Legal Counsel II

As our Legal Counsel II you will provide legal support to the company by offering recommendations on best practices in areas such as intellectual property, including copyright and trademark protection for company icons and branding. Additionally, ensure compliance with global data privacy and data protection regulations, while supporting product development, particularly in the use of data for AI/ML features, and addressing general legal matters. Further, deliver comprehensive legal assistance for Go-To-Market and commercial activities, negotiating and closing various SaaS-related agreements, such as MSAs, DPAs, order forms, and security exhibits, leveraging experience with Fortune 500 companies and global universities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Facilitate Go-To-Market (GTM) deal closings and renewals with prompt legal review and support, enabling the Director of Legal to focus on strategic company objectives, within the first 4 weeks.
• Oversee legal operational matters, including administering our IronClad platform, collaborating with the Deal Desk lead, coordinating contract signatures, and managing vendor review requests within the first 2 months.
• Serve as the go-to legal expert for intellectual property (IP), privacy, GTM, and product support, providing key insights and guidance across these critical areas.
• Analyze, update, and optimize the legal playbook, specifically focusing on licensing, agreement negotiation, and other key policies, within the first 3 months.
• Offer broad legal support across all company departments, including security, corporate, employment, and engineering, ensuring comprehensive legal coverage as needed.

Responsible for:

1. Intellectual Property:  Advise and provide best practices on IP matters, particularly with copyrights, brand protection and proactive measures for marketplace monitoring and enforcement of BioRender IP.
2. Commercial:  Provide contract review support for new and renewal deals, including contract drafting and negotiation of NDA’s, SSA’s, DPA’s and review of order confirmations and quotes and any customer-provided paperwork.
3. Privacy:  Identify and resolve gaps in our global data privacy compliance requirements.
4. Procurement:  Provide contract support for procurement requests for new and existing vendors, including contract negotiation of NDA’s, MSA’s, DPA’s and review of vendor order forms and other vendor-provided paperwork.
5. Contracts:  Maintain our contract management system (IronClad) and assist with contract intake and repository management, including obligation tracking. Coordinate signatures in Docusign for all documents requiring signatures.
6. Legal Support: Provide assistance to our Customer Experience team by addressing licensing inquiries and responding to ad hoc legal matters.
7. Corporate:  Assist with maintaining our corporate organizational documents and assist with general corporate legal matters including equity administration and other duties, as needed.
8. Enablement:  Provide enablement/training for new Sales, CS and CX members on legal processes.  Maintain and build out our internal Legal resource pages in Notion.
9. Legal Operations:  Identify and provide solutions for any inefficiencies or gaps with our legal processes and provide solutions.
10. Collaboration:  Collaborate with cross-functional teams on various projects and initiatives.

What we value:

• 5-10 years (Attorney) of in-house SaaS legal experience, particularly with IP, Commercial and Procurement support, Privacy, Product counseling.
• Has strong personal success as a cross-functional team player
• US or Canada-based with global experience.