Director of Intellectual Property Law

Fortune 500 Seeks Director of Intellectual Property Law (Hybrid)

Are you ready to lead this IT consulting company’s Intellectual Property Legal Team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of innovation in the federal marketplace? My client seeks a dynamic Director of Intellectual Property Law to drive forward-looking strategies, protect intellectual property rights, and provide legal guidance across the organization. From ideation to delivery, you’ll play a key role in establishing intellectual property frameworks, managing a robust portfolio, and enabling scalable, monetizable solutions to solve their clients’ most pressing challenges.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of attorneys and professionals to manage the Company’s IP portfolio, including patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and licensing on behalf of a diverse base of public-sector clients stretching across a wide swath of industries, in the U.S. and internationally.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate risk, enhance IP monetization, and drive enterprise-wide innovation strategies.
  • Oversee IP guidance for investments, partnerships, and acquisitions.
  • Support the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and other stakeholders in building scalable frameworks to accelerate innovation.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • 10+ years of patent law experience (prosecution side preferred) in a law firm, corporate, or government setting.
  • Engineering background in electrical, mechanical, or computer science.
  • Expertise managing IP portfolios (i.e., patents, trademarks, licensing, and litigation), crafting systematic IP monetization strategies, and structuring and negotiating IP transactions.
  • Experience managing teams of attorneys, paralegals, and other professionals.
  • Ability to listen actively and translate technical advice into succinct, clear, and direct business solutions
  • Experience counseling government contractor/defense industry clients is preferred.

We’ve worked closely with this favorite corporate client for 20+ years and have placed 25+ attorneys with them. Attorneys work predictable and reasonable hours on a hybrid schedule of two days a week in the office. **Consistently ranked as a best place to work, best employer for women and diversity, and most innovative and ethical company.

Location Washington

Practice Area Patent

Job Type In-House

Our reference JOB-20369

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