Sr Paralegal

DexCom • San Diego, CA

10d • Remote

About The Position

The Senior Paralegal works closely with attorneys on partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, strategic ventures, investments, and other complex business transactions. The role regularly interacts with business stakeholders, finance, tax, compliance, outside counsel, and other Legal Department teams. It supports transactions from initial diligence through closing and post-closing integration, maintaining accurate records, anticipating next steps, and ensuring deliverables and deadlines are met. Success requires a strong work ethic, exceptional attention to detail, sound judgment, reliability, and a proactive approach.

The position supports domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, manages transaction materials and workflows, tracks deadlines and open items, coordinates execution among internal and external parties, and reviews and organizes ancillary documents. It also conducts factual and legal research, prepares summaries and reports, and helps improve templates, playbooks, processes, and transaction-management tools. The role requires ownership of assigned workstreams and the ability to respond efficiently to shifting priorities in a fast-paced transactional environment.

The primary work location is a home office, with no assigned workstation. The employee will work with their manager to determine office visit needs and must live within commuting distance of their assigned Dexcom site, typically 75 miles/120 km. Travel required is 0–5%.

Requirements

• Relevant paralegal or corporate legal experience, including substantial hands-on experience supporting M&A, strategic ventures, investments, financings, and other complex corporate transactions.
• Understanding of the lifecycle of a corporate transaction and ability to independently manage diligence, signing, closing, and post-closing workstreams.
• Ability to learn new subject areas, use transaction-management and entity-management tools, and seek guidance when appropriate.
• Strong work ethic and hands-on, service-oriented mindset; proactive, resourceful, accountable, and able to take ownership through completion.
• Ability to manage multiple complex matters under tight deadlines, prioritize effectively, and remain responsive and composed as circumstances change.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and quality control, with the ability to produce accurate, complete, and polished work.
• Clear and professional communication skills, ability to build strong working relationships, protect confidential information, and collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certificate, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5–8 years of related corporate legal or paralegal experience, including significant experience supporting M&A, strategic ventures, and other corporate transactions.

Nice To Haves

• A combination of law firm and in-house experience is strongly preferred; law firm and in-house experience are preferred.
• Familiarity with data-room platforms, e-signature tools, entity-management systems, and Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Support domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments, joint ventures, venture financings, and other corporate transactions from diligence through closing and post-closing matters.
• Manage transaction checklists, data rooms, diligence requests, disclosure schedules, signature packets, closing deliverables, and post-closing obligations accurately and follow through on them.
• Track deadlines, identify open items and potential issues, follow up with responsible parties, and keep attorneys and business stakeholders informed of status and next steps.
• Coordinate transaction execution across internal functions, counterparties, outside counsel, investors, and other third parties; organize calls and maintain action-item lists.
• Review and organize ancillary transaction documents, including confidentiality agreements, consents, approvals, certificates, resolutions, officer documents, signature pages, and closing binders.
• Conduct factual and legal research, prepare summaries and reports, and help develop and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and transaction-management tools.
• Take ownership of assigned workstreams, exercise sound judgment, and respond efficiently to shifting priorities in a fast-paced transactional environment.

Benefits

• Full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• Opportunity to work at an innovative, industry-leading organization committed to employees, customers, and the communities it serves.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior