Corporate Counsel, Evidence - job 2 of 2

About the role:

We're looking for a Corporate Counsel to help us accomplish our mission to improve lives by learning from the experience of every cancer patient. Here's what you need to know about the role, our team and why Flatiron Health is the right next step in your career. 

In this role, you'll work with the Legal, Privacy & Compliance team to provide legal and strategic support across the company. Reporting to the Associate General Counsel, you'll work efficiently to drive our business forward while maintaining high standards for professionalism and compliance. This role will provide product, regulatory, commercial and compliance support to our Life Sciences and Clinical Research teams. This role may also support associated business development and partnership activities, as well as other legal matters that inevitably arise throughout our day. Working collaboratively with other members of the department, this role will work across the company to identify needs, advise and counsel clients, and execute on contracts and processes to allow Flatiron’s business to grow. This role will be based in our New York City offices. Full time remote working is also possible.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with various teams within Flatiron, including Life Sciences Partnerships, Clinical Research, Business Development, Finance, and others to provide strategic and legal guidance on matters associated with Flatiron’s research activities, including transactional, intellectual property, contractual and regulatory areas 
• Lead, from beginning to end, the structuring, drafting, reviewing, negotiating and closing of corporate and commercial transactions, including services, licensing, collaboration, partnership, clinical trials, SaaS, data use and consulting agreements and related documents. The successful attorney in this role will manage a diverse scope of contracting issues, and identify and evaluate many business and legal issues simultaneously
• Represent the needs and concerns of Flatiron when interacting with regulators, clients, study sponsors, trial sites, vendors, and other partners
• Provide creative, practical and principled legal solutions for all areas of the business
• Continually review and analyze legal risks and opportunities to Flatiron from the changing regulatory and competitive environments
• Assist with a broad range of other healthcare regulatory matters including monitoring the enforcement environment, client training, and compliance policy development 
• Develop and maintain updated template agreements that reflect Flatiron’s new and evolving products and services
• Build training and other processes to allow Flatiron’s teams to execute within a clear legal framework

You’ll work closely with the Associate General Counsel, other members of the Legal, Privacy & Compliance department and a cross-functional team to work across the company to identify needs, advise and counsel clients, and allow Flatiron’s business to grow.

About you:

You're a resourceful attorney with 4-7 years of significant legal experience representing healthcare or life sciences companies. You're excited by the prospect of rolling up your sleeves to tackle meaningful problems each and every day. You’re a kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who seeks and gives candid feedback, and values the chance to make an important impact. 

• You have a JD Degree and are a member and in good standing of any State Bar
• You have the ability to work independently and exercise excellent judgment
• You have solid comprehension of regulatory framework and regulatory issues for clinical studies 
• You have practical experience advising on legal and contractual issues for clinical development and clinical studies
• You have extraordinary interpersonal skills and ability to provide sound, clear and succinct legal advice and analysis to legal and business teams in both verbal and written forms
• You have the ability to multitask, work under tight time pressures, prioritize work, and react quickly to changing business needs and demands all in a fast-paced, high-growth business environment
• You have a demonstrated track record of being a team-player and working collaboratively
• You have the ability to maintain an independent and objective perspective while developing and maintaining a strong partnership with the client organizations
• You are an intellectually nimble thinker and highly adaptable
• You have a passion for helping the world beat cancer

If this sounds like you, you'll fit right in at Flatiron. 

Extra Credit:

• You have trained within the life sciences or health care transactional or regulatory departments of a top-tier law firm
• You have experience working in the legal department at a life sciences company, academic medical center, health system, federal health-related and/or research grant agency, or clinical research funder or sponsor