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SVP/VP, Deputy General Counsel, Healthcare & Commercial Counsel
Taysha Gene Therapies is a patient-centric gene therapy company focused on developing and commercializing AAV-based gene therapies for the treatment of monogenic diseases of the central nervous system in both rare and large patient populations. The company was founded in partnership with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, or UT Southwestern, to develop and commercialize transformative gene therapy treatments. Together with UT Southwestern, we are advancing a deep and sustainable product portfolio of 18 gene therapy product candidates, with exclusive options to acquire four additional development programs at no cost. By combining our management team’s proven experience in gene therapy drug development and commercialization with UT Southwestern’s world-class gene therapy research capabilities, we believe we have created a powerful engine to develop transformative therapies to dramatically improve patients’ lives. In addition to our product pipeline candidates, we are building a platform of next-generation technologies to optimize key components of our AAV-based gene therapies, including redosing, transgene regulation and capsid development.
Position: SVP/VP, Deputy General Counsel, Healthcare & Commercial Counsel
Reports to: Chief Legal Officer
Overview of Position
Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Healthcare & Commercial Counsel will provide legal advice and counsel on applicable statutes and regulations governing interactions with external stakeholders, including health care professionals, patient advocacy organizations, and payors. The Healthcare & Commercial Counsel will provide leadership and legal perspectives on the Company’s pre-commercial and commercial operations, patient support services and medical affairs initiatives, government price reporting, and government affairs activities.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Collaborate with internal clients to develop and implement a corporate compliance program.
- Develops corporate policies, procedures and programs for managing legal risk and ensuring compliance with applicable laws, policies, regulations and governance documents.
- Provides leadership, strategic direction and oversight of day-to-day legal advice, in a pragmatic and collaborative manner, to assist the business in achieving its goals/objectives in a legally compliant and ethical manner.
- Review, analyze and keep current on all federal and state legal developments affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
- Support the Company’s Government Affairs efforts directed toward relevant Federal and State policies and statues and their impact on the Company’s commercialization.
- Advise on and assist in developing and improving compliant business processes and procedures to support new business models.
- Serves as legal advisor to Regulatory, Medical and Patient Affairs clients to support compliant initiatives.
- Serves as legal advisor to Commercial providing legal guidance on activities related to global commercialization of therapies.
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctorate (JD) required.
- 15+ years of relevant legal experience with 10+ years’ experience at a publicly traded commercial pharmaceutical and biotech.
- Successfully created, built and/or managed a corporate legal/compliance organization,
- Demonstrated experience providing counsel regarding the compliant marketing of biologics and/or pharmaceuticals.
- Deep knowledge of biotech product marketing, market access, sales, and reimbursement.
- Experience with government price reporting compliance.
- Experience managing external legal counsel.
- High emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
- Exceptional written and communication skills, including strong proofreading and editing skills.
- Must be a self-motivated, hands-on executive who functions effectively in an entrepreneurial, high-energy team environment.
- Strategic mindset, resourceful with a vast array of legal experience.
- Collaborative, team-based/partnership approach.
- An excellent strategist and negotiator.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of direct management of a legal team/organization
- Rare disease or gene therapy experience
- “Compliance by design” experience
- Privacy law experience
The level of this position will be based on the final candidate’s qualifications.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Taysha is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Taysha are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
