Assistant Counsel

Do you want to contribute to a larger purpose to save the lives of infants in the NICU? This is Prolacta Bioscience's mission! Take a look at this opportunity with our Quality Control team, which is seeking a passionate individual, to fill the role of our Assistant Counsel. This role will have a wide range of legal responsibilities across the organization, including drafting sales, supply chain, and vendor contracts, supporting clinical activities, monitoring contractual compliance, and helping to prepare various policies and procedures.

Who Is Prolacta Bioscience?

We give babies a brighter future by unlocking the biological power of human milk. Established in 1999, Prolacta Bioscience is a privately held life sciences company that has touched the lives of more than 100,000 premature infants globally. Prolacta is the world's leading hospital provider of 100% human milk- based nutritional products. Based in Southern California, we employ more than 300 people globally, many of whom have dedicated their lives to neonatal care.

For more information, please visit www.prolacta.com

How you will contribute

This role will provide you with the opportunity to contribute to the growth of our organization and develop your professional skills by performing the following...

• Draft and advise management on a broad range of commercial agreements with hospital and group purchasing organization (GPO) customers, suppliers, licensors, lessors, distributors, financial institutions, health care professionals, and research partners, among others.
• Prepare and update Company templates to reflect changes in law and best practices, including sales contracts, clinical trial agreements, material transfer and non-disclosure agreements, employment and consulting contracts, and other standard corporate forms.
• Monitor compliance with applicable state and federal securities laws and with the Company's charter documents and investor agreements in connection with various securities transactions, including equity incentive awards, stock redemptions, stock transfers and distributions.
• Oversee maintenance of organizational and stockholder records of the Company and its subsidiaries.
• Maintain the Company's contract lifecycle management system and ensure all agreements are appropriately cataloged.
• Review sales, marketing, and operational practices for compliance with applicable healthcare industry rules, regulations, and reporting, including, but not limited to FDA regulations, FCPA, AKS, and HIPAA.
• Support the Company's HR function on various employment law issues, as needed.
• Support the Company's Senior Counsel personnel on various issues, as needed.
• Interface with outside counsel on litigation, international issues, and regulatory matters, as directed by the General Counsel.

What you bring to the role

• J.D. degree from an ABA-accredited law school, with excellent academic credentials, and admitted to practice in one or more U.S. jurisdictions, preferably California.
• Practicing attorney with 3-5 years' experience in general corporate, commercial and/or transactional work at a top-tier law firm or corporation. In-house experience is desirable but is not required.
• Experience in the healthcare or life science industries preferred.
• Excellent writing skills with strong attention to detail, and heavy and varied drafting experience.
• Ability to allocate attention to changing business priorities with little or no supervision in order to support the Company's critical functions.
• Skilled at all levels of contract lifecycle management.
• First-rate communication skills, with an ability to provide clear and timely risk assessments to the business team and explain legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Strong work ethic and ability to produce high quality work under deadline pressures.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including flexibility and the ability to communicate with a variety of colleagues including leadership.

How Prolacta benefits you

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From up to 100% healthcare coverage starting on your first day, to discretionary stock options and 401(k) match, we value our employees' health and financial wellbeing. We offer four weeks PTO during your first year of employment and support our new parents with a generous time-off program. We encourage employees to participate in our employee affinity groups, take volunteer time off, and provide access to different educational opportunities.

What else do you need to know

Location: Remote - US based

Schedule: M-F 8-5 Pacific Time

Travel: 10-15%

FLSA: Exempt

Depending on your residential location certain laws might regulate the way Prolacta manages applicant data. California Residents, please review our Privacy Notice for California Employees and Job Applicants for further information, this can be found on Prolacta.com on www.prolacta.com . By submitting your application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand the above notice.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to effectively communicate (e.g., talking/ hearing), walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach things. The employee is occasionally required to taste, smell, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Sedentary to light work; repetitive motions; pushing; pulling; visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures, transcribe, view a computer terminal.

EEO Statement

"Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer." Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. is committed to a proactive program of affirmative action and diversity development. The Company will continue to recruit, hire, train, and promote into all job levels without regard to race, religion, gender, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, source of income, or veteran status

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