Senior Legal Counsel - Intellectual Property
Role and Responsibilities
DASSAULT SYSTEMES, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides businesses and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Serving over 250,000 clients in 11 industries, from high-tech to life sciences, fashion to transportation, we help businesses and people around the world to create sustainable innovations for today and tomorrow
DASSAULT SYSTEMES is looking for a motivated SR. Legal Counsel – Intellectual Property to join our Legal team in our Waltham, MA office, in an onsite/hybrid role.
As a member of our North American legal team, you will be part of the Intellectual Property team providing support on a wide range of IP-focused issues in varied areas, including managing IP contractual matters, M&A due diligence, IP litigation, and handle other legal responsibilities.
· In close relationship with the Research and Development teams, draft and negotiate various in-bound licensing agreements for third party software components included in Dassault Systèmes Group products
· Provide IP-related support to the Legal Department on other types of agreements, such as partnerships, outbound licenses and services agreements
· Facilitate feedback and approval from internal cross functional groups
· Assist in the growth-related operations of the Group, including M&A due diligence, integration of IP related operations, etc.
· This is not a patent-focused role; admission to the patent bar is not required.
Qualifications
· Juris Doctor from an accredited US law
· Admission to Massachusetts, California or other state bar in the U.S.
· 6+ years of legal experience at either a law firm or in-house, or both focused on Technology agreements
o We will consider candidates having a combined 6+ years of work experience balanced between a legal role and a technical background
· Hybrid work at DS local office
· Consistently demonstrates the highest level of integrity without compromise with regards to ethical standards
- Knowledge and experiences with open source software and negotiation of commercial software contracts
- Self-starter, autonomous, and rigorous team player
- Process-driven and work to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of providing legal support to internal DS stakeholders
- Ability to work independently and/or within a collaborative team structure
- Positive, self-motivated individual with high level of enthusiasm and willingness to learn and incorporate coaching and instructions into daily tasks and assignments
- Highly organized with critical attention to details
- Possess new technology curiosity and a history of self-technical education; you are not nervous about what you don’t know in technology, but excited about it due to your curiosity
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Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience. The total expected compensation range will be between $160,000 - $190,000, representing the base salary (or annualized salary based on estimated hourly compensation) and target bonus.
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Compensation & Benefits
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, we bring value to more than 350,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries. Join our global community of more than 23,800 passionate individuals!