Legal Counsel

Irvine, CA       ·       Full time

Job Title: Legal Counsel
FLSA: Salaried Exempt
Department: Legal & Compliance
Reports To: General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
To apply, e-mail your resume to careers@axonics.com

Job Responsibilities:

Axonics is looking for an experienced full-time Legal Counsel who will play an integral role in providing Legal and Compliance support to all functions of a dynamic and rapidly growing medical technology company. This role will report to the General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer the company.

General Description and Duties:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential task satisfactorily. The tasks listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required to perform this job effectively.

• Provides legal advice and counseling on a broad range of legal issues that arise in a public medical device company, with a goal of enabling the company’s objectives while managing legal and compliance risk.
• Drafts, negotiates, and interprets various types of commercial contracts, including sales agreements, supply agreements, and non-disclosure agreements. Manage the legal contract review and approval process.
• Advises on potential complex business transactions, such as acquisitions.
• Collaborates with HR on employment law issues and handle employment litigation matters and claims. Works with HR to enhance our practices to minimize employment law risk.
• Manages legal disputes and litigation matters and implement liability avoidance initiatives.
• Helps manage corporate governance processes and compliance with securities laws.
• Drafts, implements, and manages legal and compliance policies.
• Trains and educates various functions on legal and compliance issues.
• Creates and manages legal and compliance policies, processes, and tools.
• Develops and maintains legal expertise in various areas, including but not limited to commercial law, securities law, healthcare law, and intellectual property law.
• Drives implementation of continuous improvements to Legal & Compliance function.
• Supports the General Counsel in conducting legal research, on a broad range of legal issues related to all aspects of the business.

Projects and Other Duties:

• Other duties assigned by manager

Position Qualifications

• Impeccable integrity and ethics
• Highly responsive and service-oriented
• Ability to understand and analyze complex factual and legal issues
• Strong attention to detail, combined with the ability to see the big picture
• Thrives in a fast-paced, demanding, dynamic environment
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize with a risk-based approach and juggle numerous issues at once
• Self-motivated, with an ability to work under own initiative, often under time critical conditions
• Can-do, problem-solving attitude
• Strong sense of intellectual curiosity

Minimum Education:

• Juris Doctorate degree from accredited U.S. law school
• Active bar membership in good standing (preferably CA)

Minimum Experience:

• Experience with contracts and commercial transactions required
• Experience in medical device or life sciences industries a significant plus
• 4 years of experience as a practicing attorney, preferably with some in-house experience

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