# General Counsel

**Company**: Arc Institute
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $330,000 to $400,000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

Arc Institute is seeking a General Counsel to serve as a strategic legal advisor and trusted peer to leadership. The General Counsel will help identify and execute the legal pathways that enable Arc to pursue ambitious scientific and institutional goals.

Responsibilities:

- Lead legal strategy for complex collaborations, partnerships, and institutional arrangements that advance Arc’s mission.

- Advise leadership on governance, compliance, conflicts, regulatory, and risk matters.

- Oversee legal agreements with academic, industry, nonprofit, and other strategic partners.

- Identify legal pathways that enable new initiatives while protecting the Institute’s interests.

- Support business development and strategic growth initiatives.

- Build and improve legal processes, policies, and frameworks that support speed, clarity, and responsible execution.

- Manage and develop a small legal team, which includes an existing IP & Licensing function, and supervise outside counsel as needed.

- Provide clear, practical, and independent counsel to senior operational and scientific leadership.

Requirements:

- JD and Active membership in the State Bar of California, or eligibility to practice immediately as Registered In-House Counsel in California.

- Experienced leader and member of an executive team.

- Experienced people manager with track record of mentorship and skill development.

- 15+ years of relevant legal experience including significant experience in corporate, transactional, technology transfer, engineering, life sciences, or related legal work.

- Demonstrated ability to advise senior stakeholders on complex legal and strategic matters.

- Experience leading or materially supporting high-stakes negotiations and transactions.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience structuring novel or complex legal arrangements in innovation-driven environments.

- Experience managing a team of IP professionals or supervising external IP counsel.

- Experience in biotech, life sciences, technology, or similarly fast-moving sectors.

The base salary range for this position is $330,000 to $400,000. This position is also eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus, and participants in the Institute’s Compound Cash Grant Program.

## Skills

### Required
- JD
- State Bar of California
- corporate
- transactional
- technology transfer
- life sciences

### Nice to have
- biotech
- IP professionals
- fast-moving sectors

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