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
What We Do
Manifold Group is a venture holding company combining an advisory firm, venture fund, and incubation and acceleration studio all under one roof. With expertise in driving growth for companies at all stages of maturity, transforming legacy businesses, and new venture identification and scaling, Manifold Group represents a modern approach to sustainable value creation. Learn more about Manifold Group at www.manifold.group.
