VP Legal, Product Counsel - Remote

Company: Medable, Inc
Location: Seattle
Posted on: June 24, 2022

Job Description:

Company Description

Medable's mission is to get effective therapies to patients faster. We provide an end-to-end, cloud-based platform with a flexible suite of tools that allows patients, healthcare providers, clinical research organizations and pharmaceutical sponsors to work together as a team in clinical trials. Our solutions enable more efficient clinical research, more effective healthcare delivery, and more accurate precision and predictive medicine. Our target audiences are patients, providers, principal investigators, and innovators who work in healthcare and life sciences.

Our vision is to accelerate the path to human discovery and medical cures. We are passionate about driving innovation and empowering consumers. We are proactive, collaborative, self-motivated learners, committed, bold and tenacious. We are dedicated to making this world a healthier place.

Job Description

• Product Counsel that requires Regulatory expertise
• Quickly grasps key drivers of the business and industry and becomes immersed in the most important business issues facing the company
• Provides legal advice on the design and configuration of existing and emerging products, features, devices, and solutions, particularly where technology and innovation outpace regulation
• Advises R&D, quality, delivery, sales, marketing, and other key business stakeholders across the organization
• Works cross-functionally to identify, analyze, and mitigate risks (while maximizing commercial opportunities) on complex issues with multiple dependencies and stakeholders
• Partners with internal clients to create proactive strategies designed to avoid or minimize exposure
• Effectively communicates risks and consequences, balancing potentially conflicting goals, to collaborate with the business on viable alternatives
• Stays current with legal developments, best practices, and benchmarks in the noted areas of law; assists internal clients in implementing policies and procedures in response
• Hires, retains, and mentors extraordinary attorneys to build an extraordinary team
• Other duties as assigned
  Qualifications
  
  • 15+ years of working experience in product counseling and technology transactions or a combination of education and experience, both in-house and major law firm experience preferred
  • Solid working knowledge of corporate law, regulations, and best practices
  • Demonstrated successful leadership and collaboration with colleagues; ability to develop business solutions with effective presentation of risks and anticipated outcomes
  • Currently admitted in good standing to practice law in at least one state in the United States or international equivalent
  • Experience in working successfully in a highly results-oriented and performance-driven environment with a focus on excellence
  • Demonstrates a strategic, innovative, creative, and inquisitive frame of mind and a service and leadership mentality, with strong business acumen and judgment
  • Passionate about product, ethics, and winning
  • Takes initiative and ownership, and operates with a sense of urgency, decisiveness, and responsiveness
  • Makes nuanced recommendations and data-driven business decisions
  • Strong and effective verbal and written communication, with skill and empathy, to a variety of audiences
  • Marshalls the appropriate level and mix of resources as required by circumstances
  • Demonstrates an exceptional focus on details, analysis, and results. Delivers the technical, planning, and project management skills to ensure the highest quality execution
  • Holds themselves to the highest standards of accountability
    Additional Information
    
    • Juris Doctor (or international equivalent) from a top law school.
    • Travel as required
      U.S. employees and contractors, and International workers with travel to the U.S. must have a willingness and ability to provide proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date. All religious, medical, or other legally recognized exemptions regarding vaccination status will be considered.
      
      Medable, Inc provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
      
      U.S. employees and contractors, and International workers with travel to the U.S. must have a willingness and ability to provide proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination prior to start date. All strongly held beliefs, religious, medical, and other legally recognized exemptions regarding vaccination status will be considered.
      

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