Commercial Counsel

Pulse Biosciences (Nasdaq: PLSE) is a bio-electric medicine company committed to health innovation that has the potential to improve and extend the lives of patients. The CellFX® System will be the first commercial product to harness the distinctive advantages of our proprietary Nano-Pulse Stimulation™ (NPS™) technology. The unique cell-specific effects of the NPS mechanism of action have the potential to significantly benefit patients across multiple medical applications, including dermatology, our first planned commercial application.

We exist to make a positive difference in the lives of patients, physicians, healthcare providers, shareholders and our Pulse Biosciences team members. We take pride in hiring the best and brightest minds to our world-class company. Individuals who are creative, forward-thinking, and who approach challenges with an innovative attitude will excel in our culture.

Position Summary:

The Commercial Counsel will have a unique opportunity to help build the legal function from the ground up while acting as a cross-functional strategic advisor to teams throughout the Company on a wide range of commercial topics, including related privacy and compliance issues. As Commercial Counsel, you will partner with the business to review, negotiate, and draft contracts covering a wide range of business relationships, including our key relationships with manufacturers, suppliers, collaborators, researchers, and customers. S/he will also be responsible for handling pre-litigation disputes and inquiries. This individual will also manage and mature the Legal Operations functional area, with the objective of improving scalability and efficiency across people, processes, and technology tools. This role will be required to work cross-functionally among all departments and interact with a wide variety of business stakeholders, including the Company’s senior leadership team, so the role requires meaningful judgment, discretion, and organizational intelligence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Draft, negotiate, review, maintain, and interpret agreements covering a range of Pulse Bio’s commercial activities around the world (e.g., research agreements, distribution agreements, clinical trial agreements), including international sales of the Company’s platform CellFX System.
• Advise business clients on Company policies, business strategy, and legal issues and risks.
• Exercise sound judgment and provide risk-based advice while ensuring legal and ethical compliance.
• Assist in creating and improving agreements, templates, and policies for Pulse Bio as we develop new products and enter new markets.
• Respond to user, customer and third-party escalations, including trust and safety issues, and recommend policy, content, product, or other solutions that address or mitigate the cause of escalations in a businessfriendly manner.
• Advise on a range of corporate matters, including compliance with applicable laws and regulations as well as subsidiary administration.
• Proactively assist and counsel the business and its employees to address legal, regulatory and reputational concerns relating to key areas of risk for medical device manufacturers, including the federal anti-kickback statutes, domestic and international privacy laws, and anti-bribery/anti-corruption regulations.
• Work with Legal Department leadership to develop and maintain operating norms, policies, and resources.
• Be a thought leader in the department for best practices for Legal Operations and assist with implementation of continuous improvement projects.
• Represent Pulse Bio externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, and opposing counsel, and resolve legal issues using negotiation skills and legal experience.
• Assist with high volume (templatized) legal contracts, including CDAs, MSAs and work orders, purchase agreements, and clinical trial agreements.
• Support the Legal Department in all corporate governance matters and management of entities globally.
• Identify, conceptualize and implement processes and tools for scaling our contracting process.
• Conduct legal research and assist in other legal matters as and when assigned by the General Counsel or as otherwise needed.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Top academic credentials from a leading law school (J.D. or equivalent).
• Membership in a U.S. state bar, or otherwise qualified to be a registered in-house counsel under California’s multi-jurisdictional practice program.
• 2 to 4 years of experience in a transactional legal practice (some in-house experience at a life-science company preferred).
• Advanced contract drafting experience, especially if demonstrating an orientation to teach and train others.
• Meaningful leadership experience, especially if demonstrating an ability to both influence and accommodate functional stakeholders, while providing clients with pragmatic legal advice.
• Strong command of US and EU laws applicable to the medical device industry or demonstrated interest in developing expertise as a life science counsel (for example, experience with CCPA and GDPR).
• Experience with, and enthusiasm for, negotiating commercial agreements, with an ability to keep complex legal negotiations on-track and on time.
• DocuSign and Agiloft systems experience, implementation of contract management systems, and/or project management training.

Skills, Abilities, and Other Requirements:

• Proficient knowledge and skill in Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word, Excel, etc.).
• Highly adaptable, collaborative, empathetic, and positive.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with flexibility, patience and poise.
• Experienced at reviewing, editing and negotiating complex contracts.
• Tactful, principled and a great communicator, both orally and in writing, for example someone who can both actively listen and communicate legal issues and solutions clearly, concisely and appropriately (e.g., diplomatically) at different levels of the organization.
• Detail-oriented, well-organized, and technically adept.
• Proactive, motivated, nimble, and commercially-minded.
• A strong work ethic and the ability to manage competing priorities, especially someone who has thrived in a fast-paced, lean, entrepreneurial environment.
• Able to work conscientiously and with minimal direction, while using good judgment.
• Able to handle highly confidential information with discretion.
• Able to foster pleasant and productive working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders (e.g., to approach work with modesty, a sense of humor and positive attitude).
• Excited about contributing to Pulse Bio’s mission to improve human health with its first-of-kind proprietary Nano Pulse Stimulation (NPS) technology.
• Ability to travel up to 5% of the time. Overnight and/or international travel may be required.
• Able to lift 15-20 pounds.

Our corporate headquarters is located in Hayward, California. To learn more about us, visit our website at www.pulsebiosciences.com.

At Pulse Biosciences, we are committed to providing a respectful work environment to our diverse workforce. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all persons regardless of race, age, color, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, religion, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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