General Counsel

The General Counsel is responsible for overseeing the legal function on a global basis. You will help drive commercial growth while balancing business risk. Twist is scaling rapidly and we need a business-minded senior leader to work across commercial, product, corporate, employment, and general legal issues. The General Counsel provides senior management and the board of directors with effective legal counsel on company strategies and their implementation, manages the legal function, and assesses and manages risk. As a member of the leadership team, the General Counsel will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a work environment focused on quality and that fosters learning, respect, open communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork.

What You Will Be Doing:

Commercial – Largest focus area of this role. Medium/Large enterprise and partner contracting on commercial terms, product commitments, privacy, and compliance globally.

Develop functional plans for managing legal matters, including activities to be performed in-house or through third-party providers, to efficiently manage the company’s legal activities and minimize risk for the business.

Manage and direct general corporate matters, including corporate organization, securities compliance, general transaction support, license agreements, employment law, regulatory matters, risk management, financing activities, and general contract management.

Structure key business initiatives in a manner that helps to achieve business objectives while at the same time protects legal, regulatory, and tax directives and considerations.

Coordinate board of director meetings and acts as the corporate secretary preparing meeting minutes and maintaining appropriate corporate records.

Provide leadership and technical guidance to ensure an effective global ethics and compliance program. Oversees the development of programs to prevent and detect violations of laws, company policies, and other misconduct; promote ethical practices; and ensure the implementation of the compliance program throughout the organization.

Advise on legal aspects of the Company’s financing activities and corporate structure considerations, including assessing and advising on current and future business structures and legal entities.

Proactively address rapidly evolving regulatory and governance compliance environment including changes in laws and regulations, regulatory focus areas, and industry best practices.

What You Will Bring to the Team:

JD with 10+ years of general corporate legal or regulatory experience in biotechnology and/or pharmaceutical industries with general counsel experience in either in-house, in private practice or a combination of both.

Ability to research laws and industry standards, trends, and technologies, and prepare corporate policies and practices.

Ability to lead as well as collaborate and function well in a team environment.

Ability to work effectively with Senior Management and Board of Directors.

Demonstrated experience in commercial legal analysis and planning, including effectively managing multiple projects/priorities.

Ability to work effectively with and influence across functional units and at all levels in the organization, as well as with external parties.

Proven ability to make sound judgments and decisions. Ability to quickly assess problems/situations and provide effective resolution/solutions.

A “can do” professional who will work proactively both with internal and external resources to drive results.

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain positive work relationships to effectively interface at all levels across the organization.

Excellent communicator with business acumen and the ability to consistently meet or exceed project deadlines.

You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment that will require you to manage competing priorities, pivot quickly and often, and continually build as the company scales.

Commercial compliance experience required

Experience with FDA and healthcare regulatory and compliance preferred.

About Twist Bioscience

Twist Bioscience synthesizes genes from scratch, known as “writing” DNA. Just as children learn to both read and write, the next phase of development for the genomics revolution is the ability to write DNA.

At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of people who are changing the world for the better. In fields such as health care, agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage, our unique silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform provides precision at a scale that is otherwise unavailable to our customers.

Twist Bioscience Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Twist Bioscience Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic characteristics, or any other category protected by law.