Senior Contracts Manager, Corporate and IP Paralegal

Job Description

Job Description

Thank you for your interest in a career at Senti Biosciences. Our mission is to create a new generation of smarter medicines that outmaneuver complex diseases in ways previously inconceivable. We are passionate about designing gene circuits to improve the “intelligence” of cell and gene therapies in order to enhance their therapeutic effectiveness against a broad range of diseases that conventional medicines are unable to address.

At Senti, we find purpose and meaning knowing that our efforts have the potential to improve the lives of patients and their families with more effective and safer treatment options. With science as our foundation and empathy as our key guiding principle, colleagues become friends, managers become mentors, and with time, cancer becomes history.

Summary :

Senti is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager, Corporate and IP Paralegal.  Reporting to the SVP of Legal Affairs, the individual will be responsible for managing the company’s contracts process, all corporate paralegal and IP paralegal matters;  providing management support for the administrative operations of the legal department; evaluating, implementing, and managing various processes and improvements based on best practices and business needs to enhance productivity of the legal team and to ensure delivery of high quality legal services to its corporate clients; performing other work under the supervision of attorneys, including coordinating and managing projects and matters across various legal practices for the legal team as required.

Responsibilities :

• Management of Contracts and Legal Documents
• Prepare, review and negotiate a broad range of contracts, including confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, services agreements, clinical trial agreements
• Develop and maintain form agreements
• Create, maintain, file legal documents, correspondence, and files in support of corporate policies or in response to regulatory or governmental requests or requirements, including board and committee minutes and materials, and SEC filings
• Management of Legal Processes
• Evaluate, recommend, and lead the implementation of changes to legal processes, as appropriate, that align with the corporate objectives and that are aimed at enhancing productivity and efficiency of the legal operations and legal services to client
• Evaluate, recommend, and maintain key performance indicators as metrics to establish performance standards and to ensure that the established standards are met by the legal team
• Management of technology solutions / systems tools
• Manage appropriate contracts with vendors to maintain and support the technology solutions / systems tools used by the legal team; periodically evaluate systems used by the legal team to determine whether changes in the systems are merited based on cost, operations requirements, and improved efficiency
• Serve as the systems administrator for one or more technology solutions / systems tools utilized by the legal team
• Project manage implementation of new systems tools or updates as required
• Serve as the legal liaison with IT (internal and consultants) to ensure continued operation of the technology solutions / systems tools
• Management of Client Services
• Serve as the primary legal contact for the corporate clients on matters relating generally to legal processes
• Manage and maintain training programs for employees relating to legal operations, including legal on-boarding training for new-employees and periodic refresher training for all employees, to ensure that corporate clients are knowledgeable about legal requirements and processes
• Handle other activities that promote or enhance legal team’s visibility and image within the company

Qualifications :

Salary and Benefits :

Senti Bio is a publicly traded (Nasdaq : SNTI) gene circuit company headquartered in South San Francisco. Our mission is to create a new generation of smarter medicines that outmaneuver complex diseases using novel and unprecedented approaches.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Senti Bio. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse Senti Team. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.