Corporate Counsel

The role

The Corporate Counsel will support business growth by overseeing business development transactions and advising operations. This role involves leading and negotiating agreements and architecting the legal framework for new offerings.

What you will do

• Lead and negotiate agreements with customers, vendors, industry partners, and suppliers.
• Engage cross-functionally to provide legal advice that manages risk and enables business opportunity.
• Transact across business units by reviewing term sheets and negotiating transaction documents.
• Strengthen legal infrastructure by growing the internal repository of agreement templates and models.
• Guide commercial operations and alliance management to maintain partnerships.
• Review technical and logistical materials to support business development and program teams.
• Optimize the use of generative AI and legal technology tools to accelerate workflows.
• Work collaboratively across commercial, technical, and legal teams to support lab automation.

Required qualifications

• BA/BS degree
• JD and licensed to practice law in the United States
• 3+ years’ experience practicing law in a law firm and/or a corporation
• In-depth experience with complex transactions including software and technology agreements, licenses, material transfers, and collaborations
• Experience with general corporate transactions such as stock purchase agreements, investor agreements, and services agreements

Nice to have

• Law firm and in-house experience preferred

Benefits

• Company stock awards
• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• Health spending accounts
• Voluntary benefits
• Leave of absence policies
• 401(k) program with employer contribution
• 8 paid holidays
• Full-week winter shutdown
• Unlimited Paid Time Off policy

About the company

Ginkgo is the world leader in automation of biological workflows. The company's mission is to make biology easier to engineer.