Intellectual Property and Product Legal Specialist
Intellectual Property and Product Legal Specialist
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About the role:
Samsaras Legal team strives to create value and ensure that Samsara meets its mission by providing accessible and businessoriented legal guidance. We do so through creative problemsolving excellence and transparency in while exhibiting good judgment in providing ethical and empathetic partnerships across the business.
Samsara is seeking a resourceful and teamoriented project manager to help build and support a growing Product Legal function at a fastpaced technology company. In this role you will manage and drive projects across all areas that the Product Legal team supports including but not limited to intellectual property regulatory compliance privacy and general product counseling. You will work closely with the Product Legal team and other legal functions and business teams to develop implement and maintain appropriate policies and procedures for the company. You will partner with the Product Legal team to oversee outside counsel and manage budgets.
You are someone who loves to investigate the technical details of a complex project or productidentify and assess risks and propose realistic solutions that take into account competingbusiness interests. You will help create and implement processes to ensure alignment with the Companys values and compliance with evolving laws and regulations. You possess a strong sense of ethics and a refined risk tolerance. Your diligence judgment and discretion make you a trusted counterpart in sensitive environments.
Our most successful team members excel in a dynamic fastpaced environment and can drive projects of varying complexity in collaboration with multiple teams. They embrace new challenges and the unexpected and can clearly distill their analysis into actionable and scalable guidance always in consideration of the diverse needs of their business stakeholders. They are willing to jump in to assist their colleagues on any project large or small regardless of whether it falls within their scope of expertise.
This is a remote position open to candidates residing in Canada.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in realworld impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a highcaliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Manage and maintain accurate records and documentation of Samsaras intellectual property portfolio including patents trademarks trade secrets and copyrights
- Develop manage and improve upon workflows related to Samsaras intellectual property portfolio including related to filings dockets deadlines and budgets
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify and protect new products and features as relevant to Samsaras intellectual property portfolio and support training such teams as relevant to protecting and developing Samsaras intellectual property
- Support vendor and software tool operations related to Samsaras intellectual property portfolio including spend tracking coordinating workflows and other vendor and outside counsel management as needed
- Assist with any other legal duties and projects as assigned by the legal team including as needed to support the broader Product legal team
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Minimum requirements for the role:
- 2 years experience at a law firm or inhouse as a paralegal or administrative specialist in the area of intellectual property law especially patents
- Exceptional communication and organizational skills and strong attention to detail
- Experience independently driving complex projects from start to finish in a broad range of subject matters
An ideal candidate also has:
- Experience with an intellectual property program at a SaaS technology company
- Experience with Google Suite IPFolio Atlassian products and Microsoft Office
- Paralegal certification or equivalent experience
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full Time
