Senior Corporate Counsel

Senior Corporate Counsel- Contract- US Remote

About Velsera

Medicine moves too slow. At Velsera, we are changing that.

Velsera was formed in 2023 through the shared vision of Seven Bridges and Pierian, with a mission to accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of life-changing insights.

Velsera provides software and professional services for:

• AI-powered multimodal data harmonization and analytics for drug discovery and development
• IVD development, validation, and regulatory approval
• Clinical NGS interpretation, reporting, and adoption

With our headquarters in Boston, MA, we are growing and expanding our teams located in different countries!

Job responsibilities:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of complex commercial agreements across the company?s operations, including enterprise SaaS agreements, technology licensing, data sharing agreements, bioinformatics collaborations, data resale and sublicensing deals, and confidentiality agreements.
• Structure and negotiate strategic partnerships involving data products, platform access, and cloud-based tools in support of life sciences and precision medicine initiatives.
• Serve as the legal department?s primary liaison to Sales, Commercial, Program Management, Finance, GRC, Engineering, Security, and Product teams.
• Lead contract negotiations with pharmaceutical and biotech customers, including academic institutions and international counterparties, supporting both commercial and data product business lines.
• Draft and operationalize fallback terms, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, and contract approval/escalation workflows for Sales, BD, and Alliance teams.
• Provide product counseling and legal review for platform features, marketing language, customer onboarding, public dataset access, data visualization tools, and certification programs.
• Own and evolve legal oversight of data governance models, including data mapping, platform permissions, anonymization frameworks, consent requirements, and internal audit.
• Develop and maintain internal processes for incident response, data security breach notifications, and cross-border data flows involving PII, PHI, or genomic data.
• Advise internal stakeholders on compliance with global privacy regulations, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, DPF, and other region-specific data laws.
• Support the development and negotiation of customer-facing Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Business Associate Agreements (BAAs), and cross-border data transfer mechanisms.
• Lead or support legal response and remediation plans for security incidents involving vendor platforms, SSO integrations, user impersonation, or unauthorized access to sensitive datasets.
• Partner with HR team on employment law issues including severance agreements, independent contractor classification, remote work policies, and employee hiring in U.S. and international jurisdictions.
• Provide legal guidance on entity formation, intercompany agreements, subsidiary oversight, cross-border IP ownership, and governance documentation for U.S. and international affiliates.
• Serve as the legal project manager for internal and external corporate transactions including M&A, investor diligence, convertible instruments, and post-acquisition integration.
• Work with external counsel and internal business leads to ensure that the company?s legal obligations align with commercial goals, platform capabilities, and regulatory constraints.
• Translate legal risk into business-aligned recommendations that preserve flexibility while maintaining compliance.
• Support board-related deliverables including D&O insurance coordination, officer and director appointments, and entity recordkeeping.
• Monitor and interpret new and evolving laws relevant to the company?s operations, including digital health, life sciences, data use, consumer protection, export controls, and AI regulation.
• Help build and sustain a legal function that is scalable, cross-functional, and operationally embedded across a global business.