Senior Product Counsel, Benchling
$209.9-283.9k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Posted today
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$209.9-283.9k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology and empower their global customers to get to milestones & market faster.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a mission-driven, collaborative, and highly motivated individual to join Benchling as a critical member of the legal team
- The right person for this role must be a team player who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment and able to balance legal risk with business objectives
- You are also intellectually curious and proactively seek ways for the legal team to impact the business
- J.D. from an accredited law school and membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California Bar preferred or ability to register as in-house counsel in California)
- 5-7+ years of relevant legal experience, with a mix of in-house at a SaaS or technology company and law firm experience
- Proven experience counseling engineers and product managers, and fluency in enterprise software, data security, and intellectual property
- Strong understanding of rapidly developing AI regulations and best practices,
- Strong understanding of open-source licensing issues
- Familiarity with global privacy frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA),
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to distill complex legal concepts into actionable advice and advocate for a position while maintaining a collaborative and open-minded approach
- Highly organized, prioritizes appropriately, reliable, detail-oriented, and diligent
- Proven ability to provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented advice
- Committed to continuous improvement, scalability, and operational excellence
- Have a growth mindset and practice with kindness, humility, integrity, and humor
- Nice to have: Experience working with or interest in learning about biotech or life sciences-related products and services and GxP regulatory frameworks
What the job involves
- As Senior Product Counsel, you will be a trusted advisor to our engineering, product, design, and security teams
- Your ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and operate as a strategic, solutions-oriented business partner will be crucial to your success
- This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of our product offerings
- You will address legal risks, design scalable processes, and ensure the seamless integration of legal and regulatory requirements into the company's product and business strategies
- Partner with product, engineering, and design teams to provide guidance on legal issues related to product design, development, and operations, with specific attention to data protection, privacy, IP protection, and open source
- Develop and maintain legal processes and documentation to support new product and other business initiatives
- Collaborate on the development and deployment of AI features, ensuring responsible AI use, compliance with AI regulations, and alignment with industry best practices
- Act as a point of contact for customers, including large global biopharma companies, to address legal questions regarding product features
- Work closely with security and IT teams to support security initiatives, incident response plans, frameworks, and requirements
- Monitor and advise on regulatory and industry developments, including trends in security and privacy laws, regulatory guidance, enforcement actions, and public policy
- Advise on IP strategy, including patents and open-source issues
- Work with engineering and product teams to identify and develop opportunities for patent applications through our invention disclosure program and help drive the patent application process up to filing
- Partner with outside counsel to manage patent portfolios and protect IP assets
- Develop and implement processes to ensure compliance with open-source licensing obligations
- Guide compliance with sector-specific regulations impacting SaaS and biopharma industries
- Be a trusted advisor to senior R&D leadership, providing actionable insights on the intersection of law, technology, and business strategy
- Partner with teams to educate and train employees on legal risks and compliance best practices
- Support privacy team in maintaining our privacy program
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. Off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.9m
Company benefits
- 4 months paid parental leave
- 401k plan
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% premiums covered for health, dental, & vision
- Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
Company values
- Constant Curiosity - Like the scientists we serve, we approach life with a sense of constant curiosity
- Scientist First - We’re relentlessly focused on taking a scientist-first approach
- Impact Driven - We commit our time, energy, and resources to efforts that will drive maximum impact
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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