# Director, Contracts Counsel

Deciphera, a member of Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing important new medicines and providing hope to people living with cancer, neurologic and autoimmune disease. Deciphera is leveraging its proprietary switch-control kinase inhibitor platform and deep expertise in kinase biology to develop a broad portfolio of innovative medicines. In addition to advancing multiple product candidates from Deciphera’s platform in clinical studies, QINLOCK® (ripretinib) is Deciphera’s switch-control kinase inhibitor approved in many countries including the European Union and the United States for the treatment of adult patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who have received prior treatment with 3 or more kinase inhibitors, including imatinib. ROMVIMZA® (vimseltinib) is a kinase inhibitor approved in the United States for adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT) for which surgical resection will potentially cause worsening functional limitation or severe morbidity, and in the European Union for adult patients with TGCT associated with clinically relevant physical fun

- **Id**: 3411255
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/deciphera-director-contracts-counsel>
- **Role**: Legal
- **Role family**: Legal
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Waltham, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T17:16:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:16:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7612
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Biotechnology, Prescription Drugs, Oncology Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 8871
- **Name**: Deciphera
- **Domain**: deciphera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/deciphera>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

## Salary

- **Min**: 206000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T17:56:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.859
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 41
- **Reasons**: seen:10, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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