Corporate Counsel

Job Description

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, around the globe. Here's what you need to know about the role, our team and why Flatiron Health is the right next step in your career.

What You'll Do

In this role, you'll work with the Legal, Privacy & Compliance team to provide legal and strategic support to the International Business Unit, with a focus on our efforts in Europe. Reporting to the Assistant 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, data privacy and compliance support to our International team including our subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, and Japan. 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, these roles 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 around the world. This role can be based in our London or Berlin offices, where you’ll be part of a rapidly growing team. In addition, you'll also:

• Collaborate with all International teams, and key US-based functions to provide strategic, legal and data privacy guidance on matters associated with Flatiron’s International 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 trial, data use and consulting agreements, amendments 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
• Lead data privacy related work in the context of Flatiron’s data processing activities in close collaboration with internal and external data privacy experts (e.g. DPO)
• Represent the needs and concerns of Flatiron when interacting with regulators, clients, 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 Assistant 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.

Who You Are

You're a resourceful attorney with 5+ 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 at least one of the following: a JD/law degree and are a member and in good standing of any State Bar; an English law degree; and admitted as a solicitor in England (or similar jurisdiction) or a German law degree and fully qualified in Germany
• You have practical knowledge and experience gained from working in the in-house legal department of a UK or European healthtech or healthcare company, or in private practice providing support to healthtech or healthcare companies
• You have the ability to work independently and exercise excellent judgment
• You have excellent 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 experience with technology transactions, licensing, data use and clinical trials agreements
• You have an understanding of pertinent laws and data privacy regulations in Europe (incl. GDPR, UK and German national and state level legislation, CE mark, etc.)
• 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 experience with regulatory issue spotting, research, analysis, and risk mitigation in the highly regulated health care or pharmaceuticals environments
• You have a passion for helping the world beat cancer
• You are fluent in German (desirable)
• You have 5-7 years of in-house and law firm experience

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, hospital, health system, government agency, or clinical research funder or sponsor

Why You Should Join Our Team

A career at Flatiron is a chance to work with everyone involved in the future of cancer care and research—all under one roof. Researchers, data scientists, designers, clinicians, technologists and many more all work together to improve cancer care and accelerate research.

At Flatiron, we strive to build and maintain an environment where employees from all backgrounds are valued, respected and have the opportunity to succeed. You'll also find a culture of continuous learning, broad and inclusive employee support offerings, and a commitment to supporting our team members in all aspects of their lives—at home, at work and everywhere in between. We offer:

• Flatiron University training curriculum which includes presentation skills, meeting mastery, coding languages and more
• Career coaching opportunities
• Hackathons for all employees (not just our engineers!)
• Professional development benefit for attending conferences, industry events and external courses
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Generous parental leave (16 weeks for either parent)
• Back-up child care
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that encourage our employees to share their unique experiences and perspectives
• Flatiron-sponsored fitness classes

Flatiron Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

COVID-19: Pursuant to Flatiron's health and safety protocol relating to COVID-19, candidates selected for hire must disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status and must be fully vaccinated in order to access our offices or travel to customer sites, subject to legally required exemptions for disability or sincerely-held religious belief. Flatiron will engage in an interactive process as appropriate for the particular position. For external-facing roles, especially those involving contact with vulnerable individuals, accommodations for unvaccinated status may not be feasible.