Counsel, US Market Access and Operations (Biotech)

Location: Hybrid, based in the Cambridge or Princeton office, with a 70/30 in-office work model. Only U.S. persons are eligible due to U.S. export control requirements.

Salary: $183,800–$330,300 per year, plus potential annual bonus, incentive compensation, or equity.

Company

hirify.global develops mRNA-based therapeutics and vaccines through its mRNA science, delivery technology, and manufacturing platform.

What you will do

• Provide legal advice on fraud and abuse, antitrust, commercialization, and regulatory matters for the U.S. seasonal vaccine portfolio.
• Draft, review, and support negotiations for market access contracts with wholesalers, distributors, retailers, health systems, GPOs, and large employers.
• Advise on pricing strategy, communications, government price reporting policies, methodologies, and regulatory interactions.
• Support federal government vaccine procurement solicitations and government contract compliance.
• Advise on the development and launch of a digital direct purchasing platform and state distribution licensing.
• Collaborate with Compliance on risk mitigation, SOPs, policies, and business decision-making.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and admission to a bar in good standing in at least one jurisdiction.
• At least 8 years of experience in-house or at a law firm supporting the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Experience with legal issues involving marketed pharmaceutical products, including fraud and abuse and antitrust matters.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts, including U.S. payer and channel agreements.
• Strong understanding of pricing and reimbursement in the U.S. pharmaceutical marketplace.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person for access to export-controlled information; non-U.S. persons cannot be sponsored for an export control license.

Nice to have

• Experience with federal government contracting and pharmaceutical government price reporting.
• Experience working with vaccines, wholesalers, distributors, integrated delivery networks, or retailers.
• Experience advising business partners independently with solutions-oriented legal analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration supported through a 70/30 office-based working model.
• Healthcare coverage and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, mental health, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs, plus location-specific benefits.