Sr. Intellectual Property Counsel (Biotechnology)

Location: Cambridge, MA, with the ability to work onsite periodically and travel periodically for legal proceedings or other projects.

Base salary: $268,728–$328,446 per year, plus a performance-based annual cash bonus and equity eligibility.

Company

hirify.global develops genome-editing treatments intended to transform the lives of people with severe and life-threatening diseases.

What you will do

• Develop and manage a worldwide IP portfolio focused on CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering, therapeutic applications, and gene-editing pipeline programs.
• Identify patentable inventions with R&D teams and draft, file, and prosecute patent applications through internal and external counsel.
• Advise scientific, business, and legal stakeholders on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, and IP-related risks.
• Conduct landscape, freedom-to-operate, infringement, and validity analyses for research, partnerships, and transactions.
• Support licensing, collaboration, consulting, research, vendor, and manufacturing agreements.
• Manage IP disputes, PTAB challenges, oppositions, outside counsel, employee training, and cross-functional IP integration.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor or LL.M. from an accredited law school.
• Admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and registration to practice before the USPTO.
• 8–10+ years of patent or IP law experience in life sciences, biotechnology, or pharmaceuticals.
• Proven experience in U.S. and international patent preparation, prosecution, and analysis, including FTO, infringement, validity, and risk assessments.
• Strong legal drafting, analytical, communication, leadership, mentoring, and outside-counsel management skills.
• Proficiency with patent searching tools and Microsoft Office Suite.

Nice to have

• Experience with PTAB proceedings, oppositions, or other IP litigation.
• Familiarity with CRISPR-Cas9, gene editing, or therapeutic development.
• Advanced scientific degree in molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, chemistry, immunology, genetics, structural biology, or a related field.
• Experience negotiating, drafting, and interpreting license agreements.

Culture & Benefits

• Work guided by the values One, Explore, Disrupt, and Deliver.
• Opportunity to work across research, business execution, R&D, commercialization, and legal functions.
• Performance-based annual cash bonus and new-hire equity grant.
• Eligibility for annual equity awards, subject to company discretion.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.