Intellectual Property Law Director
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Are you passionate about combining your federal procurement law expertise with big picture business thinking to empower innovation, drive critical missions, and deliver enduring growth and value in the federal marketplace? As the leader of Booz Allen's Intellectual Property (IP) Legal Team, you know how to anticipate business needs in the federal space and partner closely with business leaders to develop holistic and integrated strategic approaches to support the full innovation lifecycle. You bring agility and action from the ideation through delivery stage to establish and drive intellectual property (IP) and technology strategy, protect IP rights, and provide legal advice to business leaders across the organization on all aspects of IP, including patents, trade secrets, emerging technologies, copyrights, trademarks, and licensing. You will serve as a key stakeholder in developing the structures needed to support the company's build, partner, invest, buy approach. We need you to drive our purpose-driven, forward-thinking team as we advance our clients' missions by delivering repeatable, scalable products and solutions that leverage dual-use technologies to solve our client's most pressing challenges.

At Booz Allen, you'll lead a team of intellectual property attorneys supporting and shaping the business's efforts to bring bold thinking to complex challenges for a diverse base of public-sector clients stretching across a wide swath of industries, in the U.S. and internationally. You will join a cross-matrixed team of directors, serving as the leader tasked with helping build the framework for delivering enduring solutions that can be monetized, scaled, and delivered across the federal government and into the commercial industry. You will oversee the team of professionals supporting our registered IP portfolio, and partner with the Sector Counsels across each of the three Sectors to evolve and transform our current IP ecosystem. You will work closely with the Deputy General Counsel, Sector Operations and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer to catalyze and operationalize the foundational shifts needed to meet that objective by building risk mitigation into our delivery approach, enhancing our organizational understanding of the critical concepts underpinning this approach and advancing the enterprise to move at the pace of innovation. And you will accelerate the integration of these functions across the legal department to achieve efficiencies that allow the department to move with velocity.

On our team, you'll build trusted partnerships across the firm and collaborate with fellow members of the Legal, Ethics & Compliance team to protect and advance the company, while navigating the complex, multifaceted, and often novel legal and compliance risks we face today. Guided by Booz Allen's purpose and values, together we'll anticipate and proactively prepare for the issues we'll encounter tomorrow.

• 12+ years of experience in IP law at a law firm, in-house corporate, or government legal department
• Experience managing the IP portfolio, including patent and trademark preparation, prosecution, clearance, and third-party IP matters, structuring and negotiating IP transactions of varying complexities, technology licensing, and patent or other IP litigation
• Experience implementing risk-based approaches to processes and procedures to address contractual, regulatory and performance risk through collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Experience counseling on intellectual property and data rights protection under both FAR and non-FAR based contracts and crafting systematic, enterprise-wide solutions for tracking and enabling such IP monetization
• Experience supporting IP guidance and counseling across a broad range of strategic transactions, including investments, partnerships, or mergers and acquisitions
• Experience with managing attorneys, paralegals, and other professionals
• Knowledge of federal procurement laws and regulations FAR, DFARS, federal procurement statutes and regulations, and bid protest jurisprudence
• Ability to listen actively and ensure that the right questions are being asked and answered, and translate technical advice into succinct, clear, and direct business solutions
• Ability to execute against clear objectives, priorities, and success metrics and work under pressure, prioritize and manage the workload and simultaneous tasks, and meet deadlines in a changing, fast-paced environment
• J.D. degree or equivalent degree from country of residence, including active bar admission in any state or the District of Columbia

• Experience with trade secret enforcement
• Experience with copyrights and filings
• Experience commercializing products
• Experience advising on and conversant with IT, cybersecurity, data security, and other highly technical concepts and associated regulatory and contractual requirements
• Experience counseling and advising on product liability mitigation strategies during all stages of the federal procurement or product engineering and development lifecycle
• Experience with government contracting, including in a professional services firm
• Ability to show legal, analytical and business-oriented approach to problem solving at a senior executive level
• Secret clearance preferred