Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo Bioworks

Corporate Counsel

Boston, Massachusetts · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$144k-$217kDetected 21 days ago
LLMsBusiness DevelopmentLogisticsProcurementHRRoboticsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationTime ManagementAdaptability

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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About the role

  • Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more.
  • Candidates should have enthusiasm for exploring with internal clients business-oriented solutions to problems, in a manner that incorporates sound legal advice.

Requirements

  • 3+ years' experience practicing law in a law firm and/or a corporation
  • Ginkgo has implemented a return to office policy effective October 1, 2025 with required in-office days 5x per week.
  • BA/BS degree
  • JD and licensed to practice law in the United States
  • Expectation to be on-site 5 days/week
  • Lead and negotiate a wide range of agreements with customers, vendors, industry partners, and suppliers-including hardware purchasing agreements, collaboration and licensing agreements, software and SaaS agreements, master service agreements, material transfer agreements, and procurement contracts.
  • Engage cross-functionally with business development, commercial operations, finance, human resources, and technical program teams to provide balanced legal advice that manages risk while enabling business opportunity in a compliant manner.
  • Transact across our several business units by reviewing term sheets, conducting diligence activities, and drafting and negotiating transaction documents from start to finish.
  • Strengthen Ginkgo's legal infrastructure by growing our internal repository of agreement templates, models, guidances, and professional development materials.
  • Guide commercial operations and alliance management to establish and maintain strong partnerships with existing customers, collaborators, and strategic counterparts.
  • Review technical and logistical materials to support our business development and program teams, ensuring compliance across associated transactions and new offerings.
  • Optimize the responsible use of generative AI and other legal technology tools to accelerate and systematize workflows, while managing multiple deals and matters simultaneously in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

Nice to have

  • Grounded expertise with a minimum of 3 years working as a lawyer in a legal environment, with a JD required
  • years of experience in a high-pressure law firm setting will be considered when determining minimum experience.
  • Law firm and in-house experience preferred.

Skills

  • Ginkgo Introduction:
  • Ginkgo is the world leader in automation of biological workflows.

Compensation

  • The base salary range for this role is $144,400-$217,200.

Benefits

  • It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.

Company info

  • Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
  • Ginkgo Introduction: Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer.
  • Some teams may require to be onsite 4-5 days per week and this will be discussed as part of the interview process.
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