Corporate Counsel/Senior Corporate Counsel, Transactions

The role

This attorney will provide contracting support for Beam's transition to a commercial stage company. The role involves partnering with medical affairs, commercial, and manufacturing teams to negotiate complex agreements.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate high-stakes agreements for anticipated product launches.
• Assist with legal review of pre-commercial activities including advisory boards and patient engagement.
• Provide legal support to promotional material review committees.
• Provide ongoing contracting support and lifecycle management for commercial, medical affairs, and manufacturing teams.
• Collaborate with business teams on contracting playbooks and standards.
• Draft and negotiate licensing agreements, collaborations, clinical trial agreements, and sponsored research agreements.

Required qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school
• Admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• Typically 15+ years of experience
• 5+ years of experience with complex biotechnology contracting
• Ability to manage multiple, overlapping, high-stakes agreements to completion on tight timelines
• Flexible, must be able to work collaboratively with team members for a diverse range of projects
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Sound judgement and ability to quickly analyze different sources of information
• Practical and business-minded
• Exceptional and demonstrated written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience advising medical affairs and commercial teams on legal and regulatory legal requirements related to product launches
• Ability to provide legal counsel on health care laws, such as anti-kickback, false claims and transparency statutes
• Service on promotional material review committees for pre-commercial or commercial biotechnology companies

About the company

Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company committed to establishing the leading, fully integrated platform for precision genetic medicines. The company uses base editing technology to advance a diversified portfolio of base editing programs.