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The Role:

This role is an exciting opportunity to be an important part of a growing legal team within a rapidly expanding international company. Responsibilities will include work on a variety of corporate governance and maintenance matters to support the Legal Department toward the management of Moderna’s subsidiaries in the U.S. and abroad, as well as many opportunities to support corporate legal initiatives and needs. This role reports to the Senior Counsel and is based in Cambridge, MA.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

Support Moderna’s international expansion by:

• managing the formation of new international subsidiaries, including preparing documents checklists, reviewing formation documents (with attorney oversight), obtaining the necessary signatures, and handling the administrative aspects of these tasks, such as preparing courier packages to send the signed documents to local counsel, obtaining apostille seals, and so forth

• monitoring and ensuring compliance with corporate governance requirements, including scheduling board of director and shareholder meetings for each OUS subsidiary, completing required annual registration filings, preparing documents to add or remove directors and officers for each subsidiary as necessary, and maintaining stock ledgers and corporate minute books in

• updating data for each OUS subsidiary in the company’s online entity management system as necessary to reflect the addition of new subsidiaries, changes in officer and director appointments, and other corporate events

• providing the Finance team with legal due diligence items required with respect to OUS subsidiaries for the opening and maintenance of bank accounts, applications for VAT numbers, and other finance initiatives

Support Moderna’s U.S. expansion by:

• assisting the Principal Paralegal (Securities) with the foreign qualification in all 50 states of several U.S. subsidiaries and maintenance of those state qualifications

• providing the Finance team with legal due diligence items required with respect to OUS subsidiaries for the opening and maintenance of bank accounts, applications for VAT numbers, and other finance initiatives

Support the Corporate Legal team by:

• responding to questions from various departments within the organization about Moderna’s corporate structure

• assisting with the maintenance and renewal of all insurance policies and maintaining a central repository for all insurance policies

• providing administrative support as necessary to Senior Counsel, including opening Purchase Orders, setting up new law firms in the new vendor system, and renewing Purchase Orders

• working with other members of the Corporate Legal Team on special projects and initiatives

In carrying out these responsibilities, you will work closely with other members of the Legal Team members of the Finance Team, and senior executives across the Moderna organization. You will also manage international corporate legal counsel in each jurisdiction where Moderna has a subsidiary.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college required

• A minimum of ten (10) years prior experience as a senior paralegal in a public biotech or pharmaceutical company or in a corporate law firm

• Familiarity with corporate governance requirements for US and OUS companies

• Excellent attention to detail

• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify, resolve or escalate issues and potential liabilities in a timely manner

• Effective time management skills, with the ability to balance numerous high-priority competing demands in a high-volume, fast-paced work environment

• A strong work ethic and the ability to take the initiative, a proven ability to work independently with minimal attorney supervision, and to appropriately prioritize in the face of business pressures

• An ability to effectively communicate with colleagues at all levels of the corporate structure and with outside attorneys via email, in person, and by phone

• A commitment to quality, integrity, and respect

• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality

• Familiarity with entity management software, standard office technology and software such as MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint

Here’s What We’ll Bring to the Table:

• On-site subsidized cafeteria or catered lunches
• Company-provided iPhone
• Free parking, monthly subway pass or a subsidized commuter rail pass
• Free annual corporate membership to Bluebikes
• Highly competitive healthcare coverage including: medical offered through BCBS (HMO/PPO), dental, and vision offered through VSP
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
• 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
• 16 weeks 100% paid family caregiver leave
• 20 weeks 100% paid medical leave
• Eligible for “Moderna Month” (one month paid sabbatical after five years of service and eligible for additional one month paid sabbatical every 3 years thereafter)
• Adoption assistance and discounts to local childcare centers, as well as access to care.com
• 401k (traditional and Roth offered) with 50% match on first 6% deferred. Match is vested immediately
• A suite of Moderna paid insurance coverage, including: life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Voluntary legal assistance plan
• 15 days’ vacation and 7 sick days per year, in addition to a discretionary winter shut down and 11 company paid holidays (includes 2 floating holidays)

About Moderna:

In 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a science research-stage company advancing programs in the promising-but-still-unproven field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with its first medicine having treated millions of people, a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across six modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for both clinical and commercial production at scale and at unprecedented speed. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna’s capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use of one of the earliest and most-effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna’s mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and auto-immune diseases. Today, 24 development programs are underway across these therapeutic areas, with 13 programs having entered the clinic. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past six years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com .

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.