Commercial Legal Counsel / Associate Legal Counsel

Do you have experience managing commercial contracts? Have you provided support and guidance through the contract legal process to stakeholders?

If this sounds like you and you are driven by purpose, Join the SOPHiA GENETICS Legal & Compliance team as a Junior Legal Counsel or Commercial Legal Counsel, and enable us to make a positive impact on the outcomes for cancer and rare disease patients worldwide.

Supporting our legal activity across North America, This role would likely suit someone with previous in-house experience, but could be suitable for a first-mover to industry with suitably strong commercial contracting exposure.

This is a hybrid (3 Days PW) opportunity at our corporate office in Boston, MA. This is not a remote role.

Our Mission

We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.

Your Mission

Reporting to the VP, Legal Affairs you will provide legal advice, support and guidance on commercial, sales and contract processes across North America.

• Overseeing the contract lifecycle process, including planning, collaboration, negotiation, execution and coordinate the signing process for contracts and other legal documents
• Support Sales & Business Development teams with their contract processes as we pursue commercial growth across North America
• Use your knowledge of commercial law to provide drafting, negotiation and business counsel to support key commercial transactions, drive projects to completiont and help mitigate legal or business risk
• Where suitable, add knoweldge of healthcare law, technology IP or Data protection to further support or enhance legal commercial processes

To be best set for success we see you bringing

•  3-5 Years PQE, Qualified Lawyer in the US
• Previous ownership of commercial processes including contract management, client negotiation and drafting
• Any industry experience related directly to revenue-generating/commercial contracts is valuable, but industry experience within Software/SaaS or Healthcare / Life Sciences is highly sought
• Knowledge of Healthcare laws and data protection/privacy is highly valueable (Sunshine law, Anti-kickback statue, False claims act, bribery act, HIPAA)

As a public organisation facing ongoing commercial growth, you will bring a success-orientated and solutions-focused mindset that embraces team collaborations, change, growth and inclusion.

You will be joining an organisation with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.

Business recognition and accolades include: 

• World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
• World's smartest companies (Top 50) 
• 100 Best Places to Work in Boston 
• Top 10 European Tech Startup
• Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
• Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch

Our benefits package is comprehensive, but varies internationally in line with local standards and laws. You can discuss a full breakdown with us, but as a brief overview of benefits in France.

• Outstanding Medical (with Telemedicine), Dental, and Vision Plan with 90% employer contributions, including $0 deductible plans options.

• Life and AD&D company provided 
• Company 4% match 401K contributions 
• Company-paid Short and long-term disability insurance 
• 20 Days PTO (Increases with tenure), 5 sick days and 13 Public holidays recognised
• FSA commuter benefits
• Supplemental employee insurance options are available for Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital and Legal 
• Voluntary Pet Insurance and Auto and Home options 
• Employer Assistance Program free for all employees

Our DNA

Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous. 

Our Virtues

At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action.

We decide; We do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.

At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal.

The Process 

Apply now with your CV and any supporting information. 

Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.

We appreciate the value and expertise external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilise agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.

Starting Date: ASAP 

Location: Boston, MA. Office-Hybrid (3 Days PW)

Contract: Permanent, Full time