Associate Division Counsel - Sports Medicine

The  Associate Legal Counsel, Sport Medicine, is primarily responsible for proactively handling a broad range of legal and compliance matters associated with the Sports Medicine Business Unit, within the Endoscopy Division, including working closely with business unit leadership, functional partners, and outside counsel on a variety of critical matters for the division. 

This position offers remote work flexibility within the United States.

What you will do:

• Serve as a strategic business partner and advisor to the Sports Medicine Business Unit.

• Effectively communicate with leadership at all levels of the organization, bringing in feedback and gaining alignment from a wide range of functions

• Provide timely analysis and counsel on a diverse range of legal issues

• Independently draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a variety of agreements (e.g., sales, services, supply, distribution, consulting, clinical study, non-disclosure, employment, and other commercial arrangements)

• Analyze and provide clear and concise guidance on laws, rules, regulations, and Stryker policies as necessary, including with respect to the company’s interactions with healthcare professionals

• Collaborate with lawyers and other professionals from Stryker’s Centers of Expertise to manage a variety of significant matters (e.g., strategic contracting, data privacy and security, intellectual property, litigation, employment, and regulatory matters)

• Provide pragmatic and business-relevant assessments of legal risk and exhibit the ability to effectively communicate legal risk to non-legal professionals

• Exercise excellent judgment in identifying and escalating issues to management

• Support the overall objectives of the Sports Medicine Business Unit and Enterprise Governance Department

• Collaborate and communicate with colleagues, management, business partners, and outside counsel

• Assist on other matters as needed

What you need:

Required

• Bachelor's degree

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and admission to practice law.

• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and ability to maintain good standing.

• Minimum of 10 years of legal experience, including advising business leaders on complex legal and compliance matters.

• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing a broad range of commercial agreements.

• Proven ability to assess legal risk and provide practical, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience building strong, collaborative relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and senior business leaders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, legal research, contract drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to integrity, ethics, accountability, and sound professional judgment.

• Ability to communicate complex legal concepts clearly and effectively to non-legal audiences.

Preferred

• Experience supporting medical device, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries.

• In-house legal experience with a medical technology, healthcare, life sciences, or pharmaceutical organization.

• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or other strategic business transactions.

• Experience advising on healthcare laws, regulations, and interactions with healthcare professionals.

• Strong commercial contracting experience, including sales, supply, distribution, consulting, services, and clinical research agreements.

• Experience partnering with business leaders on change management, organizational transformation, or strategic initiatives.

• Experience collaborating with legal specialists in areas such as data privacy, intellectual property, litigation, employment, and regulatory affairs.

• Demonstrated business acumen with the ability to balance legal risk management and business objectives.

• Experience providing legal counsel within a global organization or matrixed corporate environment.

Posted Date: 07/14/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN : $155,900 - $259,700 USD Annual
• US5 : $163,700 - $272,700 USD Annual
• US10 : $171,500 - $285,700 USD Annual
• US15 : $179,300 - $298,700 USD Annual
• US20 : $187,100 - $311,600 USD Annual
• US30 : $202,700 - $337,600 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.