Paralegal and Legal & Compliance Operations Manager

The posting, as Genetix Biotherapeutics wrote it

About Genetix Biotherapeutics

At Genetix Biotherapeutics every role has meaning, every team member is respected, and every day is a chance to make a difference. When you join Genetix, you're not just landing a new role, you become part of a company that's pursuing curative gene therapies to give patients and their families more days. We are doers, thinkers and collaborators who embrace and live by our values:

Our innovation is rooted in the diversity of our teams and results are achieved through cooperation and the integration of multiple viewpoints. This is personal and we approach every challenge with radical care.

This is a full-time hybrid position (3 days a week) in our Somerville – Assembly Row, Massachusetts office.

Position Description

The Paralegal and Legal & Compliance Operations Manager pairs substantive paralegal work with ownership of the operational engine behind the Legal and Compliance function. This position will manage the contract lifecycle, corporate governance records, and entity administration; execute the recurring obligations of the healthcare compliance program, including federal and state transparency reporting, engagement documentation, exclusion screening, policy administration, and training; and own the systems, calendars, metrics, and vendor relationships that allow a lean department to operate at commercial scale.

This position is well suited to an experienced in-house paralegal who is seeking a broader remit than a traditional paralegal seat, or to a compliance operations professional who brings strong transactional and governance experience. The role is an individual contributor position with significant autonomy and cross-functional visibility.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Contract Lifecycle and Transactional Support (approximately 30 percent)

• Serve as day-to-day administrator of the contract lifecycle management system, including intake triage, routing, template selection, version control, execution through the electronic signature platform, and post-execution filing and obligation tracking.
• Prepare first drafts of routine agreements from approved templates, including confidentiality agreements, consulting and advisory board agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, speaker agreements, data use agreements, and business associate agreements.
• Coordinate review across Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, Quality, and Privacy, and escalate non-standard terms and playbook deviations to the responsible attorney.
• Maintain the contract repository, the signature authority matrix, and the renewal and expiration calendar, and give business owners advance notice of upcoming decision points.
• Support qualified treatment center agreements, payer and outcomes-based agreements, clinical trial and site agreements, and vendor onboarding documentation at the direction of the responsible attorneys.

Healthcare Compliance Operations (approximately 30 percent)

• Own the operat

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• Hybrid schedule based at the company's Somerville, Massachusetts headquarters, with on-site presence expected [three] days per week.
• Occasional travel, estimated at less than ten percent, for company meetings, industry congresses, and monitoring activities.
• Prolonged periods of computer-based work.
• This position has no direct reports.
• The person in this role is not authorized to practice law or to provide legal advice, and performs all substantive legal work under the supervision of a licensed attorney.

Additional Information

The pay transparency range provided below is based on what we believe is a reasonable estimate for the base salary pay range for this job at the time of posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for an annual bonus and long-term incentive. Actual base salary pay will be based on several factors, including but not limited to experience, skills, relevant education/qualifications, external market, internal equity, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

Genetix’s total rewards package also provides employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits suite to support a variety of employee needs. These benefits include comprehensive health, life and disability insurance, employer-matched 401(k) plan, lifestyle spending account, flexible time-off + paid holidays and winter holiday period, tuition reimbursement & loan repayment assistance, paid parental leave, paid onsite parking, commuter subsidy, and much more.

Pay Transparency
$120,000 — $155,000 USD

Genetix is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.