Legal Counsel, BioRender
Scientific diagram creator
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Scientific diagram creator
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover and communicate science.
Role
Who you are
- 5-10 years (Attorney) of in-house SaaS legal experience, particularly with IP, Commercial and Procurement support, Privacy, Product counseling
- Has strong personal success as a cross-functional team player
- US or Canada-based with global experience
What the job involves
- As our Legal Counsel II you will provide legal support to the company by offering recommendations on best practices in areas such as intellectual property, including copyright and trademark protection for company icons and branding.
- Additionally, ensure compliance with global data privacy and data protection regulations, while supporting product development, particularly in the use of data for AI/ML features, and addressing general legal matters.
- Further, deliver comprehensive legal assistance for Go-To-Market and commercial activities, negotiating and closing various SaaS-related agreements, such as MSAs, DPAs, order forms, and security exhibits, leveraging experience with Fortune 500 companies and global universities
- Facilitate Go-To-Market (GTM) deal closings and renewals with prompt legal review and support, enabling the Director of Legal to focus on strategic company objectives, within the first 4 weeks
- Oversee legal operational matters, including administering our IronClad platform, collaborating with the Deal Desk lead, coordinating contract signatures, and managing vendor review requests within the first 2 months
- Serve as the go-to legal expert for intellectual property (IP), privacy, GTM, and product support, providing key insights and guidance across these critical areas
- Analyze, update, and optimize the legal playbook, specifically focusing on licensing, agreement negotiation, and other key policies, within the first 3 months
- Offer broad legal support across all company departments, including security, corporate, employment, and engineering, ensuring comprehensive legal coverage as needed
- Intellectual Property: Advise and provide best practices on IP matters, particularly with copyrights, brand protection and proactive measures for marketplace monitoring and enforcement of BioRender IP
- Commercial: Provide contract review support for new and renewal deals, including contract drafting and negotiation of NDA’s, SSA’s, DPA’s and review of order confirmations and quotes and any customer-provided paperwork
- Privacy: Identify and resolve gaps in our global data privacy compliance requirements
- Procurement: Provide contract support for procurement requests for new and existing vendors, including contract negotiation of NDA’s, MSA’s, DPA’s and review of vendor order forms and other vendor-provided paperwork
- Contracts: Maintain our contract management system (IronClad) and assist with contract intake and repository management, including obligation tracking. Coordinate signatures in Docusign for all documents requiring signatures
- Legal Support: Provide assistance to our Customer Experience team by addressing licensing inquiries and responding to ad hoc legal matters
- Corporate: Assist with maintaining our corporate organizational documents and assist with general corporate legal matters including equity administration and other duties, as needed
- Enablement: Provide enablement/training for new Sales, CS and CX members on legal processes. Maintain and build out our internal Legal resource pages in Notion
- Legal Operations: Identify and provide solutions for any inefficiencies or gaps with our legal processes and provide solutions
- Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams on various projects and initiatives
Our take
One of the best ways for science students and experts to communicate ideas is through diagrams, but not everyone has the illustration skills to pull this off. Whilst computer graphics can be used instead of manually drawing scientific imagery, the lack of a dedicated resource for such images prevents diagrams from being consistent and professional.
Biorender hosts thousands of pre-made icons and templates to be used in the creation of diagrams across over 30 different life science fields. The resources follow consistent quality standards and can be dragged and dropped within the platform to create scientific diagrams, to be used by students, teachers, labs, and educational institutions.
Other visual libraries that include scientific icons and templates exist for the creation of diagrams, but Biorender has presented a novel idea with its exhaustive library, offering to produce missing icons on demand within 48 hours. The entire library is free to use alongside basic design features by individuals for educational purposes, with more advanced features and paid licenses being available for labs and institutions. Its success at visualising complex diagrams and information has helped Biorender achieve several rounds of substantial funding.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$17.1m
SERIES A
Jan 2018
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $17.3m
Company benefits
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive health and dental benefits for you and your family from your first day, including an EAP, HSA, and extended mental health benefits.
- Recharge Long Weekends: In addition to vacation days, our 3 annual BioRender Recharge long weekends offer you a chance to unplug and reset!
- Stock Options: Our employees are also part-owners of BioRender and reap the benefits of their shared hard work.
- Parental Leave Benefits: To help your growing family while you're away from work, we offer a salary top up and even a new baby bonus!
- PAW Perks: Keep your furry family members healthy with our Pet & Animal Wellness veterinary bill reimbursement program.
- Learn and Grow: We'll support your professional growth through regular goal-setting, mentorship, and an annual professional development budget for courses and conferences.
- Team Events: Virtual lunch and learns, show & tells, games, and happy hours help us to stay connected in a remote-first environment.
- In-person Hackathons: Twice per year, we bring our whole team together in Toronto for a week of innovative team work, and cap it off with a company social!
- Work from Anywhere: Our team members have the flexibility to work from another country for up to 3 months per year.
- Flexible Time Off: Our "Flexible Vacation" policy gives you the flexibility to take time off when you need it, so you can unplug, recharge, and come back refreshed.
Company values
- First Principles: We seek to understand the root causes of a problem before moving to action. We do this by repeatedly asking why, until we’ve understood the core of what we’re solving and how to tailor our solutions for our unique context.
- User Obsessed: We believe in understanding our users so deeply that we’re able to create experiences for them that they didn’t know to ask for.
- Debate for Excellence: We push ourselves and each other to reach the best answer together using open debate.
- Drivers, Not Passengers: We take initiative and make progress instead of waiting for others to do it for us. And we create the conditions for others to do the same.
- Simple and Clear: We use simple, clear language especially when we’re communicating complex or technical concepts.
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
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Leadership
Shiz Aoki
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Lead Science Illustrator for National Geographic. Also Founder and Medical Illustrator for Anatomize Studios Inc.
Katya Shteyn
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as Software Engineer for Dropbox and as a Software Engineering Intern for Google.
Ryan Marien
(Co-Founder)Co-Founder of SnapSaves. Also Founded Buytopia.ca.
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