# IP Paralegal

**Company**: Perplexity AI
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130K - $210K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124333951

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## Description

Perplexity AI is looking for a highly organized and resourceful IP Paralegal to serve as the operational backbone of a fast-growing, full-stack intellectual property program.

The successful candidate will partner closely with outside counsel, engineering stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to run the workflows behind a growing patent and trademark portfolio, maintain copyright and trade secret practices, and support open source compliance review.

Key Responsibilities:

- Manage end-to-end workflows across the patent and trademark portfolios, including docketing, deadline tracking, filing coordination, portfolio maintenance, and status reporting to internal stakeholders.

- Support trade secret protection practices and open source compliance review, including tracking disclosure and license obligations and flagging issues for attorney review.

- Administer copyright matters, including registration filings, recordation, and portfolio record keeping.

- Own intake and triage for new invention disclosures, trademark clearance requests, and other IP matters.

- Manage outside counsel relationships and billing, including matter budgets, accrual tracking, invoice review against outside counsel guidelines, rate negotiation support, and matter-management hygiene in billing systems.

- Run the patent rewards program.

- Prepare and file U.S. trademark applications and coordinate foreign filings through local counsel.

- Run preliminary clearance searches for new products and features.

- Coordinate trademark office action responses, review watch notices, and recommend enforcement actions.

- Manage the domain name portfolio and the online brand protection and takedown programs.

- Conduct IP portfolio analysis, including filing trend tracking, competitive landscape monitoring, and gap identification, to support portfolio strategy and prosecution priorities.

- Provide support on IP-adjacent matters as needed, including commercial contract IP terms and litigation support.

- Maintain and improve internal file management systems, trackers, and dashboards, keeping matter data, deadlines, and portfolio status current and audit-ready.

- Build and improve the systems behind the work, including intake workflows, filing playbooks, matter templates, and escalation paths.

- Use and help evolve agentic AI tools to support IP workflows.

Qualifications:

- 10+ years of experience as an IP paralegal, with a mix of in-house and law firm experience.

- Demonstrated AI tool fluency and genuine curiosity about applying agentic AI systems to IP program operations.

- Hands-on experience supporting a mix of patent and trademark prosecution workflows.

- Working knowledge of copyright administration and trade secret protection practices.

- Experience managing outside counsel relationships.

- Experience managing a high volume of concurrent matters and deadlines with strong organizational skills and exacting attention to detail.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Demonstrated discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential and privileged material.

Nice to have:

- Paralegal certificate, associate's degree in paralegal studies, or bachelor's degree.

- Direct experience with open source license compliance review.

- Experience running or supporting an inventor recognition or patent rewards/incentive program.

- Experience supporting IP diligence for M&A, financing, or commercial transactions.

- Litigation support experience.

- Experience with IP portfolio analytics.

- Direct experience with docketing platforms, IP management software, and legal billing or matter management systems.

- Experience at a high-growth technology startup.

- Interest in artificial intelligence laws and regulations.

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## Skills

### Required
- IP paralegal
- patent prosecution
- trademark prosecution
- copyright administration
- trade secret protection
- AI tool fluency

### Nice to have
- paralegal certificate
- open source license compliance review
- inventor recognition program
- IP diligence
- litigation support
- IP portfolio analytics

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