Senior Counsel

About Manifold:

Manifold is grounded in a deep conviction about the future of medicine, a future in which the care for your loved one is tailored to them, not one-size-fits-all, and is informed by the care of every patient that came before. Manifold builds a next-gen clinical research platform for cancer, powered by AI. Manifold’s solutions are now in use at world-renowned institutions and cutting-edge innovators. We are ready to scale and serve more customers.

About The Role:

Manifold is looking for a Sr. Counsel to join us as the second in-house Legal team member to provide legal business partnership and support on a broad range of areas including commercial contracts, privacy and product.  This role is ideal for a solution-oriented legal professional committed to solving for the customer and excited about building for scale and growth at a mission-driven early stage company. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of on-point in-house legal experience, thrives in a fast-paced growth environment, and has a proven ability to collaborate and build trust with cross-functional teammates.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner cross-functionally with a broad range of stakeholders, including Sales, Customer Delivery, Product, Engineering, Finance, and others, to provide legal counsel and support
• Provide collaborative leadership with a keen understanding of business objectives and hurdles, while driving strategic solutions and evolution
• Structure, draft, negotiate, and review a broad range of commercial contracts, which may include, SaaS agreements, data and technology licensing agreements, business associate agreements, data protection agreements, non-disclosure agreements and various vendor, partner, supplier, marketing and other commercial agreements
• Provide legal analyses of applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidance
• Educate and develop training for a growing cross-functional team on relevant legal issues, such as data privacy
• Build for velocity and scale, which might include the development of standard templates and playbooks, as well as implementing new systems and processes
• Advise business stakeholders on various legal issues, which will include identifying, managing, and communicating risks and opportunities to a curious and empowered team
• Develop strong, trusted advisor relationships

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally gained in-house at a technology company
• J.D. from an accredited law school and current member in good standing with MA, CA, NY or other U.S. State bar
• Experience working with product and engineering teams and managing data privacy and security issues, with open source experience as a plus
• Ability to structure, draft, and negotiate an array of commercial contracts, ideally independently
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills generally, and adept at executive communications
• Proven track record for building trusted advisory relationships and providing entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented and balanced advice
• Skilled at and enjoys analytical thinking, navigating complex challenges, agile decision making and driving results
• Strong ability to handle handle a broad range of legal matters and work efficiently and effectively in a high-volume and fast-paced environment
• Dedication to superior customer-service
• Adaptable and growth mindset with a desire to learn and build
• Excited about building a scalable best-in-class legal function and mission-driven business