Senior VP, Legal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the principal legal advisor to the Chief Financial Officer, executive leadership team, and other senior executives.

• Provide guidance on critical legal, contractual, regulatory, compliance, governance, and reputational issues.

• Foster a culture of ethical decision-making, accountability, compliance, and appropriate risk awareness across the organization.

• Lead or assist in major negotiations involving clients, strategic partners, vendors, technology providers, contractors, and international business arrangements.

• Create contract templates, establish approval authorities, negotiation standards, fallback positions, and escalation procedures.

• Direct the company's legal risk management framework in collaboration with the Chief Financial Officer and executive leadership.

• Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and track significant legal, contractual, compliance, operational, and reputational risks.

• Formulate practical mitigation and escalation strategies that balance legal protection with business priorities and operational demands.

• Deliver updates to leadership on significant legal matters, compliance issues, and emerging risks.

• Offer advice on contracts, operations, and business arrangements involving multiple countries and legal jurisdictions.

• Support international operations, market growth, acquisitions, integrations, and other expansion initiatives.

• Keep abreast of legal and regulatory changes, communicating significant requirements or risks to business leaders.

• Supervise the company’s legal and compliance framework, including policies, procedures, training, controls, and reporting systems.

• Provide guidance on corporate governance requirements and assist in documenting significant corporate decisions and approvals.

• Oversee legal aspects of data privacy, cybersecurity, confidentiality, and ESG matters.

• Manage corporate governance processes and ensure the integrity of official corporate records.

• Participate in Board and committee meetings as necessary, ensuring accurate minutes, resolutions, approvals, and other essential records are prepared and maintained.

• Maintain corporate entity records for the company, its subsidiaries, and affiliated entities across relevant jurisdictions.

• Counsel executive leadership on corporate governance requirements, fiduciary duties, governance practices, and related legal considerations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.

• Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Over 15 years of progressively responsible legal experience, including substantial in-house corporate legal experience.

• Prior experience in a senior legal leadership role, such as Deputy General Counsel, General Counsel, Global Head of Legal, or leader of a significant legal function.

• Proven experience in leading and mentoring attorneys or other legal professionals.

• Extensive background in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts.

• Experience in supporting international business operations and agreements across multiple countries or jurisdictions.

• Demonstrated capability to advise senior executives on significant legal, governance, contractual, compliance, and enterprise risk issues.

• Strong understanding of corporate governance, data privacy, regulatory compliance, employment-related legal matters, and dispute resolution.

• Experience in managing external counsel, legal budgets, and specialized legal service providers.

• Ability to function effectively in a global, remote, and highly collaborative work environment.

• Preferred: Experience in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, healthcare, professional services, or consulting sectors.

• Preferred: Experience advising a global professional services organization with complex client and independent contractor relationships.

• Preferred: Familiarity with regulatory considerations impacting life sciences consulting organizations and their clients.

• Preferred: Experience in facilitating international expansion, acquisitions, integrations, or other business transformation initiatives.

• Preferred: Experience in implementing contract lifecycle management systems, legal intake tools, contract playbooks, entity management systems, or legal workflow automation.

• Preferred: Experience in establishing or enhancing enterprise risk management and corporate governance programs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits.

• 401(k) plan with employer match.

• Paid leave.

• Flexibility that supports work-life balance.