Description:

Position Overview:
Adaptive's Legal team is seeking a creative and agile Counsel to join its Compliance Team. As an integral member of the Legal Department, this role will work in conjunction with our commercial teams to provide compliance guidance and work on contracting primarily in support of Adaptive's sales and EMR integration teams offering our diagnostic clonoSEQ® assay to physicians, hospitals and community groups.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Advise on routine, ongoing compliance queries within the diagnostic clonoSEQ business, such as alignment with compliance requirements, commercial initiatives, and interactions with healthcare professionals globally.
Provide guidance to the business and integrate compliance controls into the scope of existing business practices where applicable.
Draft, review and negotiate laboratory services agreements (LSAs), electronic medical record (EMR) integration agreements, and other customer facing contractual arrangements relating to Adaptive's clonoSEQ assay.
Lead internal efforts regarding risk mitigation and compliance with government contract terms.
Partner closely with privacy and commercial attorneys and counterparts in market access, marketing, finance, security, and operations functions to spot issues and carefully evaluate and mitigate risks.
Maintain a current working knowledge of various laws, regulations, and industry guidance that affect the corporate-wide compliance program, including, but not limited to, antikickback and fraud and abuse laws, transparency laws, OIG and DOJ guidelines, and industry standards, such as the AdvaMed and MedTech codes.
All other duties as assigned; this role may be asked to handle projects and/or workstreams outside what is expressly contemplated.

Required:

Juris Doctorate from a nationally accredited law school and current member in good standing of a U.S. state bar.
At least 5+ years prior in-house or law firm experience providing compliance and/or transactional legal counsel.
Ability to travel at least 3-5 times per year for in-person team or department meetings, audit opportunities, and other meetings as required.
Knowledge of and experience with US laws, regulations, and industry guidance that affect the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or lab industry

Preferred:

Familiarity or experience with FARs, DFARs and other government contracting terms and rules.
Demonstrated client service orientation. Someone eager to establish and own relationships with business owners and who can recognize and respond quickly and pragmatically to demanding clients.
Sound business judgment and ability to navigate complex legal issues without losing sight of the overall business goal.
Strong verbal and written business communication skills are essential: adept at synthesizing and summarizing complex and/or voluminous content into clear, concise and actionable communications, including on legal matters to non-attorneys.
Ability to juggle multiple priorities, work under fast-paced conditions, be comfortable making decisions and demonstrate good judgment.
Strong project management skills: can prioritize tasks and goals to ensure timely, on-target and within-budget accomplishments.
Initiative to solve problems and help the commercial function within the Legal department drive process improvements and scalability.

Working Conditions:
This position may be remote and require occasional travel.