Corporate Counsel Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with the State Bar.
• 3 to 5+ years of corporate legal experience (ideally combining law firm training with in-house exposure).
• Experience in manufacturing, dietary supplements, food/beverage, or life sciences is required.
• Demonstrates a "can-do" attitude, with versatility and business acumen to seamlessly shift from drafting routine legal documents to advising executive leadership on complex legal, compliance, and risk matters.
• Resourcefulness and curiosity, with the ability to research and find answers to complex questions.
• Comfortable saying "I don't know the answer to that yet, but I know exactly how to find out."

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, business-oriented legal guidance to leaders across IT, HR, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, and R&D to enable growth while managing risk.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams to understand products, history, and operational workflows to inform legal assessments.
• Act as a project manager to identify when to tackle issues in-house and when to strategically engage, brief, and manage cost-effective outside counsel.
• Directly review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, NDAs, MSAs, and other business documents.
• Modernize the contracting process, templates, and legal operations to keep pace with a fast-moving business.
• Partner with regulatory and quality teams to monitor compliance across a complex manufacturing landscape, including FDA guidelines, FTC advertising rules, Prop 65, SB343, and emerging international labeling standards.
• Oversee and advise on the intellectual property portfolio, including trademarks, patents, and trade secrets, and manage specialized IP counsel for filings and litigation.
• Assist in maintaining corporate governance, designing and reviewing internal compliance programs, and updating corporate policies.
• Partner with IT to define legal risk thresholds, review data-handling disclosures, and refine incident response and breach-notification procedures.

Benefits

• No-cost vision insurance
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Paid company holidays
• Generous paid time off
• Sick leave
• Employee assistance program
• Comprehensive wellness program
• Affordable medical and dental insurance plans
• Supplemental benefits, including Accident, Critical Illness, Hospitalization indemnity plans
• Pet insurance
• 401(k) matching plan