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Overview

Senior Corporate Counsel - Contract - US Remote

About Velsera

Velsera, founded in 2023 through the collaboration of Seven Bridges and Pierian, aims to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights in the field of medicine.

We provide software and professional services for :

• AI-powered multimodal data harmonization and analytics for drug discovery and development
• IVD development, validation, and regulatory approval
• Clinical NGS interpretation, reporting, and adoption

Headquartered in Boston, MA, we are expanding our teams globally.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, data sharing, collaborations, resale, and confidentiality agreements.
• Structure and negotiate strategic partnerships involving data products, platform access, and cloud-based tools.
• Serve as the primary legal liaison to various internal teams such as Sales, Finance, Engineering, and Product.
• Lead contract negotiations with pharmaceutical and biotech clients, including academic and international partners.
• Develop fallback terms, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and approval workflows.
• Provide legal review for platform features, marketing, customer onboarding, and data access tools.
• Manage legal aspects of data governance, including data mapping, permissions, anonymization, and consent.
• Establish internal processes for incident response, breach notifications, and cross-border data flows involving sensitive data.
• Advise on compliance with privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and others.
• Negotiate Data Processing Agreements, Business Associate Agreements, and data transfer mechanisms.
• Support legal response plans for security incidents involving vendor platforms and data security.
• Partner with HR on employment law issues, including remote work policies and international hiring.
• Provide legal guidance on entity formation, intercompany agreements, and governance for U.S. and international entities.
• Manage legal aspects of corporate transactions like M&A, diligence, and post-acquisition integration.
• Coordinate with external counsel to ensure legal compliance with business objectives and regulations.
• Translate legal risks into business recommendations to maintain flexibility and compliance.
• Support board-related activities such as D&O insurance and entity recordkeeping.
• Monitor and interpret evolving laws affecting digital health, data use, and AI regulation.
• Contribute to building a scalable, cross-functional legal team integrated into the global business.

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