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Salary: USD 161,925 - 227,325 / annual
Freenome seeks a Corporate Counsel to provide practical, business-oriented legal support across clinical, commercial, research, technology and strategic partnership priorities. You will draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements, advise cross-functional teams on legal risk, and manage matters from intake through signature and closeout. You will partner closely with Clinical, Commercial, Corporate Development, Procurement, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, InfoSec, Product and Engineering teams. The role reports to the Director, Corporate Counsel.
Key responsibilities include:
**Commercial & Strategic Contracting:** Draft, review and negotiate commercial, vendor, professional services, technology, software, data, confidentiality and strategic collaboration agreements. Advise on contract structure and risk allocation, including liability, indemnification, insurance, intellectual property, publications, data security, payment and termination terms. Translate business objectives into clear contract terms, coordinate internal review and approvals, and move negotiations forward with counterparties. Support strategic partnerships, commercialization initiatives, health-system collaborations and other business-critical programs.
**Clinical, Research and Healthcare Agreements:** Draft and negotiate clinical trial and site agreements, amendments, material transfer agreements, research and collaboration agreements, business associate agreements and data-sharing terms. Partner with stakeholders to align scopes, budgets, payment terms, specimen use, publication rights and intellectual property provisions. Identify and address healthcare, privacy and compliance issues, including HIPAA and data-security requirements. Prepare and maintain amendments and templates reflecting entity changes, assignments, study updates and agreed business terms. Drive agreements from initial issue spotting through clean copy, signature routing and delivery of fully executed agreements.
**Legal Operations & Cross-Functional Partnership:** Maintain accurate matter status in contract lifecycle management systems from intake through closeout. Coordinate signature workflows, confirm required approvals and signature authority, and ensure executed agreements are captured in appropriate repositories. Use and improve templates, fallback language, playbooks and intake processes. Provide clear status updates, surface dependencies and open issues early, and communicate legal recommendations in practical language.
**Business Partnership and Risk Management:** Exercise sound judgment to distinguish material legal risks from acceptable business tradeoffs and develop workable compromises. Counsel stakeholders on confidentiality, publications, privacy, data security, insurance and intellectual property. Collaborate with senior legal team members, internal subject-matter experts and outside counsel on complex matters while retaining day-to-day ownership.
**Requirements:**
- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one state bar (California preferred, or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel status)
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex agreements
- In-house experience in biotech, life sciences, diagnostics, medical device or healthcare strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience with varied agreement portfolios: MSAs, SOWs, vendor and technology agreements, NDAs, clinical trial agreements, MTAs, research collaborations and data-related agreements
- Working knowledge of life sciences and healthcare contracting issues, including clinical research, HIPAA and data privacy, information security, publications and intellectual property allocation
- Hands-on experience using contract lifecycle management and electronic-signature systems to track matters, route approvals and signatures, and maintain reliable executed records
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, project-management and communication skills, with ability to manage multiple matters and deliver clear, actionable advice
- Practical, collaborative and detail-oriented approach with strong ownership, urgency and sound judgment balancing legal risk with clinical, commercial and strategic goals
