General Counsel

The role

You will advise founders and leadership on legal risks, commercial matters, and global corporate strategy. You will lead negotiations, protect intellectual property, and build a lean legal function to support a growing biotech business.

What you will do

• Advise the business and leadership on consequential decisions and legal risks
• Structure, draft, and negotiate customer, supplier, technology, and strategic partnership agreements
• Guide global corporate strategy including international operations and entity structures
• Partner with technical leaders to establish approaches to IP protection and commercialization
• Navigate regulatory and compliance matters including data privacy and export controls
• Support the CEO and board on governance and corporate obligations
• Build the legal function and establish outside counsel relationships

Required qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school
• Active membership in good standing with a U.S. state bar
• Experienced working in life sciences, biotechnology, scientific services, or another technically complex or regulated industry, or able to demonstrate strong judgment navigating unfamiliar technical a

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, biotechnology, or another technically complex or regulated industry

About the company

Plasmidsaurus is a biotech company providing sequencing services to scientists. They are expanding their disruptive sequencing model across all of genomics.