Intellectual Property Counsel

Guardant Health Inc. is seeking an experienced and motivated Intellectual Property Counsel to join its IP Team. As a member of the IP Team you will be responsible for providing guidance on a wide range of IP and general legal matters related to the cancer diagnostics field. You will combine your legal and technical knowledge to implement and execute the companys IP strategy for Guardants growing patent portfolio. The technology you will be exposed to is critical to Guardants mission of improving the lives of cancer patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Continue to build and manage a global patent portfolio including preparing and prosecuting patent applications identifying strategic areas for patenting harvesting patentable inventions and evaluating the patentability of invention submissions;
• Collaborate with other members of the IP Team to develop and advise on global patent and IP strategy;
• Oversee and coordinate with outside counsel as necessary with respect to IP protection;
• Perform infringement and validity analyses and evaluate risk mitigation strategies;
• Develop relationships with counsel and educate scientists and other employees on patentrelated matters;
• Partner with relevant stakeholders across the company to provide strategic IP counseling with respect to research and product development;
• Support litigation and other dispute efforts concerning IP;
• Assist with licensing M&A and other commercial transactions as needed.

Qualifications :

• Juris Doctorate from a nationally accredited law school;
• Registration with the USPTO and a member of a state bar (California preferred);
• Advanced degree in Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Computational Biology; Cancer Genomics Genetics Statistics or similar field preferred;
• 5 years of relevant patent prosecution experience at a law firm or inhouse position;
• Experience with drafting prosecuting and reviewing patent applications focused on methods for analyzing genomic data from diagnostic nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) assays;
• Understanding of algorithms and tools used in cancer genomics (e.g. sequence alignment variant calling);
• Familiarity with library preparation methods used to generate NGS data including targeted sequencing wholegenome sequencing methylation sequencing or RNAseq;
• Excellent communicator project manager and team player;
• Strong interpersonal skills and be willing to work closely with scientists managers and employee teams;
• Adaptable flexible and creative in a rapidly changing environment.

Additional Information :

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health we have defined days for inperson/onsite collaboration and workfromhome days for individualfocused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled inoffice days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant our work model has created flexibility for better worklife balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

For positions based in Palo Alto CA or Redwood City CA the base salary range for this fulltime position is $190600 to $257220. The range does not include benefits and if applicable bonus commission or equity.

The US base salary range for this fulltime position is $152480 to $205780. The range does not include benefits and if applicable bonus commission or equity. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries across all US locations for the posted role with the exception of any locations specifically referenced below (if any).

Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including but not limited to jobrelated skills experience and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however there may be exposure to high noise levels fumes and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

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