IP Paralegal

Overview

We're looking for a driven and talented individual to join our growing team at Atlassian in a remote IP Paralegal role based out of the US Pacific timezone focusing on supporting all aspects of the IP function at Atlassian. Reporting to our Head of IP, this is your opportunity to be part of an exciting, fast-growing company with an amazing culture and legal team. 

More About Our Team
We are a tight-knit, collaborative, and communicative team that tackles diverse legal issues and generates balanced, pragmatic business solutions to enable Atlassian to scale.

Responsibilities

In This Role, You'll Get To support the IP team in all aspects such as:

• Support the IP team in day-to-day activities involving all aspects of intellectual property & litigation matters.

• Manage an intellectual property portfolio of patents and trademarks, including assisting in maintaining the patent database and interacting with our outside counsel regarding filings at the USPTO, metrics, inventor incentives, and dashboards.

• Perform various administrative tasks, including managing and tracking deliverables both internally and externally, IP vendor and contractor management, monitoring service desks and triaging incoming IP issues, budget tracking, helping organize team ITGs, and tracking metrics for different IP team functions.

• Support all aspects of IP litigation efforts, e.g. complying with discovery requests, responding to subpoena requests, implementing legal hold procedures.

• Support the open-source program by helping track product compliance with our OSS policy, outreach to engineering teams regarding the policy, and helping organize OSS trainings.

• Collaborate with Legal SMEs to build out and maintain self-serve knowledge base materials.

• Partner with Legal SMEs to drive the IP Training Program, collaborating with business stakeholders to build IP needs into internal innovation events/campaigns, including building out content and coordinating training delivery.

• Champion and cultivate cross-team relationships to organize and manage dependencies.

On Your First Day, We'll Expect You To Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or Associate’s degree in legal services, paralegal certificate from an ABA-accredited program is a plus.

• 5 or more years of experience as a paralegal or equivalent position, with intellectual property and litigation experience being strongly preferred.

• Strong organizational and program management skills.

• Comfortable with learning and using different tools for organization and program management.

• Passion to understand our products, our culture, and our business model.

• Drive to improve on existing systems and methods.

Qualifications

More About You:

• You have a background in supporting IP litigation.

• You are located in the U.S. Pacific timezone.

• Ability to learn new processes, systems, and team culture.

• Willingness to take on projects are they come up and learn new systems/processes.

• You take ownership, roll up your sleeves, and get things done with directional guidance.

• You have the confidence to independently manage complex projects and the drive to build new functionality.

• You can navigate a complex organization and work with ambiguity.

• You have the capability to meet, engage, and build relationships with a broad spectrum of Atlassians across our legal, product, and engineering organizations.  

• You like to master new subject areas, whether new laws, new technologies, or new business strategies.

• You can listen to our business stakeholders with a desire to understand and solve their problems with intelligence and empathy.

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $132,900 - $177,200

Zone B: $119,600 - $159,500

Zone C: $110,300 - $147,100

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

Atlassian offers a variety of perks and benefits to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health coverage, paid volunteer days, wellness resources, and so much more. Visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits to learn more.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.