General Counsel

Role Overview

Plasmidsaurus is looking for its first full-time General Counsel to help navigate the legal complexities of a rapidly growing, high-impact, global business. You'll be a key advisor to founders and leadership, helping make better decisions, pursue opportunities, and identify material risks before they become costly problems. This is a hands-on leadership role building a lean, effective legal function.

What You'll Do

• Advise the business: partner with founders and leadership on consequential decisions, proactively identifying material legal risks and opportunities, evaluating trade-offs, and developing practical paths forward.
• Lead commercial legal matters: structure, draft, and negotiate customer, supplier, technology, and strategic partnership agreements, personally leading high-stakes negotiations and establishing efficient processes for routine agreements.
• Guide global corporate strategy: advise on international operations, entity structures, inter-company arrangements, expansion, and significant corporate transactions.
• Protect intellectual property and business interests: partner with scientific and technical leaders on IP protection, ownership, licensing, and commercialization.
• Navigate regulatory and compliance matters: address legal implications of new products, markets, and business models, including laboratory and clinical regulation, data privacy, cross-border movement of biological materials, and export controls.
• Own corporate legal and governance matters: support the CEO and board on governance, corporate obligations, strategic transactions, and other significant legal matters.
• Build the legal function: establish processes, resources, and outside counsel relationships needed to provide responsive, reliable legal support.

Who You Are

• A seasoned legal leader who has operated as a senior in-house legal adviser, ideally in a fast-growing company navigating increasing scale, complexity, and international expansion.
• A sharp commercial mind who understands how businesses make money and negotiates complex agreements with confidence.
• A versatile corporate and international legal expert with meaningful experience in corporate law, governance, international structures, and cross-border matters.
• Exceptional judgment: distinguishes real risks from theoretical ones and helps leaders make smart decisions.
• A builder who is comfortable advising on consequential decisions, solving problems, and creating systems that make Legal more effective.
• An expert who makes complexity simple, communicates clearly, and offers practical recommendations.
• Resourceful and pragmatic, knowing when to bring in specialized expertise without building bureaucracy.
• Intellectually curious and technically comfortable, quickly getting up to speed on complex scientific, technical, and regulatory questions.

Required Qualifications

• A JD from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with a U.S. state bar.
• Experienced working in life sciences, biotechnology, scientific services, or another technically complex or regulated industry, or able to demonstrate strong judgment navigating unfamiliar technical and regulatory environments.