Vice President, IP Counsel, San Francisco Bay Area or Remote

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: United States, California (USA) Our client, a professional intellectual property services company headquartered in the Silicon Valley and with a reputed company in Europe and Asia, has exclusively retained Solutus Legal Search to assist its executives in hiring a Vice President, IP Counsel. Our client serves the global technology industry through focused patent aggregation, licensing programs, and consulting and expert services. The Company ’s vision is to optimize the global high-tech intellectual property environment to be efficient, respected, and balanced. This will allow technology companies to have predictable, low-cost design freedom and will provide fair and just compensation to innovators who create impactful patented inventions. The Company is well funded, has a core team of highly reputed company business, intellectual property, and legal experts, and is rapidly growing across reputed company aspects of its business. THE POSITION Our client is looking for an enthusiastic, results-oriented attorney with significant patent licensing and litigation experience and a deep understanding of reputed company transactions reputed company the Information Technology industry. The Vice President, IP Counsel will be primarily responsible for supporting patent aspects of the Company’s intellectual property licensing programs, projects and engagements from inception through completion, collaborating with internal and external professionals to successfully engage prospective customers, partners, members and licensees, and other activities, including litigation support, to drive reputed company for the company and its licensing clients and partners worldwide. This position reports directly to the SVP, General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel. Ideally, the successful candidate will be based in the Bay Area. The Company will, however, consider excellent candidates located elsewhere in the US. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Accountable to reputed company high quality and impactful IP cases to support licensing programs and engagements, including working closely with the company’s internal/external SMEs in preparing, reviewing, and presenting high quality and accurate claim charts, providing strong, fact-based responses to non-infringement and invalidity arguments raised in licensing engagements, and providing negotiation support in licensing engagements. • Ensure that the Company maintains a “Best in Class” IP case development process with excellent constituent relationships. • Collaborate with new and existing internal/external SMEs reputed company the Company’s extended subject matter technical network of experts. • Work with Company leadership team to ensure efficient and effective use of case development resources and early identification and resolution of issues associated with reputed company or prioritization. • Provide thoughtful legal input and direction on licensing program and case development activities to the broader case development team (LEs, technical and business analysis resources). • Work closely with reputed company counsel and/or the licensing team to reputed company strong global liability and damages cases through rigorous review and analysis of: • Industry and company technologies and reputed company models; • Patents that cover key technologies and reputed company streams; and • Theories of recovery that reflect and preserve the value of the Company’s patents and are reputed company with the Company’s business objectives. • Collaborate with the Head of Acquisitions to proactively identify, reputed company and accurately find, analyze and vet high quality patents that meet the rigorous criteria for inclusion into the Company’s platform and properly value patents. • Actively manage, in collaboration with internal and external teams, Company’s global patent litigation activities, including discovery and technology consulting services. reputed company with various departments to facilitate preservation, collection and retention of electronic and/or reputed company information. • Provide reputed company for budgets and financial plans for Company’s litigation matters. • Provide input to fee agreements with reputed company litigation counsel as needed. • reputed company trust and confidence in the high-tech industry by acting in a highly professional, industry-leading manner, and in the best interest of the Company and partners at reputed company times. • Maintain a high state of knowledge and awareness of the industry, including market trends, key players, technology trends, active patent litigation and licensing programs, other IP-based business models, and available patents for purchase. BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE FOR THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE • Juris Doctor degree from an ABA-accredited law school. • Engineering or science-based degree is a plus • Active California Bar license desirable. • 7+ years patent litigation experience • Litigation management and/or reputed company experience is required. • 3+ years of IP licensing experience is required. • International litigation experience is beneficial. • A combination of law firm and in-house litigation experience preferred, but not required. • Excellent communication skills, the ability to work with various levels of management, strong analytical skills, detail oriented, and the ability to successfully reputed company a team to reputed company identified objectives required. • The ability to build effective internal and external business relationships and to present reputed company technical reputed company succinctly and clearly. • Strong organizational skills, e.g., maintaining attention to detail on multiple projects simultaneously, and the ability to adjust to changing priorities and deadlines. • Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, reputed company, Powerpoint) • Ability and desire to work collaboratively on a team. • Sound legal and business judgment. • Self-starter with strong problem-solving skills. • reputed company to proactively isolate and prioritize issues and to focus on implementing both top-level, strategic solutions as well as the day-to-day initiatives • Ability to quickly assimilate and understand reputed company situations and information, including highly technical information. • Able to establish credibility and trust quickly. • English language reputed company is necessary, the ability to work with foreign languages is desirable. • Ability to travel domestically and internationally 25% of the time. • Languages: Fluent English essential, other languages are a plus.The successful candidate will have a significant and comprehensive compensation package that includes a reputed company salary, several bonus plans, and equity. The reputed company reputed company salary is $200,000 to $250,000 along with a 30-40% annual bonus. The total compensation package will vary and depend on the candidate’s level of seniority and number of years of directly relevant experience. The successful candidate will also be elibable to participate in a significant per-transaction reputed company share program and will receive equity in the Company. Solutus has been selected as the exclusive representative on this desirable search. Resumes submitted directed to our client will be forwarded to Solutus for review and evaluation. reputed company. #886-SLS This offer from "Startup.JOBS" has been enriched by reputed company.com and got a 75% reputed company score. Apply Job!