Commercial Counsel

The role

The Commercial Counsel will support Twist Bioscience Corporation on contracting, licensing, product-related, and other commercial matters. This role provides legal support to the Commercial and Biopharma divisions and non-U.S. employment and corporate matters.

What you will do

• Draft, review and negotiate standard commercial, biopharma, and other legal documents.
• Draft and improve applicable AI tool playbooks using available legal operations tools.
• Manage processes and workflows governing the intake, review, and approval of commercial and biopharma agreement requests.
• Advise business and cross functional stakeholders on best practices and legal updates affecting contracting.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Required qualifications

• Fully qualified solicitor with at least 1-year PQE, or 4-7 years relevant contractual or commercial experience at a major law firm or in-house legal department at a biotech, pharma or other life scien
• Experience drafting, negotiating and managing a high volume of commercial and pharma agreements, including tenders.
• Experience in reviewing, negotiating and closing tenders across the globe.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• The ability to manage outside counsel and assess when consultation with outside counsel is appropriate.
• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• The ability to prioritize and manage multiple tight deadlines in a fast-paced business environment.
• Excellent judgment in assessing risks and benefits.
• Creative problem solver.
• Hands-on and collaborative working style.
• Experience building for scale.

Nice to have

• Fluent in Mandarin (written and spoken).
• Familiarity with synthetic biology and sequencing products and processes, drug development landscape, antibody therapies, and personalized medicine.
• Basic understanding of employment and/or corporate law.

About the company

Twist Bioscience synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. Their silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to customers in fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage.