Sr Paralegal

Dexcom • San Diego, CA

11d • $40 - $66 • Hybrid

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. The Senior Paralegal 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 and manages transaction materials, timelines, coordination, research, and related workstreams. The primary 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 the assigned Dexcom site, typically within 75 miles/120 km. Travel required is 0–5%.

Requirements

• 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.
• Relevant paralegal or corporate legal experience, including substantial hands-on experience supporting M&A, strategic ventures, investments, financings, and other complex corporate transactions.
• Ability to understand the lifecycle of a corporate transaction and independently manage diligence, signing, closing, and post-closing workstreams.
• 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, strong relationship-building and collaboration skills, and the ability to protect confidential information.
• Strong work ethic and a hands-on, service-oriented mindset; proactive, resourceful, accountable, and able to take ownership of work through completion.
• Ability to learn new subject areas and transaction-management and entity-management tools, and to seek guidance when appropriate.
• Bachelor’s degree and/or paralegal certificate, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Must live within commuting distance of the assigned Dexcom site, typically 75 miles/120 km.

Nice To Haves

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

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 reliably.
• 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, including organizing calls and maintaining 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 changing priorities in a fast-paced transactional environment.

Benefits

• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

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