Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property

Position Overview

The Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property serves as a strategic legal advisor responsible for overseeing and safeguarding the organization’s intellectual property portfolio for its home fitness products. This role provides enterprise-wide guidance on IP strategy, risk management, and compliance, while partnering closely with business leadership to support innovation, commercialization, and long-term value creation. This is a supervisory position. 

Intellectual Property Strategy and Governance:

• Develop, implement, and maintain the global intellectual property strategy for the organization’s home fitness products in alignment with business objectives

• Oversee the acquisition, protection, maintenance, and enforcement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets

• Establish and uphold IP policies and best practices

Legal Advisory and Risk Management:

• Advise senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on IP risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies

• Provide legal guidance on product development, research initiatives, branding, marketing, and commercialization activities

• Conduct freedom-to-operate analyses and manage IP-related due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic transactions

Responsibilities:

Contracts and Transactions:

• Draft, review, and negotiate IP-related agreements, including licenses, collaboration agreements, joint development agreements, and technology transfers

• Support commercial transactions by ensuring appropriate ownership, usage rights, and protections

Litigation and Enforcement:

• Manage intellectual property disputes, claims, and litigation, including oversight of outside counsel

• Lead enforcement actions and defense strategies related to infringement, misappropriation, or unfair competition

Cross-Functional Partnership:

• Partner with R&D, product, engineering, marketing, and business development teams to embed IP considerations into decision-making

• Educate internal stakeholders on IP fundamentals, compliance requirements, and risk awareness

Operational Excellence:

• Manage external counsel and service providers, including patent prosecution firms and IP vendors

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments impacting intellectual property and advise on implications

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and cost control related to IP activities

Management:  

• Manages staff such as paralegals. 

• Engages in the typical responsibilities of a manager, requiring planning, evaluating, organizing, integrating, and controlling.

Supervisory:  

• Responsible for staffing, terminations, disciplinary actions, training, and developing subordinates

• Responsible for completing adequate performance documentation on time.

• Responsible for ensuring the accuracy of timecards and approving them in a timely manner.

Marginal Job Functions:

• Other legal projects as needed.

Education and Credentials:

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school

• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

• USPTO registered patent attorney

Experience:

• Typically, 8 to 12 years of relevant legal experience, with significant focus on patents

• Experience in a law firm and in-house legal department preferred

• Demonstrated experience managing IP portfolios

Other Requirements:

Leadership Competencies

• High degree of integrity, discretion, and professionalism

• Strategic mindset with strong business acumen

• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence across functions

• Sound judgment under pressure and comfort navigating ambiguity

• Ability to travel on occasion

Benefits:

We offer an excellent compensation package and team-oriented work environment with growth opportunities. Some of our outstanding benefits include:

• Health & Dental Insurance

• Company paid Life Insurance

• 401(k)

• Paid Time Off benefits

• Product discounts

• Wellness programs

EOE/M/W/Vet/Disability

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