Director, Corporate Counsel

Role Summary

Director, Corporate Counsel, in Regeneron's Contracts Group within the Transactions Law Group, will draft, review and negotiate a wide array of information systems and technology contracts and provide related counsel. The role requires strong drafting and negotiation skills and a solid understanding of information technologies, data privacy, and artificial intelligence, with life sciences experience preferred. The position directly supports Regeneron's science and research by enabling business transactions and technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, negotiating and bringing to execution cloud (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS) and software license agreements, hybrid cloud agreements, and consulting and professional service agreements critical to Regeneron's operations throughout the company.
• Providing legal support and counsel for software applications, data feeds and analytics, infrastructure applications, information security, telecommunications and telephony, consumer-facing apps, and other information technology tools used throughout Regeneron, including for research, development, clinical, manufacturing, commercial, and general administrative services organizations, whether as discrete applications or an integrated enterprise resource planning platform, often as a licensee of the technology and within a regulated environment.
• Advising on artificial intelligence to the business and interacting with the AI Governance Committee.
• Advising on other current and potential legal and commercial issues with industry-specific knowledge and transactional guidance.
• Working collaboratively with other organization groups, including the Privacy Group and the Compliance Group, Risk Management and Global Procurement.
• Advising internal clients on Regeneron’s contracts policies and practices and applicable laws.
• Counseling client business teams on applicable legal risks and statutes.

Qualifications

• Required: 4 to 10 years legal experience at a law firm and/or in-house, including strong corporate law experience.
• Required: Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including significant presentation capabilities.
• Required: An attention to detail and appetite for learning.
• Preferred: Licensed to practice law in New York or be eligible for licensure as in-house counsel.
• Preferred: Familiarity with information technology, life sciences and privacy law; experience negotiating from a licensee position.

Skills

• Contract drafting and negotiation
• Legal advisory and counseling
• Knowledge of information technology, software licensing, data privacy, and AI
• Collaboration across privacy, compliance, risk management and procurement teams
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Education

• BA/BS and JD from an accredited law school