Velsera is hiring a Senior Corporate Counsel to join our mission to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights. In this role, you will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and managing a broad range of commercial agreements, providing legal guidance on data governance and privacy regulations, and supporting corporate transactions and strategic partnerships.
What You'll Do
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of complex commercial agreements across the company’s operations.
- Structure and negotiate strategic partnerships involving data products, platform access, and cloud-based tools.
- Serve as the legal department’s primary liaison to Sales, Commercial, Program Management, Finance, GRC, Engineering, Security, and Product teams.
- Lead contract negotiations with pharmaceutical and biotech customers, including academic institutions and international counterparties.
- Draft and operationalize fallback terms, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and contract approval/escalation workflows.
- Provide product counseling and legal review for platform features, marketing language, customer onboarding, and certification programs.
- Own and evolve legal oversight of data governance models, including data mapping, platform permissions, and anonymization frameworks.
- Develop and maintain internal processes for incident response, data security breach notifications, and cross-border data flows.
- Advise internal stakeholders on compliance with global privacy regulations, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, DPF.
- Support the development and negotiation of customer-facing Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
- Lead or support legal response and remediation plans for security incidents involving vendor platforms or unauthorized access.
- Partner with HR team on employment law issues including severance agreements, independent contractor classification, and remote work policies.
- Provide legal guidance on entity formation, intercompany agreements, subsidiary oversight, and cross-border IP ownership.
- Serve as the legal project manager for internal and external corporate transactions including M&A, investor diligence, and post-acquisition integration.
- Work with external counsel and internal business leads to ensure legal obligations align with commercial goals and regulatory constraints.
- Translate legal risk into business-aligned recommendations that preserve flexibility while maintaining compliance.
- Support board-related deliverables including D&O insurance coordination, officer and director appointments, and entity recordkeeping.
- Monitor and interpret new and evolving laws relevant to the company’s operations, including digital health, life sciences, data use, and AI regulation.
- Help build and sustain a legal function that is scalable, cross-functional, and operationally embedded across a global business.
Team & Environment
You will serve as the primary legal liaison to multiple internal teams.
Work Mode
This is a global position based in the US.
