Counsel / Associate Director, Sr. Counsel

What you'll do

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial, technology, research, vendor, and compute agreements; advise business and R&D teams.
• Build and improve contract templates, playbooks, trainings, approval workflows, and CLM tooling.
• Deploy AI tools in Legal to accelerate contract review, drafting, research, and knowledge management.

What they ask for

• 2–7+ years practicing law, with law firm and in-house experience or exclusively in-house experience.
• J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and admission in good standing to at least one State bar, preferably California, or eligibility for California registered in-house counsel status.
• Demonstrated track record drafting and negotiating commercial and technology agreements at volume, with increasing independence.
• Proven use of AI tools in legal practice, including contract review and drafting, research, and workflow automation, with sound judgment about their limits and appropriate use.

Nice to have

• Life sciences or biotech experience and comfort working directly with scientists and engineers.
• Familiarity with data use and acquisition agreements, AI/ML legal issues, cloud and compute contracting, open source licensing, employment matters, immigration coordination, or CLM/legal workflow tools.

Pay

USD 204,000 - 240,000 base salary

Tools

AI tools, CLM

AI focus

Uses and deploys AI tools in legal practice to accelerate contract review, drafting, research, workflow automation, and knowledge management; may advise on AI/ML legal issues.