Convergent Research

General Counsel

• Own Convergent's legal strategy – Set the overall legal and risk framework for the organization and all FROs. Advise the President/CEO and leadership team on significant decisions, structural questions, and areas of legal or regulatory exposure—before they become problems.
• Lead IP strategy and governance – Build and maintain Convergent's IP strategy across the FRO portfolio: when to file, what to protect, how to structure licensing and spinout transactions. Work with FRO CEOs to ensure IP decisions are made deliberately and early. Manage relationships with outside patent counsel and help develop simple playbooks that empower FRO teams to make good disclosure decisions without escalating everything.
• Manage and develop the legal team – Provide strategic direction to the FRO General Counsel and Contracts Counsel. Set clear escalation norms, and ensure the function is operating as a cohesive unit—not a collection of individual contributors.
• Own outside counsel relationships – Manage Convergent's roster of outside counsel across nonprofit law, patents, corporate transactions, employment, and international matters. Negotiate rates, evaluate performance, and make sure the right firm is working on the right matter at the right price point.
• Ensure 501(c)(3) compliance across the portfolio – The disregarded LLC structure protects corporate liability, not tax-exempt status. You'll ensure that FRO activities are monitored for exempt-org compliance, flag risks before they become IRS issues, and maintain strong oversight relationships with specialized outside counsel.
• Navigate international and regulatory complexity – Convergent has UK entities, government-funded FROs, and an evolving set of international relationships. You'll ensure the organization is on the right side of GDPR, OFAC, anti-bribery statutes, and other cross-border requirements.
• Drive deal strategy on complex transactions – Be at the table early on spinout structures, licensing agreements, FRO graduations, and university partnerships—not just at the contract stage. Help shape the deal before the lawyers are handed a draft.
• Build systems and playbooks – Develop the templates, process documentation, and institutional knowledge that let Convergent's legal function scale without scaling headcount linearly. The goal is a legal function that makes the rest of the organization faster, not slower.

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own the close. You oversee monthly reconciliation and close across your FROs — and at the consolidated level, covering treasury, PR/AR/AP, payroll, and other liabilities.
• Keep grant reporting on track. You provide financial oversight for grants and maintain detailed financial reports for FROs and government entities.
• Turn numbers into insight. As first line reviewer of monthly financial reports, you review monthly financials for relevancy, consistency, and completeness — and advocate for changes that make reports actually useful for decision-making.
• Get audit ready. You assist with audit processes– including preparing schedules and supporting 990 filings.
• Bring the whole team along. You make financial insights accessible and actionable — whether you're talking to a scientist, an engineer, or a program lead.
• Strengthen systems and processes. You help improve workflows, maintain SOPs, and keep internal controls tight.

Finance & Accounting Manager

Communications

• Teach FRO teams how to develop a media and communications strategy – Help FRO teams build a real communications strategy — audience mapping, outcome prioritization, content and channel planning. You facilitate; they build. They leave with something they own and can act on.
• Coach FRO CEOs and scientific leaders on media readiness – Prepare FRO leaders to talk to journalists, find their public voice, and think through their Q&A before they're in the room. Some will ask for this; some will need a nudge. You make the coaching genuinely useful, you know when to push, and you know when to stand down.
• Serve as the primary communications resource for FRO teams – Be the first call when an FRO has a communications question, need, or problem. Help them think clearly about what they're trying to accomplish. Connect them to curated vendor and consultant resources. Review anything that carries Convergent's or a funder's name before it goes out.
• Curate and manage the external vendor and consultant network – Build and maintain Convergent's roster of vetted communications vendors — PR firms, video producers, designers, science writers — and help FRO and Convergent leadership navigate it when they need execution support. This isn't about agencies on retainer; it's about a lean, responsive network that can be accessed on demand.
• Own Convergent's internal and FRO-facing communications – Run the newsletter, the FRO update digest, and the internal knowledge base. Keep these consistent, current, and increasingly automated — and build the systems that make them sustainable as the portfolio grows.
• Manage Convergent's owned digital channels – Keep the website current, coordinate social media, and manage the editorial calendar for the Convergent blog and announcements. Serve as the day-to-day internal contact for external web development and multimedia vendors.
• Coordinate press and media for FRO and Convergent announcements – Manage the logistics of press releases, media briefings, and launch announcements. Support executive and FRO CEO media preparation. Maintain relationships with external PR vendors for outbound media work, with clear judgment about where agency value is real and where it isn't.
• Protect the Convergent brand across the portfolio – Ensure external communications carrying Convergent's name or a funder's name meet quality and messaging standards. Part quality control, part relationship-building — you're the person who knows what's going out and flags what needs a second look.
• Leverage AI to scale your reach – Use AI tools for newsletter generation, content summarization, and workflow automation. Help build systems that let Convergent's communications function scale with the portfolio without scaling headcount proportionally.

General Counsel

Finance & Accounting Manager

Head of Communications – Engagement