VP, Associate General Counsel

About Karius

Karius is a venture-backed life science startup focused on transforming the way infectious diseases are diagnosed. Combining next-generation sequencing and proprietary data analysis, we can identify over 1,000 pathogens from a single blood sample with a typical turnaround time of one business day. By unlocking the information present in microbial cell-free DNA, we're helping doctors quickly solve their most challenging cases, with a future vision of accelerating clinical trials, discovering new microbes, and reducing patient suffering worldwide.

We’re looking for a thoughtful, collaborative, pragmatic, and experienced attorney to help support the company as it expands its commercial footprint in domestic and international markets. Reporting to Karius’s Chief Legal Officer, the preferred candidate will primarily serve as the senior legal advisor to the executive and commercial leadership teams on legal, healthcare compliance, and privacy matters related to the Company’s commercialization strategies, tactics, and operations.

The right individual will thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and exhibit uncompromising ethics, excellent communication and influencing skills, as well as sound judgment to effectively balance risk mitigation and achievement of business objectives.

Karius aims to conquer infectious diseases through innovations around genomic sequencing and machine learning. The Company’s platform is already delivering unprecedented insights into the microbial landscape, providing clinicians with a comprehensive test capable of identifying more than 1000 pathogens directly from blood, and helping industry accelerate the development of therapeutic solutions. The Karius Spectrum TestTM we provide today is one of the most advanced solutions available to physicians who aim to deliver better care to many otherwise ineffectively treated patients.

Our test is the result of incredible work done by our scientists, statisticians, engineers, and physicians, all driven by the same mission. You, as part of the Karius team, will be able to see how your work directly has a life-changing impact on people and at scale.

Reports to: Chief Legal Officer

Location: Redwood City, CA (Hybrid) or Remote (USA)

• Advise the Company and Commercial Leadership team on legal issues related to product development, scientific exchange, pricing, market access, strategic partnerships, and sales and marketing strategies and tactics to mitigate legal risk as the business scales in domestic and international markets.
• Oversee the development, implementation, and documentation of Karius’s healthcare compliance and privacy programs, including identifying areas of risk, developing policies and procedures, deploying appropriate training, conducting periodic monitoring, auditing, and investigations, implementing necessary corrective action programs, providing routine updates to the Company’s Leadership regarding healthcare compliance matters, in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Partner in the development and review of externally facing communications, including marketing materials, press releases, social media engagements, field sales customer engagements (speaker bureaus, launch tactics, pricing discussions), market access materials, medical affairs customer engagement (KOL interactions, publications, advisory boards, medical education, investigator-initiated grants, research collaborations).
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on the development of communications and responses to healthcare regulatory authorities, related to the Company’s commercial activities, privacy, and healthcare compliance matters.
• Advise and develop compensation plans and policies regarding field sales, and customer targeting.
• Maintain current knowledge of applicable federal and state laws related to the commercialization of diagnostics and operations of healthcare compliance and privacy compliance programs and provide cross-functional education to inform strategic decision-making and mitigate operational legal and compliance risk.
• Advise regarding healthcare…