Plasmidsaurus
General Counsel
San Francisco · Full-time
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About the role
- Plasmidsaurus is looking for its first full-time General Counsel to help us navigate the legal complexities of a rapidly growing, high-impact, global business.
- You'll be a key advisor to our founders and leadership team, helping us make better decisions, pursue opportunities, and identify material risks before they become costly problems.
- We're looking for a leader who we can rely on for strong commercial and corporate legal expertise, sound business judgment, and the ability to turn complicated legal questions into clear paths forward.
Responsibilities
- Advise the business. Partner with our founders and leadership team on consequential decisions, proactively identifying material legal risks and opportunities, evaluating trade-offs, and developing practical paths forward.
- Lead commercial legal matters.
- Protect our intellectual property and business interests. Partner with scientific and technical leaders to establish an effective approach to IP protection, ownership, licensing, and commercialization, leveraging specialist counsel where appropriate.
- Own corporate legal and governance matters. Support the CEO and board on governance, corporate obligations, strategic transactions, and other significant legal matters.
- Build our legal function. Establish the processes, resources, and outside counsel relationships needed to provide responsive, reliable legal support across the business, prioritizing by business impact and keeping bureaucracy and costs in check.
- Our commercial agreements and legal processes support business growth, protect our interests, and enable teams to move quickly.
- Our global corporate structure and legal approach support our current operations and future expansion, with priority cross-border and regulatory issues identified and actionable plans in place.
- Partner with our founders and leadership team on consequential decisions, proactively identifying material legal risks and opportunities, evaluating trade-offs, and developing practical paths forward.
Requirements
- You bring meaningful experience in corporate law, governance, international structures, and cross-border matters, with the range to navigate unfamiliar legal territory.
- You bring deep legal expertise, intellectual rigor, and common sense.
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Company info
- Now we are expanding that same disruptive model across all of genomics.
- With the launch of our new RNA-seq service, we are taking a bold step toward our vision to sequence everything, providing scientists everywhere with faster, simpler, and more affordable access to the data that powers discovery.
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