IP Tech & Product Counsel

Overview: We are seeking a motivated IP Tech & Product Counsel to provide strategic legal guidance and support to Precisely’s dynamic, innovation-driven, global organization on a variety of intellectual property, technology product development, and product licensing issues, with a particular focus around software, data, and digital/AI technology. This role partners closely with our supplier, product (engineering, product management, and data product), marketing, commercial, compliance, privacy, procurement, legal and security teams to ensure that our products, services and platforms are designed, deployed, contracted and marketed in compliance with IP, data, and regulatory requirements as well as business needs. The ideal candidate will assist senior counsel in appropriately balancing risk while optimizing business growth in providing legal guidance to our global commercial teams and through analysis and negotiation of technology and data licensing related agreements. Additionally, this exciting role includes collaborating with internal business partners, and advising on existing and new product, feature and data development, from conception to pilot to launch, requiring a global mindset and developing knowledge of IP law, data licensing, AI/ML issues, open-source, open data, software and digital technology issues.  The ideal candidate will demonstrate a growing business acumen and capabilities for negotiating technology related agreements, balancing legal risk with speed-to-market, as well as showing the ability to grow into influence over product strategy through technology and IP  fluency and a developing understanding of IP, software and data issues.

What you will do:

As IP Tech & Product Counsel with Precisely, you will support our Legal team and work closely with our Supplier, Partner and client-facing teams as well as working with our Legal counterparts, Products, Marketing, AI Council, and other departments on AI, product counseling, data, and Intellectual Property matters, key responsibilities including:

IP Tech

• Support and work with senior legal counsel in drafting, negotiation, and review of a variety of agreements and IP and technology clauses and legal issues in supplier, partner, vendor, and customer technology and data related agreements, including various supplier/partner terms (reseller, comarketing, co-selling, OEM, and more), AI/ML, AI/ML output, data use, data licensing, software on-prem and SaaS platforms, IP development, IP ownership/licensing, and other commercialization of IP and license grants, based on an understanding of the products, data, business and customer objectives, required flow down obligations, and legal positions.
• Support the drafting, negotiation, and review of various technology-related agreements from AI/ML addendums, open source software licenses, open data licenses, EULAs, online terms (click-throughs, shrink-wraps, and other no-touch terms), SaaS and other cloud-based terms, EU Data terms, evaluation and beta trials, and other technology-regulation related terms.
• Assist on a variety of intellectual property matters, including patents and trade-secrets issues, including prosecution work with external and regional counsel, IP claims, licensing issues, as well as IP portfolio management and other IP work.
• Assist with AI compliance, including license reviews, risk assessments, reviewing and drafting documentation, disclaimers, disclosures, and policies, and providing guidance and training on AI/ML, data, model ownership, IP and output rights, training, and content ingestion.

Product Counseling & Emerging Technology

• Support the legal review of the product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch.
• Help conduct risk assessments and regulatory compliance reviews for new products, features, APIs, and integrations involving AI, IP and data.
• Partner with Product Management, Marketing and Documentation teams on product UIs, disclaimers, EULAs/TOUs, branding, content, announcements, webpages, articles, customer interactions, product documentation and other product content.
• Collaborate with Research & Development and Product teams to identify copyright and patent notifications, patentable inventions, manage trade secrets, and support patent filings with outside counsel.

Governance, Policy & Enablement

• Help monitor regulatory developments in IP, AI, and data law; update stakeholders on emerging risks and opportunities.
• Help support internal/external audits, due diligence, compliance certifications, insurance inquiries, IP complaints and disputes, and other reviews related to IP, AI, and data governance.

What we are looking for:

• Law Degree from an accredited institution (or relevant local equivalent); and qualified and admitted to practice law in local jurisdiction. 
• 5-7 years of post-qualification experience in IP and technology law, with significant exposure to data licensing and product counseling (at least 4 years in-house experience at tech/SaaS/data enterprise preferred; top law firm experience a plus).        
  Professional fluency in English for advanced legal reading, writing, and communication. 
• Hybrid [or full-remote option] supporting global needs, specifically supporting US Eastern and EMEA time zones regularly.  While the role is based on local working hours, the selected candidate is expected (consistent with the demands of an international legal practice) to participate in meetings, reviews, or time-sensitive legal matters occurring during the US Eastern and EMEA time zones. The role is task-based rather than hours-based; occasional late meetings may be required depending on business needs.     
• Ability to work collaboratively and remotely with teams from across the globe, as needed, but also self-motivated and intellectually curious with a willingness to jump into new challenges and projects. 
• Familiarity with globally recognized IP concepts (trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, as well as ownership, licensing, and confidentiality), including in software and data-driven technologies, and their application in IP prosecution and contractual contexts. 

AI Skills/Knowledge:

• Enthusiasm and experience in using AI‑powered tools to enhance day‑to‑day workflow efficiency, and other efficiency tools such as approval matrices, thresholds, playbooks and self-service workflows. 
• Experience using AI for contract drafting, review, assistance, document summarization and legal research.
• Growing understanding of AI risk, data, and privacy implications in enterprise tools.
• Familiarity with AI use policies.

Preferred Skills (a plus but not required):

• Familiarity with cloud computing, APIs, MCPs, data analytics platforms, and AI/ML product development. 
• Strong problem-solving capability, and the ability to handle ambiguity, particularly as it relates to the evolving landscape of technology and potential regulatory issues.  
• Ability to manage numerous matters on tight timelines and the ability to adapt to shifting priorities with flexibility and a pragmatic approach.  
• Ability to help support alignment of IP, AI, and data strategies with business objectives. 
• Developing understanding of software architecture, AI and data models, and emerging technologies.
• Pragmatic, balancing innovation with regulatory and contractual compliance.
• Builds trust with Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
• Ability to simplify complex legal technical concepts for non-legal and/or non-tech stakeholders through a pragmatic business-oriented lens.

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