Description:
Position Type:Full time
Type Of Hire:
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)
Education Desired:
Bachelor of Law
Bachelor of Law
Travel Percentage:
0%
Job Description:
The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we're faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact–in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?
About the role:
In this Corporate Counsel role, you will manage legal matters to protect FIS' intellectual property rights. You will work closely with the company's management, development, and product teams to protect our innovations by providing strategic intellectual property counseling on topics including patents, trade secrets, open-source software, software licensing, and related litigation. Your primary focus will be developing our innovation protection strategy with an emphasis on identifying strategic innovations that align with our business objectives for patent filing and partnering with our law firms to draft, file and prosecute patent assets protecting those innovations. You will also provide counsel on intellectual property aspects of software product development including use of open-source software and draft, review, and negotiate source code licenses.
About the Team:
The FIS Legal team is comprised of approximately 200 attorneys and paraprofessionals worldwide who enjoy being an advisor to and partner with our businesses to help the company achieve its goals. We work collaboratively with each other and with our business colleagues to solve problems in an effective and pragmatic manner. We view our role as one of supporting our business leaders in a variety of legal matters, and we strive to assist our businesses in meeting their objectives with sound, reasonable and well-considered legal counsel.
What you will be doing:
What you bring:
What we offer you:
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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Job Description:
The world of finance moves fast. At FIS, we're faster. Our teams are empowered to learn, grow, and make an impact–in their careers and communities. We deliver innovation that advances the way the world pays, banks and invests. If you want to grow personally and professionally, we'd like to know: Are you FIS?
About the role:
In this Corporate Counsel role, you will manage legal matters to protect FIS' intellectual property rights. You will work closely with the company's management, development, and product teams to protect our innovations by providing strategic intellectual property counseling on topics including patents, trade secrets, open-source software, software licensing, and related litigation. Your primary focus will be developing our innovation protection strategy with an emphasis on identifying strategic innovations that align with our business objectives for patent filing and partnering with our law firms to draft, file and prosecute patent assets protecting those innovations. You will also provide counsel on intellectual property aspects of software product development including use of open-source software and draft, review, and negotiate source code licenses.
About the Team:
The FIS Legal team is comprised of approximately 200 attorneys and paraprofessionals worldwide who enjoy being an advisor to and partner with our businesses to help the company achieve its goals. We work collaboratively with each other and with our business colleagues to solve problems in an effective and pragmatic manner. We view our role as one of supporting our business leaders in a variety of legal matters, and we strive to assist our businesses in meeting their objectives with sound, reasonable and well-considered legal counsel.
What you will be doing:
- Providing legal advice and guidance to the enterprise and its business units on a wide range of intellectual property law matters, such as patents, trade secrets, open-source software, and software licensing and related litigation.
- Performing legal research and analysis on intellectual property law issues.
- Focus on and assist with strategically developing a robust and innovative patent portfolio including identifying innovations for patent protection and working with outside counsel to file and prosecution applications covering those innovations.
What you bring:
- A law degree, such as a Juris Doctor or other comparable degree, admission to practice law in the appropriate jurisdiction, and admission to the United States Patent and Trademark Bar.
- 2-6 years of legal experience with a primary focus on patent prosecution in a corporate in-house or law firm environment.
- Excellent knowledge of US and international intellectual property laws with a focus on patent laws as well as extensive experience with patent prosecution and portfolio management.
- Strong communication, research, writing, and analytical skills
- The ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to review and evaluate multi-faceted issues and counsel business colleagues on complex legal questions relating to various intellectual property issues.
- Experience advising clients in a complex, diversified, matrixed, global organization.
- Experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced business environment and driving complex projects to completion.
What we offer you:
At FIS, we hire the best. In return, you receive exceptional benefits including:
- Opportunities to innovate in Fintech
- Tools for personal and professional growth
- Inclusive and diverse work environment
- Resources to invest in your community
- Competitive salary and benefits
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.
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