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Legal Counsel, Reports To Chief Operating Officer / Chief Executive Officer
Singapore (Hybrid), Full-Time, Permanent, Senior (Individual Contributor) - First In-House Legal Hire
Date Issued: May 2026
Ajentik is a Singapore-based AI company building Elderwise - an agentic AI care-coordination platform that bridges hospital to home for older adults, caregivers, and clinical teams. The platform automates geriatric assessments, surfaces clinical insights, supports ageing in place, and connects patients, caregivers, and care teams across the continuum of care.
Ajentik was selected as a Harvard Top 10 Venture and incubated at NUS Enterprise. The platform is deployed across 30+ healthcare organisations globally, with documented reductions in administrative burden of up to 70% and measurable improvements in patient-care efficiency. As the business scales internationally, Ajentik is investing in a dedicated in-house legal function to underpin commercial growth, protect its intellectual property and clinical content assets, and bring practical legal structure to a fast-moving, regulated environment.
This is a newly created position and Ajentik's first dedicated in-house legal hire. The Legal Counsel will build the contracting and intellectual property foundations of the business, partner closely with leadership, commercial, clinical, and engineering teams, and bring practical legal structure to a fast-moving healthcare-AI environment.
The role is hands-on, with commercial contracts and IP / trademarks as the core pillars. The successful candidate will also coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, support healthcare and data privacy compliance across Ajentik's global deployments, and provide broader legal advisory support to the leadership team.
One-line summary: a hands-on senior commercial lawyer who builds contracting and IP foundations, partners with leadership and clinical/commercial teams, and brings practical legal structure to a fast-growing, globally deployed healthcare-AI business.
Draft, review, and negotiate the full range of commercial agreements that Ajentik enters into - including SaaS and platform agreements with hospitals and health systems, partner and reseller arrangements with care providers, clinician and clinical-advisor agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, SLAs, and vendor/services contracts.
Build and manage Ajentik's standard Data Processing Agreement (DPA), Business Associate Agreement (BAA) for US healthcare counterparties, and equivalent cross-border data-sharing arrangements.
Provide pragmatic, business-aligned positions on liability, indemnities, IP ownership, data, AI/model use, term, termination, and dispute resolution - calibrated to the realities of selling into hospitals, payers, and health systems.
Support Commercial / Business Development through the deal lifecycle, from term sheets and structuring through to signature, and act as a trusted point of contact for go-to-market teams.
Track contract risk, key obligations, renewals, and deviations from standard positions.
Own day-to-day intellectual property work across Ajentik's brand, Elderwise product, clinical content, AI models, and software assets.
Manage Ajentik's global trademark portfolio - filings, prosecution, renewals, oppositions, and watch services - working with IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) and external agents, including under the Madrid Protocol where applicable.
Draft and negotiate IP clauses in commercial deals - including ownership, licensing, sub-licensing, derivative works, training-data and model-output rights, brand use, and assignment provisions.
Handle licensing and brand/content use permissions for healthcare partners, clinical collaborators, and third parties.
Coordinate IP enforcement actions (e.g., takedowns, cease-and-desist, infringement matters) with external counsel.
Advise Product, Clinical, Marketing, and Partnerships teams on IP protection, clearance, and safe use of third-party content, datasets, and clinical references.
Support compliance with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), GDPR, US HIPAA / HITECH, and other applicable privacy and health-data regimes across Ajentik's deployment markets.
Advise on healthcare-specific regulatory considerations (e.g., Singapore MOH and HSA guidance, telehealth, clinical decision support, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) where relevant) and coordinate specialist external counsel as required.
Translate evolving AI and digital health regulations (e.g., the IMDA Model AI Governance Framework, AI Verify, the EU AI Act, and equivalent regimes) into practical internal positions, contract terms, and customer-facing documentation.
Support data-flow mapping, cross-border transfer assessments, DPIAs, and patient-data handling reviews for new features and deployments.
Build and maintain a clean, scalable contracting workflow - templates, fallback positions, playbooks, intake forms, and approval matrices - so commercial, clinical, and operations teams can move faster while staying within agreed risk tolerances.
Document Ajentik's standard legal positions and negotiation guardrails for the most common contract types (SaaS, BAA / DPA, partner, reseller, vendor, NDA).
Establish lightweight legal-ops practices appropriate for an early-stage in-house function (intake, triage, prioritisation, signature workflows, contract storage and retrieval).
Coordinate external counsel across Ajentik's key deployment markets on contentious, regulatory, healthcare, IP, and specialist matters - scoping work, instructing, budgeting, and reviewing deliverables.
Build and maintain a panel of trusted external advisors across Singapore, the US, and other priority jurisdictions.
Support cross-border commercial deals, partner arrangements, regulatory queries, and entity / structuring matters in collaboration with external counsel.
Support broader legal and compliance matters arising from Ajentik's cross-border operations - including employment, consumer protection, marketing and content compliance, basic corporate / governance support, and financing-related legal work.
Track relevant legal, healthcare, and AI regulatory developments and translate them into practical guidance for the business.
Act as a trusted advisor and sounding board for leadership on legal risk, escalation, and dispute-avoidance strategy.
