Corporate Counsel - Licensing, Technology Transactions, Business Development

SiLC Technologies - Monrovia, CA

- Mid Level

Monrovia, CA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The position involves providing business-oriented legal advice to management, focusing on actionable insights and recommendations. The role requires close collaboration with business management to develop and implement new business models, ensuring a clear understanding of legal concepts and implications, and formulating negotiation strategies and roadmaps. Responsibilities also include drafting and negotiating a wide range of IP- and technology-related agreements, ensuring proper internal alignment and approval of deals.

Responsibilities

• Provide business-oriented legal advice to business management with an emphasis on actionable insight and recommendations.
• Work closely with business management to develop and implement new business models, ensure understanding of legal concepts and implications, and formulate negotiation strategies and roadmaps.
• Draft and negotiate a broad range of IP- and technology-related agreements, and ensure proper internal alignment and approval of deals.

Requirements

• Juris Doctorate (JD)
• 5+ years of legal experience, preferably in both law firm and in-house corporate legal departments with a focus on technology transactions including IP licenses, joint development agreements, IP purchases and sales, and other strategic alliances.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; active listener.
• Excellent negotiation skills including first-hand experience of leading negotiations with parties across multiple jurisdictions.

Nice-to-haves

• Registered US patent attorney, or substantial experience in patent and trade secret litigation and transactions.
• Licensed to practice in California.
• Technical acumen, and a capacity to quickly learn new business and technology concepts.
• Experience with IP-related investigations and competitive intelligence.
• Experience working with startup companies.
• Familiarity with key US and foreign antitrust and unfair competition issues impacting licenses and other IP transactions.
• Strong intellect and capacity for handling complexity (both in terms of sophisticated legal and business issues and multiple, overlapping projects).
• Sound legal and business judgment, and personal standards of excellence.
• Ability to organize and condense complicated legal and business situations into easily-understandable presentations with clear guidance and recommendations.
• Understand how to translate business needs into contract language, including creativity in finding solutions to help resolve business issues.
• Passionate, proactive, highly-motivated, able to work independently on a wide variety of tasks and drive results.
• Ability to prioritize and manage projects, and shift priorities quickly as business needs evolve.
• Excellent organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to define specific action plans based on general guidance and deliver results.
• Ability to see the big picture and identify and design-out problems from the outset; continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work collaboratively across organizational boundaries, and with a diverse group of colleagues and internal clients in multiple countries.
• Personal presence that inspires trust and confidence; highest integrity; willingness to engage in constructive debate; desire to do things the right way and fortitude to speak out when confronted with challenges.
• Ability to lead, and to perform as part of a team.
• Flexible, personable, and enjoys a dynamic corporate culture.