About Sonio

Each year 140M children are born. Birth defects affect 1 in 33 births in developed countries and in 50% of cases they are not detected during prenatal examinations. Prenatal medicine is particularly complex and the scans impose heavy responsibilities on healthcare professionals. They can also be a source of stress for future parents.

Resulting from 5 years of collaboration between world-renowned experts from Necker Hospital and Ecole Polytechnique Sonio uses artificial intelligence to improve prenatal screening and diagnosis. Based on patented algorithms and a proprietary expert database Sonio aims to become the reference tool to help practitioners improve screening reduce diagnostic errors and optimize pregnant womens medical path.

Sonios mission is to improve womens and childrens health by promoting access and quality of care through technological innovation medical expertise and collective intelligence.

About the role

You will be our first legal hire. Youll build and lead our legal functions. Youll report to our Director of People & Culture (Excom member Board observer) and work very closely with the CEO the Director of RAQA the Sales Director and other leaders/teams depending on topics. Main responsibilities are:

• Customer Contract Management (about 40%)

  • Draft review negotiate and approve customer contracts

  • Support Sales Customer Success and Product teams with contractual risk analysis.

  • Ensure alignment of customer contracts with regulatory privacy and product constraints.

• Data Privacy & Security Compliance (about 40%)

  • Develop and maintain the companys global privacy framework (HIPAA GDPR etc.).

  • Lead strategy for Sonio product privacy documents

  • Conduct and maintain key documents related to privacy and security (non-conformities RoPA etc.) as well as tools

  • Oversee data de-identification/anonymization rationales (Data collection).

  • Liaise with certification bodies (Hitrust SOC2 etc.).

  • Implement new privacy/security regulations or standards (NIS2 AI Act future medical AI regulations).

• General counsel activities (about 20%)

  • Provide legal knowledge and create a mitigation strategy for other teams based on ad-hoc needs. It could for instance cover:

    • Review product features and innovations for legal risks.

    • Data Usage and AI Model Training Documentation.

    • Manage copyright licensing and IP protection processes

    • Provide legal support for HR activities

    • Corporate governance activities

You will work cross-functionally with all teams getting strong exposure to all major topics and challenges for the company. Its a really exciting role to build

About the profile

Sonio is a mission-driven company so interest in our mission is critical. Other requirements are:

• 2-3 years of experience in privacy compliance legal counsel or risk management roles in the US you have exposure to SaaS B2B contracts & data privacy topics

• Experience drafting reviewing and negotiating B2B Software contracts with data privacy elements

• Hands-on experience with US data privacy regulations (CCPA/CPRA HIPAA) and familiarity with global regulations

• Ability to interpret and implement new regulations (AI Act NIS2)

• Solid negotiation skills and ability to manage complex contracts

• Familiarity with SaaS cloud architectures and data flows

• Strong analytical skills and risk-based decision making.

Localisation: Boston

Salary: 130k 10% - The package is flexible depending on seniority; we can share our internal if needed.

We move fast and aspire to be transparent over the process - our objective is that the process from the first chat to an offer is no longer than a month. We also aspire to give an answer to every application in a week - if you have not heard from us please follow up at

Required Experience:

Manager