Corporate Counsel

Job Description

• General corporate and transactional work supporting the business initiatives of the company • Support compliance with obligations under federal securities laws, NASDAQ rules and regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, and other corporate governance rules and regulations • Support corporate development activities, including strategic collaboration and mergers and acquisitions • Advise on equity matters, including equity plan and compensation issues • Support board of directors corporate governance, planning, and activities • Maintain subsidiaries, corporate books, and records • Support maintaining and strengthening the company's disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting • Partner across the legal team, and company, on special projects. Continuously improve processes and best practices; create and maintain templates, playbooks, policies • Provide practical, business-oriented legal advice to stakeholders across the company • Effectively manage outside counsel as needed

Qualifications

• JD with excellent academic credentials and a member of a U.S. state bar, preferably the State Bar of California • Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a national law firm or in-house • Strong corporate generalist skillset with expertise in securities law, governance, equity compensation, and M&A • Experience in biotechnology or healthcare preferred • Exceptional attention to detail • Self-starter with the ability to get things done autonomously or collaboratively • Excellent organizational and planning skills, able to and thrives in handling multiple projects simultaneously • Effectively develops and delivers presentations and can influence others • Demonstrated analytical skills as well as the ability to take disparate information and make strategic recommendations quickly • Excellent interpersonal skills, including relationship building and collaboration within a diverse, cross-functional team; willingly assists colleagues to maintain balanced workloads • Excellent verbal and written communicator; delivers concise and clear advice • Comfortable with ambiguity and working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment • Ability to work 3 days onsite (Tuesday-Thursday) in our Sunnyvale, CA office

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays • Generous Accrued Time Off increasing with years of service • Generous paid sick time • Annual day of service