Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Counsel, Commercial (Health and Life Sciences)

• Focus: Commercial legal support for life sciences transactions in a technology environment

• Work mode: Hybrid in the US (San Francisco, CA); remote candidates considered; relocation assistance available

Description

You will serve as a legal partner for business transactions, partnerships, and operations, with a focus on life sciences. The role involves drafting, structuring, and negotiating complex commercial agreements with enterprise customers, vendors, and strategic partners, while coordinating issues across intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and product use. You will also help scale contracting through templates, playbooks, processes, and training.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to teams such as Go-to-Market, Partnerships, and Research

• Lead negotiations and manage multiple stakeholders, escalating consequential issues with clear options and recommendations

• Identify and coordinate legal issues involving intellectual property, privacy, security, regulatory requirements, and product use

• Develop and improve contracting templates, playbooks, processes, and training

• Monitor and advise on regulatory and compliance matters affecting AI and technology in life sciences

• Collaborate with global legal colleagues to ensure alignment across jurisdictions

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant legal experience, including substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements

• Experience with life sciences transactions

• Familiarity with HIPAA and transactions involving health data

• Ability to translate legal and commercial complexity into clear, actionable advice for business stakeholders and senior leaders

• Sound judgment, ownership, and ability to move matters forward when facts are incomplete or circumstances change

• Strong cross-functional trust-building and communication

• Enjoy improving processes and creating practical tools to help a growing team scale

• Curiosity about technology and motivation to learn about AI and its commercial implications

Benefits

• Hybrid work with office presence (and remote candidates considered)

• Relocation assistance for new employees

• Opportunity to negotiate high-impact agreements and help build scalable frameworks for responsible growth