Legal experience within a corporate or in-house environment is required. Admission as a qualified lawyer in Singapore or another Commonwealth jurisdiction is a bonus but not mandatory. A master's degree in law, or equivalent advanced legal qualification, is preferred.
Minimum 2 to 5 years of relevant legal experience level and remuneration will be calibrated according to experience.
Strong commercial contracting experience, with confident drafting and negotiation skills across SaaS / technology contracts, customer agreements (ideally with enterprise or regulated buyers), NDAs, SLAs, vendor and services contracts, and partner/referral arrangements.
IP and trademarks experience is essential - including hands-on trademark portfolio management (filings, renewals, oppositions, watch services), advising stakeholders on IP protection and usage, and coordinating enforcement with external counsel.
Working knowledge of data-protection law - at minimum the Singapore PDPA - and the ability to draft and negotiate DPAs / data-sharing arrangements exposure to HIPAA / BAAs or GDPR is highly valued given Ajentik's global healthcare footprint.
Comfortable being the first dedicated in-house legal hire - able to work independently, prioritise, and set up simple, fit-for-purpose processes from scratch.
Strong legal drafting, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with sound commercial judgement and the temperament to operate in a regulated, fast-moving environment.
Industry experience in healthcare, digital health, health-tech, medical devices, life sciences, or adjacent regulated technology sectors.
Working knowledge of the Singapore PDPA and at least one other major privacy regime - ideally GDPR and/or US HIPAA / HITECH, given Ajentik's deployment footprint.
Familiarity with hospital / health-system commercial contracting, Business Associate Agreements, telehealth, or Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) regulatory considerations.
Exposure to AI / agentic AI products, model and data licensing, training-data rights, and AI governance frameworks (IMDA Model AI Governance Framework, AI Verify, EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001).
Cross-border experience, including managing and coordinating multiple external counsel across jurisdictions (Singapore, US, and other Ajentik deployment markets).
Experience setting up or improving contract lifecycle management (CLM), trademark management, or legal-ops tooling for a growing business.
Experience supporting an early-stage / venture-backed company through commercial scaling and/or financing rounds.
Commercial Drafting & Negotiation: confident, precise drafting and pragmatic negotiation across a broad range of commercial agreements.
IP Mindset: instinctively spots IP, brand, content, and trademark issues and protects them through contracts, filings, and enforcement.
Builder Orientation: comfortable building processes, templates, and playbooks from scratch in an environment without an existing legal team.
Commercial Judgement: understands business drivers, deal economics, and competitive dynamics calibrates legal risk advice accordingly.
Stakeholder Management: clear written and verbal communication able to act as a credible point of contact for leadership, commercial teams, and external counsel.
Integrity & Independence: upholds professional ethics and the role of in-house counsel as both partner and gatekeeper.
Core contracting templates and playbooks in place - covering SaaS, customer (hospital / health-system), partner/reseller, vendor/services, NDA, DPA, and Business Associate Agreement (BAA) - with measurable improvement in cycle time and consistency.
Trademark portfolio reviewed, reconciled, and actively managed, with a clean renewals calendar and watch services operational across priority jurisdictions for the Ajentik and Elderwise brands.
IP and AI-related clauses (model use, output rights, training-data treatment) standardised across commercial deals clear internal guidance issued on third-party content, clinical references, and brand use.
Lightweight contracting workflow rolled out across the business - intake, triage, approval matrix, signature, and storage - and adopted by commercial, clinical, and operations teams.
External counsel panel established across Ajentik's priority jurisdictions (Singapore, US, and other deployment markets), with clear scoping, instructions, and budgets.
Baseline privacy posture documented - covering PDPA, GDPR, and HIPAA / BAA practices - with key cross-border data and operational risks identified, prioritised, and mitigated.
Healthcare / AI regulatory register established and monitored, with translated internal positions for each applicable regime.
Trusted advisor status established with leadership, commercial, clinical, and engineering stakeholders.
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer (or such other senior leader as Ajentik may designate at offer stage).
Key internal stakeholders: Leadership, Commercial / Business Development, Partnerships, Clinical, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, and People & Talent.
Key external stakeholders: hospitals, health systems, clinical partners, healthcare regulators, external counsel across jurisdictions, trademark and IP agents, vendors, investors, and industry bodies.
Based in Singapore. Hybrid working arrangement in line with company policy.
Employment terms in accordance with the Singapore Employment Act, MOM guidelines, and applicable statutory entitlements (annual leave, sick leave, public holidays, CPF, etc.).
The successful candidate must have, or be eligible to obtain, the right to work in Singapore. Work pass sponsorship may be considered for exceptional candidates, subject to MOM eligibility criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring, promotion, and employment decisions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs, without regard to race, religion, nationality, age, gender, marital status, family responsibilities, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable Singapore law and the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices.
Interested candidates are invited to submit a CV and a short cover note. Highlighting, if any, any (i) representative commercial contracting matters, (ii) IP / trademarks experience, including portfolio management (iii) any healthcare, health-tech, or regulated-industry exposure, and (iv) cross-border / multi-jurisdiction work.
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