Corporate Counsel

The posting, as Ginkgo Bioworks wrote it

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.

Ginkgo Introduction: Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is the world leader in automation of biological workflows. We offer autonomous laboratories that replace manual laboratory work with robotics in the lab and have also built an in-house autonomous lab on which we run our own programs, as well as, make available to companies and organizations for use as a "cloud lab." These innovations allow scientists to run more experiments, run them faster, and more reliably, accelerating scientific discovery across multiple industries.

Team Introduction: As a member of our Corporate Legal Team, you will be focused on providing creative solutions to help drive these groundbreaking endeavors at Ginkgo, and we’re seeking a talented, motivated, and energetic Corporate Counsel to join our team. Candidates should have enthusiasm for exploring with internal clients business-oriented solutions to problems, in a manner that incorporates sound legal advice. In particular, you’ll support the growth of our business by overseeing business development transactions, supporting and advising our operations, leading and negotiating agreements, engaging with existing collaborators, architecting the legal framework for new offerings and more. With your in-depth legal experience in supporting business development, logistics, and customer relationships in the life sciences and biotechnology space, your role will be critical to Ginkgo’s success.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree
• JD and licensed to practice law in the United States
• 3+ years’ experience practicing law in a law firm and/or a corporation
• Expectation to be on-site 5 days/week

Responsibilities

• Lead and negotiate a wide range of agreements with customers, vendors, industry partners, and suppliers—including hardware purchasing agreements, collaboration and licensing agreements, software and SaaS agreements, master service agreements, material transfer agreements, and procurement contracts.
• Engage cross-functionally with business development, commercial operations, finance, human resources, and technical program teams to provide balanced legal advice that manages risk while enabling business opportunity in a compliant manner.
• Transact across our several business units by reviewing term sheets, conducting diligence activities, and drafting and negotiating transaction documents from start to finish.
• Strengthen Ginkgo's legal infrastructure by growing our internal repository of agreement templates, models, guidances, and professional development materials.
• Guide commercial operations and alliance management to establish and maintain strong partnerships with exis

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nal and external counterparts. Dedication to making biology easier to engineer.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.

The base salary range for this role is $144,400–$217,200. Actual pay within this range will depend on a candidate's skills, expertise, and experience. We also offer company stock awards, a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision coverage, health spending accounts, voluntary benefits, leave of absence policies, 401(k) program with employer contribution, 8 paid holidays in addition to a full-week winter shutdown and unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

Ginkgo has implemented a return to office policy effective October 1, 2025 with required in-office days 5x per week. Some teams may require to be onsite 4-5 days per week and this will be discussed as part of the interview process. This policy applies to all employees who live within 50 miles of Ginkgo’s offices in Boston, MA, Emeryville, CA and West Sacramento, CA.

It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.

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