Legal counsel - Life sciences (CDD - 6 months)

Owkin • Paris, France • 1m ago

About us

Owkinis an agentic AI company on a mission to explore complex biology to speed up and scale research for the creation of new treatments and diagnostics for patients. Owkin K, our AI co-pilot combines unparalleled access to multimodal data, cutting-edge AI to understand biology and pioneering agentic AI to achieve Biological Artificial Superintelligence in the future.

Owkin is comprised of a group of specialized companies that work seamlessly together, combining deep expertise with a shared mission to accelerate biological discovery. Owkin K is the technology foundation of our ecosystem, it provides cutting-edge co-pilots incorporating high-quality data infrastructure and AI tools to power breakthroughs for researchers, customers and our companies.

Owkin has raised over $300 million through investments from leading biopharma companies, including Sanofi and BMS, and venture funds like Fidelity, GV and Bpifrance, among others.Owkin is seeking the best and brightest to join our fast-growing and dynamic team.

About the role:

As a legal counsel, covering maternity leave for a period of 6 months, you’ll be part of the Data access and Privacy legal team, responsible for reviewing all data access, IT, consultancy and confidentiality agreements. You will also participate actively in the transparency and anti-gift compliance, performing the necessary declarations and advising internal clients on the anti-gift limitations and transparency requirements.

In particular, you will:

provide effective support to the legal team and in particular to the team dedicated to data access, data privacy, IT, transparency and anti-benefits.
more specifically:
- draft, review and negotiate, under the supervision of the VP Legal - head of data access and data privacy, a broad range of agreements linked to our compliance activities with a primary focus on consultancy agreements, data access agreements and non-disclosure agreements
- liaise with internal teams (Procurement, Marketing, Finance, People team, Partnerships…) on contracts and specific issues (contract interpretation and/or explanation, definition and implementation of processes, etc.)
- support the legal team on compliance matters (Transparency, Anti-Gifts, personal data re-use)
- support the legal team in its cross borders compliance to applicable laws, by:
  - reviewing memos from law firms,
  - summarizing the memos in a table and find ways of improvement of the existing tools with a refreshing view on our cross border laws tools,
  - participate in the analysis of new regulations applying to Owkin when opening new countries (pre analysing regulations, participation in the law firm selection…)
- regularly contribute to and refine Owkin’s templates, policies and processes, in particular regarding transparency and anti-benefits issues
- maintain and update templates and clauses library / Support legal intelligence initiatives .

The position is based in our beautiful Paris offices, 75009.

About you

Required qualifications / experience:
- Native or fluent french;
- Fluent English (Oxford: C1 or equivalent);
- Autonomy, rigor, intellectual curiosity, team spirit, initiative;
- Excellent writing skills;
- Academic background in French law (university degree);
- Basic knowledge in Data privacy and transparency/anti-benefits;
- Two (2) years' experience minimum as a full time legal counsel or lawyer in an international company, ideally within the tech or healthcare sector.

Preferred qualifications/bonus:
- Masters in Life Sciences and/or Regulatory affairs,
- Double degree / LLM, training in common law or comparative law appreciated.

Please submit your CV in English

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What we offer

Flexible work organization
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

Please complete the form and submit your CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
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