Legal Operations Specialist - Intellectual Property Remote

Job Description Summary

The GE Aerospace Intellectual Property (IP) function plays a crucial role in supporting enterprise strategy, ensuring compliance, and managing risks. IP Ops is a subfunction that comprises a team of professionals who deploy legal, organizational, logistical, technical, and financial expertise to further the mission of the function.
We seek a dynamic and experienced professional to join our team of IP Operations Specialists.
The role requires specialized Intellectual Property knowledge and skills. Our IP Operations Specialists handle substantive IP and operational matters, enhance internal and external communications, support strategy deployment, drive continuous improvement and develop and deliver training curricula.

• Supports the development of strategy at the function and sub-function level
• Conducts needs assessments to identify training requirements and develop training solutions, content and materials across the enterprise and within the function
• Drafts, reviews, and edits legal documents, presentations, and reports for clarity and accuracy, including to create impactful presentations
• Collaboratively develops and executes a cohesive and comprehensive communication strategy and annual action plan with function and sub-function leaders

• For projects and workstreams, as assigned, develops or utilizes means for extracting and analyzing relevant datasets to troubleshoot and derive actionable insights, including various metrics and KPIs
• Develops clear and concise reporting tools and visual management to communicate function performance in terms of enterprise value

• Collaborates with internal teams to plan, coordinate, measure and manage execution of legal projects from inception to completion. Will lead small to medium-sized projects substantially independently, or be a major contributor on large projects in collaboration with colleagues

• Develops processes and visual management systems to track, drive execution, and report performance for complex IP workstreams
• Continuous Improvement Projects - Analyze gaps in SOPs to identify needs and opportunities for improvement, including by leading or engaging in problem solving using Lean principles, e.g. the GE Aerospace FLIGHT DECK operating model
• Under supervision of counsel, responsible for ongoing IP legal workstreams, such as regulatory, contract or policy/procedure compliance, and acquisition, enforcement or maintenance of IP rights

• Administers and customizes the Company's IP portfolio docketing processes and datasets within the Company's IP management system (currently, Anaqua®), and executes or tracks completion of portfolio management tasks assigned and overseen by IP attorneys and patent agents
• Trains and provides guidance to cross-functional colleagues, junior team members and external resources

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 3 years of experience in IP)
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in the field of Intellectual Property
• Demonstrated understanding of the nature and relevance of and processes relating to each common type of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets and copyrights.
• Familiarity with best practices for docketing and protection of Intellectual Property rights, including use of patent docketing applications and systems. Experience and familiarity with the Anaqua® corporate IP management system is strongly preferred

• Thorough knowledge of United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) forms, rules, filing processes and portals, and procedures, and at least a basic understanding of foreign patent prosecution procedures
• Proven organizational skills with extraordinary attention to detail
• Effective project management skills (able to contribute to and organize small projects), a ability to understand and evaluate legal processes, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders to achieve project goals
• Strong ability to explore and analyze datasets; independently collects and processes data according to established rubrics to support decision-making
• Ability to work independently and efficiently to interpret instructions, follow standard work, policies and procedures, and apply same to generate consistently compliant substantive work product
• Good interpersonal, verbal, and writing skills - able to communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing
• Self-starter and proactive problem solver
• Team player - collaborative, and readily shares information with colleagues
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and high-volume environment with multiple priorities and resource constraints
• Flexible and willing to work towards meeting deadlines as circumstances require
• Familiar and able to engage with elements of structured continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean, FLIGHT DECK, Six Sigma, and seeks to apply them in daily work
• Ability to execute on standard operating routines and help guide the users of IP processes
• Resourceful, accountable, diligent
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others