Associate General Counsel
A Rare Opportunity to Shape the Future of Genomics
Join a team of brilliant, passionate innovators determined to transform healthcare. At BillionToOne , we've built a category-defining, publicly traded company on Nasdaq where transparency fuels trust, collaboration drives breakthroughs, and every contribution moves the needle on our mission to make life-changing diagnostics accessible to all. We don't just aim for incremental improvements; we build products that are 10x better than anything that exists today.
Our scientists, engineers, sales executives, and visionaries are united by an unwavering commitment to changing the standard of care in prenatal and cancer diagnostics. This is where cutting-edge science meets human compassion, and every innovation you contribute helps remove the fear of the unknown from some of life's most critical medical moments.
If you're driven by purpose, energized by innovation, and ready to help shape the future of precision medicine at scale, this is where you belong.
BillionToOne is looking to hire an Associate General Counsel , its fifth attorney, for its growing Legal & Compliance team to advise on a variety of issues. This role will have a significant impact on developing and implementing legal and compliance policies, practices, and systems. You will partner and collaborate with members of our Finance, Sales, Market Access, Reimbursement, R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain, and HR teams. This role reports to our General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer & Secretary and can be located onsite, hybrid, or fully remote (with occasional travel).
Responsibilities:
- Proactively identify and address legal and compliance risks across Product, Marketing, Commercial Operations, Market Access/Reimbursement, Research & Development, People Ops and Finance — anticipating issues rather than waiting to be asked
- Independently identify gaps in existing policies and processes and drive build-out of compliance infrastructure
- Develop processes and infrastructure to ensure compliance with applicable external requirements, soliciting feedback from internal stakeholders, preparing and drafting policies/SOPs and overseeing implementation and training in a variety of areas
- Advise on company contracts, including drafting, negotiating, reviewing, interpreting, and managing strategic, high-value contracts
- Take ownership of legal questions in unfamiliar subject areas — research, collect business input, and drive to resolution with appropriate escalation
- Partner with legal team members to develop and build legal and compliance infrastructure and program for lab services/life science organization
Requirements:
- Genuine interest and ability to learning new areas of law and business, with a proven track record of taking on projects in unfamiliar areas and driving them to completion
- Ability to be highly resourceful, adaptable, creative and nimble in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Track record of taking on unfamiliar legal problems with minimal oversight and driving them to a positive result for the business
- Comfortable operating with significant autonomy and ambiguity in a lean legal team, making judgment calls without a playbook
- JD and licensed to practice law in one or more US jurisdictions
- 5+ years of experience in a law firm and/or in-house legal department, ideally with exposure to life science or health care organizations
- Experience advising commercial leaders and colleagues on business strategies, product promotion, sales programs and transactions and other commercial initiatives.
- Experience developing processes to comply with legal/regulatory requirements, drafting and implementing policies and procedures, and delivering employee training
- Exposure to some combination of the following subject areas: commercial compliance, securities/corporate governance, contract drafting and negotiation, intellectual property, and labor and employment matters
- Strong team-player