Senior Director And Associate General Counsel Intellectual Property Technology Ip Practice

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Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Technology IP
The candidate will lead a team of people managers and individual contributors by providing leadership, empowerment, and coaching for your team in a globally matrixed environment, inspiring your team to perform at their best, optimizing their growth opportunities and capabilities to contribute and operate in the global IP environment. Includes passionate engagement as a member of Genentech’s IP Leadership team, the extended IP Leadership team, the Genentech legal department, and global legal and patent departments. Develop and drive practice area strategy for our Technology IP team that is high value, business enabling, and global in impact and alignment across our sister companies. Actively partner effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the global organization and across all phases of research, drug development and commercialization to provide business enabling strategy, counseling, and options. Leading change in substantive practice and operational model to create value and mitigate risk using fit-for-purpose solutions while delivering high-quality legal strategy and counsel. Sustainably building enduring, productive external relationships with outside counsel and third-party collaborators and partners. Leading and managing a team of 10 patent attorneys and agents, including other people managers, in the design and delivery of global IP portfolios directed to manufacturing, platforms, antibody engineering, software, digital health, personalized healthcare, and technology-based innovation; assessing, communicating and mitigating risk, and identifying and exploiting new opportunities and approaches leveraging both knowledge of industry trends and of the competitive landscape across the global Genentech and Roche portfolio. Impacting the business by sensing and proactively seizing opportunities to create value; being an excellent strategist and influencer; displaying and acting with courage and integrity in tackling difficult or challenging issues within as well as beyond the practice area. Proactively evolves and innovates our substantive practices in the Legal practice area or broader Legal Department to meet changing legal and business needs, focusing on solutions that are good for the enterprise rather than particular stakeholders. Developing and deploying strategies, processes, operating standards, and/or practices to ensure the highest quality practices and execution for all aspects of IP portfolios in a high-performing, agile team setting. Prioritizing efforts, creative energy, and attention to ensure robust value-add practices on day to day basis as well as a success across the global company. Acting as a role model in, for example, clear communication, active listening, poise under pressure, solution-oriented mindset, collaboration across local and global teams, preserving in the face of obstacles, tackling new challenges with curiosity and openness to learning, effectively utilizing available resources. Maintaining and sharing deep expertise and knowledge on legal case law, rules, or regulations before the US Patent and Trademark Office as well as other relevant jurisdictional IP offices. Exemplifying winning as “one team” through building effective relationships, communicating, and collaborating enthusiastically across time zones and cultures. Assuring that GNE remains a great and fun place to practice IP law. Developing and implementing global IP strategies or initiatives, both substantive and operational. Leading or directing significant IP transactions including but not limited to due diligence, M&A, complex collaborations, asset acquisitions, and settlement agreements. Leading or directing adverse proceedings including but not limited to US litigation, USPTO adverse proceedings, EPO adverse proceedings, and the like. Leading teams and managing people directly or matrixed. Leading as a member of a legal senior leadership team (e.g., reporting directly to the head of intellectual property practice) within a corporate environment. Should have demonstrated experience and track record of success in Building and leveraging global IP portfolios. Should have 12+ years of experience in biopharma or biotechnology intellectual property portfolio creation, strategy, and counseling. Experience with early stage, clinical development, and launched products, as well as manufacturing and technology-based IP, is required. Should have 5 years of experience in a pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, or biotechnology corporation. Should have an Undergraduate or (preferably) advanced degrees in biological sciences, chemistry, applied mathematics, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, physics, systems engineering, or another area relevant to pharmaceutical IP practice; a strong technological aptitude for learning and working with a range of technologies. Should have admission to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A United States law degree (JD) with a current “good standing” admission to at least one US state bar.

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