Qualifications/Experience Required:
Education:
- Juris Doctorate from ABA accredited law school or international equivalent.
- Required certifications: Eligible to practice law in at least one U.S. state. Preferred: registered to practice before the USPTO.
Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years of experience negotiating, drafting, and reviewing complex intellectual property agreements
- Experience managing a sizeable global patent portfolio;
- Experience negotiating commercial transactions, including in the power, renewable energy or oil and gas is strongly preferred;
- Experience with polymers and renewables is strongly preferred.
Required Skills:
- Ability to analyze and summarize complex legal topics, aggregate decision-relevant information to convey messages clearly and concisely, and objectively develop, challenge, and verify conclusions;
- Ability to act autonomously in problem solving and complex, strategic decisions.
- Ability to manage large volume and variety of legal matters with competing deadlines and priorities.
- Comfortable working in cross-cultural teams, collaborating across country boundaries with a sense for diversity and inclusion
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
- The ability to manage internal and external teams while encouraging independent thought and recognizing differing viewpoints.
- Highest standards of ethics and integrity.