Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Transactions, Cambridge, MA
Isomorphiclabs · Cambridge, MA · hybrid
Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.
The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery.
Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.
The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.
About Iso
Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.
Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases.
We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.
Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.
Your impact
We are hiring an exceptional, strategic, and results-driven Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Transactions, to support and execute high-impact strategic transactions, including business development, corporate development, and other expanding deal pipelines. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Legal, you will play a key role in supporting transaction execution, scaling the legal function, and building our partnership network.
This role directly addresses our increasing transaction volume and complexity across corporate, business, and strategic deal pipelines, including specialized research collaborations, co-development agreements, M&A & investment deals. By bringing experienced transaction execution in-house, you will accelerate deal velocity and support our evolving partnership strategy.
As a core operational driver, you will scale our partnership strategy by establishing deal playbooks, standardizing term sheets, and building robust due diligence processes for corporate development and other strategic initiatives. You will also lead comprehensive risk mitigation across data licensing & corporate structuring. Ultimately, this role reinforces partnering and IsoLegal's contributions as essential investments to power Isomorphic Labs toward achieving its mission, directly aligning with and enabling our corporate priorities.
What you will do
- Partner closely with deal team stakeholders and cross-functional teams to structure, draft, negotiate, and close complex corporate, business development, corporate development, and strategic transaction deal pipelines.
- Manage various transactions across their lifecycle, handling specialized research collaborations, co-development partnerships and data licensing agreements from concept through execution and kick-off.
- Play a leading role on all aspects of the transaction lifecycle from initial outreach through to final contract closing.
- Drive operational scaling within the IsoLegal function by developing standardized deal playbooks, template term sheets, and efficient due diligence workflows tailored to streamline corporate development and other strategic initiatives.
- Lead legal due diligence efforts, mitigating corporate, data licensing, information security and technology transfer risks while ensuring regulatory and contractual compliance.
- Streamline deal execution through tech enablement to decrease reliance on external legal counsel, optimize legal expenditures, and empower deal teams with business-minded legal counsel.
- Serve as a key liaison to BD, scientific, and leadership stakeholders, aligning legal risk management directly with Iso's strategic objectives and company goals.
- Operate at the interface of various stakeholders including Business Development, Alliance Management, Legal and scientific and research teams to capture requirements for contract drafting.
Skills and qualifications
Essential:
- J.D. or equivalent legal qualification with significant corporate transactional experience within biotech, pharma, or life sciences technology sectors.
- 5 years experience at a highly-rated law firm advising on transactions
- Demonstrated success structuring and executing complex transactions, including research collaborations, co-development agreements and data licensing.
- Proven expertise in legal risk mitigation, particularly around data governanc and complex corporate structures.
- Experience scaling legal operations, including building deal playbooks and standardizing term sheets and diligence processes.
- Strategic thinker with proven experience in defining and executing long-term growth plans.
- Significant understanding of the drug development lifecycle, from early-stage research through clinical development and commercialisation.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and globally distributed environment.
- High level of personal integrity and dedication to fostering a collaborative culture.
- Familiarity with leveraging AI tools and legal technology to streamline day-to-day workflows, including contract review, drafting, and research.
Nice to have:
- Advanced degree (PhD or MS) or industry experience in life sciences.
- Experience working on buy-side M&A transactions or corporate VC.
- Experience working in-house supporting business or corporate development teams.
Culture and values
We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.
Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.
Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.
Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.
Together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.
Creating an extraordinary company
We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.
We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional ne