Corporate Counsel

What You’ll Do:

Commercial & Strategic Contracting

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial, vendor, professional services, technology, software, data, confidentiality, and strategic collaboration agreements.
• Advise on contract structure and risk allocation, including liability, indemnification, insurance, intellectual property, publications, data security, payment, and termination terms.
• Translate business objectives into clear contract terms, coordinate internal review and approvals, and move negotiations forward with counterparties.
• Support strategic partnerships, commercialization initiatives, health-system collaborations, and other business-critical programs with responsive, balanced legal guidance.

Clinical, Research, and Healthcare Agreements

• Draft and negotiate clinical trial and site agreements, amendments, material transfer agreements, research and collaboration agreements, business associate agreements, and data-sharing terms.
• Partner with Clinical, Corporate Development, Commercial, Finance, and other stakeholders to align scopes, budgets, payment terms, specimen use, publication rights, and intellectual property provisions.
• Identify and address healthcare, privacy, and compliance issues, including HIPAA and data-security requirements, and coordinate with subject-matter experts when specialized advice is needed.
• Prepare and maintain amendments and templates that accurately reflect entity changes, assignments, study updates, new workstreams, and agreed business terms.
• Drive agreements from initial issue spotting and redlines through clean copy, signature routing, confirmation of execution, and delivery of fully executed agreements.

Legal Operations & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Maintain accurate matter status in the contract lifecycle management system from intake through counterparty review, internal approval, signature, and closeout.
• Coordinate signature workflows, confirm required approvals and signature authority, and ensure executed agreements and related records are captured in the appropriate repository.
• Use and improve templates, fallback language, playbooks, and intake processes that help the business move efficiently while preserving appropriate legal controls.
• Provide clear status updates, surface dependencies and open issues early, and communicate legal recommendations in practical language to business partners and legal leadership.

Business Partnership and Risk Management

• Exercise sound judgment to distinguish material legal risks from acceptable business trade-offs, develop workable compromises, and escalate significant issues at the right time.
• Counsel stakeholders on confidentiality, publications, privacy, data security, insurance, and intellectual property and other recurring contracting risks.
• Collaborate with senior legal team members, internal subject-matter experts, and outside counsel on complex or specialized matters while retaining day-to-day ownership and follow-through.

Must Haves:

• A JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one state bar (California preferred, or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel status).
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex agreements; in-house experience in biotech, life sciences, diagnostics, medical device, or healthcare is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with a varied agreement portfolio, such as MSAs, SOWs, vendor and technology agreements, NDAs, clinical trial agreements, MTAs, research collaborations, and data-related agreements.
• Working knowledge of life sciences and healthcare contracting issues, including clinical research, HIPAA and data privacy, information security, publications, and intellectual property allocation.
• Hands-on experience using contract lifecycle management and electronic-signature systems to track matters, route approvals and signatures, and maintain reliable executed records.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, project-management, and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple matters and deliver clear, actionable advice.
• A practical, collaborative, and detail-oriented approach, strong ownership and urgency, and sound judgment that balances legal risk with clinical, commercial, and strategic goals.