Legal Counsel, London

Isomorphic Labs; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI health tech company in London seeks a Legal Counsel to support various legal functions, focusing on drug discovery agreements. The ideal candidate will have a law degree and over 3 years of experience in commercial law. This role offers a hybrid working model, requiring office presence three days a week. Join a collaborative culture dedicated to innovative drug design and development.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' post-qualified experience in private practice or in-house.
• Familiarity with drug discovery and development.
• Ability to manage multiple projects under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Support drafting and negotiating a range of agreements.
• Advise on legal queries and communicate legal concepts.
• Build relationships to manage enterprise risks.

Skills

UK-qualified solicitor

Commercial agreements negotiation

Legal operations

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Education

Law degree

Job description

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.

Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting‑edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

Your impact

As Legal Counsel, you will directly impact the company’s future by working closely with, and advising, our AI, Drug Design, and commercial teams.

This role will report to Senior Legal Counsel and provide a unique opportunity to help shape Isomorphic’s legal function. As a member of the IsoLegal team, you will balance strategic contributions with practical tasks, and will build trusted relationships with scientists and engineers, using your knowledge and influencing skills to shape how we build and develop Isomorphic’s business from a legal perspective.

What you will do

• Support drafting and negotiating on a range of agreements such as NDAs, master service agreements, statements of work, data and software licence agreements, R&D agreements, inbound services agreements, collaboration agreements and consulting agreements.
• Assist with advising the business on ad hoc legal queries in a timely manner, including summarising and communicating legal concepts and helping assess and mitigate legal risk.
• Build positive relationships with clients across disciplines to understand and manage enterprise risks, streamline contracting processes and ensure effective collaboration with the legal team.
• Help establish, maintain and improve our standard form agreements, legal and compliance processes, and legal operations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date legal records.
• Deal with evolving areas of law including corporate/commercial, data privacy, technology, and regulatory compliance.

Skills and qualifications

• UK-qualified solicitor, with 3+ years’ post-qualified experience in private practice and/or on an in-house team.
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, with experience in drug discovery and development and CRO/CDMO transactions strongly preferred.
• Experience with legal operations, including impeccable record‑keeping, managing stakeholder approvals and signatures, and driving efficiency in the contracting process.
• Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and legal team members on a broad range of legal matters.
• Strong analytical and organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to grasp legal, scientific and technical concepts quickly.
• Ability to prioritise, work independently and manage numerous simultaneous projects under deadline pressure.

Nice to have:

• Prior in‑house experience at a pharmaceutical, biotech, technology and/or research‑focused organisation working side by side with the wider company stakeholders.
• Desire and ability to identify flexible, creative solutions to complex and difficult challenges, and work in a high‑ambiguity, high‑change environment.
• STEM degree, preferably in life sciences.

Closing date for applications: Monday 10th November 2025.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future‑making science every single day.

Brave Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid work expectation This role will be based in our London office. We follow a hybrid model and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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