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Counsel / Associate Director, Sr. Counsel

insitro· General & Administrative
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South San Francisco, CA$204k - $240kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Legal role at insitro combining commercial, operational, and research/technical contracting responsibilities. Provides end-to-end contracting support, templates and process improvements, and potential expansion into data privacy, clinical trials, corporate governance, and mentorship. Hybrid in-person schedule based in South San Francisco, reporting to Associate General Counsel.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Contract Flow: Draft, review, and negotiate the agreements that run the company day to day, including CDAs, MSAs and SOWs, consulting agreements, and vendor, supplier, and equipment terms.
  • Be the Front Door: Serve as a primary legal contact for the business and R&D teams, triaging incoming requests, setting expectations, driving matters to close on business timelines, and escalating issues to the AGC as needed. Provide business-oriented advice colleagues can act on without a follow-up meeting.
  • Partner with HR: Supporting onboarding and offboarding processes, as well as contractor and similar engagements.
  • Translate Science into Terms: Support lab operations and R&D teams on MTAs, research services agreements, and reagent and instrument purchases, working directly with scientists to turn experimental plans into workable contract terms.
  • Help Advance the Pipeline: Support CMC and Research & Development teams on CRO and CDMO agreements.
  • Contract for Compute: Negotiate the cloud, compute, and infrastructure agreements that underpin insitro's machine learning platforms.
  • Build for Scale: Own and improve contract templates, trainings, playbooks, approval workflows, and CLM tooling so routine work moves faster with less legal involvement.
  • Build and deploy AI Tools: Put AI tools to work inside the Legal function to accelerate contract review, drafting, and knowledge management.
  • Counsel and Advise: Depending on your experience and capabilities, scope may also include data privacy and compliance support, clinical trial contracting, corporate and governance support, or mentorship of junior colleagues.

Qualifications

  • Proven Tenure: 2–7+ years practicing law, with a combination of law firm and in-house experience or exclusively in-house experience.
  • Bar Admission: J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and admission in good standing to at least one State bar, preferably California, or eligibility for California registered in-house counsel status.
  • Contracting at Volume: Demonstrated track record drafting and negotiating commercial and technology agreements at volume, with increasing independence.
  • AI in Practice: Proven track record using AI tools in legal practice, contract review and drafting, research, and workflow automation, with sound judgment about their limits and appropriate use.

Skills

Required:Contract drafting and negotiationAI tools for legal practiceCommercial and technology contracting

Benefits

  • 401(k) plan with employer matching
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Mental health and well-being support
  • Open, flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave of at least 16 weeks to support birth mothers and 10 weeks for new parents
  • Quarterly budget for books and online courses for self-development
  • New hire stipend for home office setup
  • Monthly cell phone & internet stipend
  • Free onsite baristas and daily lunch for onsite or hybrid employees
  • Free commuter bus network to South San Francisco HQ from various Bay Area locations
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About insitro

Making Medicines Differently

At insitro, we are building a different kind of drug company to bring better drugs faster to the patients who can benefit most. Through the power of machine learning (ML) and data at scale, we decode the complexities of biology to unlock transformative new medicines.

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