Corporate Counsel, Freenome
$161.9-227.3k
+Equity, cash bonuses
Biological analysis platform for cancer
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Biological analysis platform for cancer
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$161.9-227.3k
+Equity, cash bonuses
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create tools that empower everyone to prevent, detect, and treat their disease.
Role
Who you are
- JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one state bar (California preferred, or eligible for Registered In-House Counsel status)
- 5+ years of relevant legal experience, with substantial responsibility for drafting and negotiating complex agreements; in-house experience in biotech, life sciences, diagnostics, medical device or healthcare is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience with a varied agreement portfolio, such as MSAs, SOWs, vendor and technology agreements, NDAs, clinical trial agreements, MTAs, research collaborations and data-related agreements
- Working knowledge of life sciences and healthcare contracting issues, including clinical research, HIPAA and data privacy, information security, publications and intellectual property allocation
- Hands-on experience using contract lifecycle management and electronic-signature systems to track matters, route approvals and signatures, and maintain reliable executed records
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, project-management and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple matters and deliver clear, actionable advice
- A practical, collaborative and detail-oriented approach, strong ownership and urgency, and sound judgment that balances legal risk with clinical, commercial and strategic goals
What the job involves
- The Corporate Counsel will provide practical, business-oriented legal support for Freenome's clinical, commercial, research, technology and strategic partnership priorities
- In this role, you will draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements, advise cross-functional teams on legal risk, and manage matters from intake through signature and closeout
- You will partner closely with Clinical, Commercial, Corporate Development, Procurement, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, InfoSec, Product and Engineering. The role reports to the Director, Corporate Counsel
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad portfolio of commercial, vendor, professional services, technology, software, data, confidentiality and strategic collaboration agreements
- Advise on contract structure and risk allocation, including liability, indemnification, insurance, intellectual property, publications, data security, payment and termination terms
- Translate business objectives into clear contract terms, coordinate internal review and approvals, and move negotiations forward with counterparties
- Support strategic partnerships, commercialization initiatives, health-system collaborations and other business-critical programs with responsive, balanced legal guidance
- Draft and negotiate clinical trial and site agreements, amendments, material transfer agreements, research and collaboration agreements, business associate agreements and data-sharing terms
- Partner with Clinical, Corporate Development, Commercial, Finance and other stakeholders to align scopes, budgets, payment terms, specimen use, publication rights and intellectual property provisions
- Identify and address healthcare, privacy and compliance issues, including HIPAA and data-security requirements, and coordinate with subject-matter experts when specialized advice is needed
- Prepare and maintain amendments and templates that accurately reflect entity changes, assignments, study updates, new workstreams and agreed business terms
- Drive agreements from initial issue spotting and redlines through clean copy, signature routing, confirmation of execution and delivery of the fully executed agreement
- Maintain accurate matter status in the contract lifecycle management system from intake through counterparty review, internal approval, signature and closeout
- Coordinate signature workflows, confirm required approvals and signature authority, and ensure executed agreements and related records are captured in the appropriate repository
- Use and improve templates, fallback language, playbooks and intake processes that help the business move efficiently while preserving appropriate legal controls
- Provide clear status updates, surface dependencies and open issues early, and communicate legal recommendations in practical language to business partners and legal leadership
- Exercise sound judgment to distinguish material legal risks from acceptable business tradeoffs, develop workable compromises and escalate significant issues at the right time
- Counsel stakeholders on confidentiality, publications, privacy, data security, insurance, intellectual property and other recurring contracting risks
- Collaborate with senior legal team members, internal subject-matter experts and outside counsel on complex or specialized matters while retaining day-to-day ownership and follow-through
Our take
Freenome is a biotechnology company offering a biological analysis platform that uses molecular biology and machine learning to detect cancer with a routine blood draw. The platform trains on thousands of cancer-positive blood samples to recognise disease-associated patterns and help detect early-stage cancer, allowing clinicians to optimise treatments.
The company specialises in advanced computational biology, using machine learning to detect patterns among billions of circulating cell-free biomarkers. Freenome continues to focus on the development of its colorectal cancer test, potentially helping the 45 million people not currently up-to-date on colorectal cancer screening guidelines in the United States.
Following its 2022 funding round, the company surpassed the $1 billion funding mark. Freenome is set to accelerate the development of its platform, testing for additional cancers and furthering its blood test detection technology. It's also forming partnerships for R&D purposes, joining forces with health firms such as Geisinger to provide real-world data that could help it detect multiple cancers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2025
$75m
LATE VC
Feb 2024
$254m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Riley Ennis
(Co-Founder)Studied at Yale, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth. Was a Thiel Fellow and co-founded Immudicon and Oncolinx.
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