# Corporate Counsel **Company**: Freenome **Location**: Remote **Work arrangement**: remote **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $161,925 - $227,325 **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freenome/jobs/8812417002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_135eaa73-862 ## Description The Corporate Counsel will provide practical, business-oriented legal support for Freenome's various priorities. In this role, 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. Responsibilities: ### 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 with responsive, balanced legal guidance. ### 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 Clinical, Corporate Development, Commercial, Finance, and other 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, and coordinate with subject-matter experts when specialized advice is needed. - Prepare and maintain amendments and templates that accurately reflect entity changes, assignments, study updates, new workstreams, and agreed business terms. - Drive agreements from initial issue spotting and redlines through clean copy, signature routing, confirmation of execution, and delivery of the fully executed agreement. ### Legal Operations & Cross-Functional Partnership - Maintain accurate matter status in the contract lifecycle management system from intake through counterparty review, internal approval, signature, and closeout. - Coordinate signature workflows, confirm required approvals and signature authority, and ensure executed agreements and related records are captured in the appropriate repository. - Use and improve templates, fallback language, playbooks, and intake processes that help the business move efficiently while preserving appropriate legal controls. - Provide clear status updates, surface dependencies and open issues early, and communicate legal recommendations in practical language to business partners and legal leadership. ### Business Partnership and Risk Management - Exercise sound judgment to distinguish material legal risks from acceptable business tradeoffs, develop workable compromises, and escalate significant issues at the right time. - Counsel stakeholders on confidentiality, publications, privacy, data security, insurance, intellectual property, and other recurring contracting risks. - Collaborate with senior legal team members, internal subject-matter experts, and outside counsel on complex or specialized matters while retaining day-to-day ownership and follow-through. ### 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 is strongly preferred. - Demonstrated experience with a varied agreement portfolio, such as 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 the ability to manage multiple matters and deliver clear, actionable advice. - A practical, collaborative, and detail-oriented approach, strong ownership and urgency, and sound judgment that balances legal risk with clinical, commercial, and strategic goals. ### Benefits - The US target range of our base salary rate for new hires is $161,925 - $227,325. - You will also be eligible to receive equity, cash bonuses, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits depending on the position offered. ## Skills ### Required - contract negotiation - legal risk management - clinical trial agreements - data privacy - information security - intellectual property - publications - HIPAA compliance - contract lifecycle management - electronic signature systems ### Nice to have - in-house experience in biotech - life sciences - diagnostics - medical device - healthcare - California bar membership - Registered In-House Counsel status --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freenome/jobs/8812417002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)