Lead Legal Counsel
Dexcom
Summary
Dexcom’s legal team is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced attorney to serve as Lead Legal Counsel. Reporting to the Sr Manager Legal Counsel, this role will provide strategic legal support for Dexcom’s venture and other complex commercial and strategic transactions. You will work closely with business leaders, cross-functional stakeholders, other members of the Legal team, and external partners to structure, draft, and negotiate sophisticated agreements, often under tight timelines and across multiple concurrent matters.
Job description
Where you come in:
- You provide strategic, practical, and business-oriented legal advice on venture investments, strategic collaborations, and other complex commercial transactions.
- You lead the drafting, review, and negotiation of sophisticated agreements, including investment, collaboration, licensing, development, commercialization, and other strategic transaction documents.
- You manage transactions from initial structuring through execution and implementation, coordinating legal workstreams, due diligence, approvals, and closing deliverables.
- You partner effectively with multiple stakeholders across the organization, including business development, finance, tax, accounting, regulatory, privacy, intellectual property, compliance, and other functions.
- You identify and communicate legal and business risks clearly, develop pragmatic solutions, and help the business make informed decisions while advancing strategic objectives.
- You manage multiple complex matters simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and deliver high-quality work under tight and shifting timelines.
- You build trusted relationships with business partners and external counterparties and manage outside counsel efficiently, as needed.
What makes you successful:
- You hold a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- You are an active member in good standing of the California State Bar or are eligible to register as in-house counsel in California.
- You have a minimum of 8+ years of relevant transactional legal experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department, with meaningful experience supporting venture investments and strategic transactions.
- You have a strong track record drafting and negotiating complex agreements and translating sophisticated legal issues into clear, practical advice.
- You are comfortable advising senior business leaders and collaborating with multiple legal and cross-functional stakeholders with differing priorities.
- You are highly organized and able to multitask, exercise sound judgment, and independently manage multiple high-priority matters under tight timelines.
- You are a collaborative, responsive, and solutions-oriented partner who builds trust with the business and works effectively as part of a team.
- You demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation, and project-management skills, with close attention to detail.
- Prior in-house experience is preferred.
- You are able to work in person in the San Diego office as required; residence within 75 miles is strongly preferred.
- You have a minimum of 8 years of related corporate commercial law experience at top-tier law firm and/or in house (preferred).
- You must be comfortable presenting to, counseling, and interacting with executives and business leaders.
- You are recognized as an expert in your field within the organization.
- You are committed to teamwork and maintaining strong relationships and lines of communication with business partners and other key stakeholders across the organization.
- You have excellent decision-making skills, practical business judgement, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- You are able to work in person in the San Diego office as required, local within 75 miles is strongly preferred.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
- Active member in good standing of the California State Bar or eligible to register as in-house counsel in California
- Minimum of 8+ years of relevant transactional legal experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in-house legal department
- Meaningful experience supporting venture investments and strategic transactions
- Strong track record drafting and negotiating complex agreements
- Ability to translate sophisticated legal issues into clear, practical advice
- Comfortable advising senior business leaders
- Highly organized and able to multitask
- Exercise sound judgment and independently manage multiple high-priority matters under tight timelines
- Collaborative, responsive, and solutions-oriented partner
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and project-management skills
- Close attention to detail
- Prior in-house experience preferred
- Able to work in person in the San Diego office as required; residence within 75 miles strongly preferred
- Minimum of 8 years of related corporate commercial law experience at top-tier law firm and/or in house (preferred)
- Comfortable presenting to, counseling, and interacting with executives and business leaders
- Recognized as an expert in your field within the organization
- Committed to teamwork and maintaining strong relationships
- Excellent decision-making skills and practical business judgement
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
Benefits
- Comprehensive Benefits Program
- Career Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
Company overview
Dexcom, Inc. is a pioneering American healthcare company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for diabetes management. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Dexcom has transformed diabetes care through innovative biosensing technology that provides real-time glucose readings. The company's flagship products, including the G-series CGM systems, offer industry-leading accuracy and extended wear times, with the latest G7 model providing up to 15.5 days of continuous monitoring. As a publicly traded company listed on Nasdaq (DXCM) and a component of both the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 indices, Dexcom operates globally with manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Malaysia, and Ireland. With over 10,300 employees worldwide, the company generates approximately $4 billion in annual revenue and maintains strategic partnerships with major healthcare technology companies. Dexcom's mission focuses on empowering people with diabetes to take control of their health through advanced monitoring solutions that improve clinical outcomes and quality of life.