Patent Counsel - San Francisco, United States - Meta

Description

Meta seeks a highly-motivated, team player to serve as Patent Counsel on the Patent & Trade Secret Team.

This position will help counsel clients on patent and trade secret risk, advise on intellectual property strategies, and manage the patent portfolio activities for certain technology areas and will report to the head of Patents & Trade Secrets.

You must have the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment and work proactively with various teams across the organization including Legal, Product, and Engineering.

This is a great opportunity to join a world-class legal team and work on cutting-edge issues in an exciting, fast-paced environment.

Patent Counsel Responsibilities:

Work with legal, product, and engineering teams to mitigate IP risk and protect products, services, and technologies that map to Meta's intellectual property strategy
Understand Meta's strategic and competitive position and think at a high level about patent and trade secret strategy
Work collaboratively with clients and manage outside counsel and service providers to support patent and trade secretrelated work
Train, educate, and counsel product, engineering teams, and other partners in intellectual property matters
Support IP aspects of technology transactions, as well as patent acquisitions, licensing, and litigation

Minimum Qualifications:

J.D. Degree (or foreign equivalent) and membership in at least one U.S. state bar
3+ years of patent prosecution experience
Effective communication, negotiation, and collaboration skills
Experience to adapt and prioritize in a fastpaced environment, maintaining bigpicture focus on company goals
Experience with artificial intelligence, virtual/mixed reality, augmented reality, web technologies, social products/technologies/platforms and/or the mobile space

Preferred Qualifications:

Inhouse experience, especially strategic risk mitigation and patent portfolio development and counseling of R&D leadership
BS or graduate degree in computer science or electrical engineering
Eligible to practice before the US Patent and Trademark Office
Experience with the full lifecycle of patent portfolio development, maintenance, and divestiture
Experience with IP and patent transactions and litigation
Knowledge of physics, optics, chemistry, or related engineering fields, either through degrees conferred or significant industry experience

About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world.

Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.