Do you want to use your Legal skills to help find treatments for rare disease patients?

About Healx

Healx is an AI-powered biotech company reimagining drug discovery for rare diseases. Over 400 million people worldwide are affected by rare conditions, yet 90% still lack approved treatments.

Our mission is to change this - combining data, technology, and deep scientific expertise to develop treatments faster and more efficiently.

Diversity and inclusion are central to our mission. We believe that building a diverse team—across backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives - is essential to developing better treatments for patients. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and walks of life. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply - we value potential and transferable skills as much as direct experience.

Our Values

• Care for Rare – Rare disease patients are at the heart of what we do

• Grow as individuals – We are learners always seeking to enhance our expertise

• Win as a team – We strive to remain inclusive and diverse and we celebrate successes and lessons together

• Innovate and deliver – Our mission requires rapid innovation and calculated risks that won’t compromise our high standards

The Role

Healx is looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to join the team to manage day-to-day operational Legal activities as we move to our next phase.

This role is a hands-on, generalist role where you will work closely with teams across the business – including research, clinical, partnerships, technology, finance and operations – to provide practical legal support.

Healx has an international outlook, working with partners in countries across the globe to support our drug discovery pipeline. Our team is focused in the UK, Eastern US and Europe.

We are looking for someone who is tech-forward and curious, with a pragmatic approach to using technology and AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, insight, and collaboration, while maintaining strong independent judgement and critical thinking.

Key responsibilities

Contract Management and Team Partnerships

Provide day-to-day legal support and partnership to teams across the business, helping identify legal risks and work with teams to manage them appropriately whilst balancing business interests.

Draft, review, negotiate and execute a range of legal agreements (e.g. NDAs, collaboration agreements, MTAs, MSAs, SSAs, work orders, vendor and consultancy contracts).

Organise and manage filing of all legal contracts, ensuring findability of documents based on the parties to the document, as well as by type of document and date of execution.

Support strategic partnerships, including global academic and industry collaborations.

Develop processes, guidance, policies and templates that support Healx in achieving its objectives.

Work collaboratively with colleagues to embed good legal practices across Healx.

Company Secretarial

Manage company secretarial activities, including compliance filings and reporting of key legal documents, leveraging external counsel as required.

Manage legal aspects of fundraising activities, including coordinating communication with external stakeholders and their legal counsel.

Manage relationships with Healx’s outside legal counsel.

Governance and compliance

Manage compliance activities (e.g. data protection, IP, and research-related requirements, HR, technology).

Tech-forward Legal

Adopt and incorporate GenAI workflows into legal processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency

What success looks like in the next 6 months:

You have:

taken full ownership of the standard contract suite (NDAs, MTAs, MSAs, work orders) end-to-end, and the business comes to you first for these.

reshaped the contract filing and review process so senior leaders can find a contract by party, type or date within minutes

embedded multiple GenAI-assisted workflows into the team's contract review process, with measurable impact on turnaround time

run standard agreements end-to-end without escalation, and have a clear view of which agreement types still need senior input

built relationships so that the research, clinical and partnerships teams come to you directly for legal input and trust your judgement on routine matters

issued statutory filings on time, and board and shareholder records are up to date.

What we're looking for

Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent jurisdiction).

Approximately 5+ years’ post-qualification experience (or equivalent).

Experience drafting and reviewing biotech and other commercial agreements.

Ability to work across a range of legal topics, utilising external counsel where appropriate.

Hands-on and collaborative approach to Legal.

Interest in biotech/ techbio and its impact on improving patient outcomes.

It’s a bonus if you have:

Familiarity with data protection (e.g. UK GDPR) and/or IP considerations.

Global legal knowledge.

Experience working as in-house counsel.

Experience working with outside counsel.

A background in health-tech or life sciences.

Interest in and familiarity with AI tools.

Experience working with Google Workspace, Slack, Confluence, DocuSign, Carta and other relevant tech tools.