Corporate Counsel - Legal Product, IP, and Marketing

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale , unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

We are looking for an innovative and curious Corporate Counsel to help shape how Elastic's technologies are built, protected, and brought to market. This role can be located in the United States or Canada, reporting to the Vice President of Legal Innovation (Product, IP, Marketing) with dotted line supervision by the Director of Legal Innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Patent Prosecution & Invention Harvesting: Support Elastic's day-to-day patent prosecution and innovation motions. Develop a deep working knowledge of Elastic's product technology and roadmap. Assist in operating the invention harvesting and patent intake program by working with other Elasticians to identify innovative ideas, evaluate inventions for patentability, and prepare or review patent disclosures.
• IP Portfolio Management: Working closely with the Director of Legal for Product and IP, help manage Elastic's global patent, copyright, and trademark portfolios, including trademark monitoring and clearance, copyright registrations, and tracking all filing, prosecution, and renewal deadlines across jurisdictions.
• Brand Protection & Enforcement: Support IP enforcement strategies by assisting with domain name disputes, social media takedowns, and coordination with vendors and outside counsel on pre-litigation disputes and assertions.
• Product Regulatory Governance & Product Launch Readiness: Coordinate with cross-functional team members, including Legal Privacy and Commercial, Information Security, and IT to support our Product build and release functions.
• Open-Source & Product Counseling: Assist in managing day-to-day open-source software licensing and compliance programs, ensuring inbound third-party dependencies align with our outbound strategy.
• Commercial Contracts & Playbooks: Review, research, and prepare first drafts of commercial contract clauses related to AI, IP, Product, dependencies, and open-source software,including data rights and warranties.
• Legal Research & Diligence: Support in and conduct factual and legal research, organize complex documentation for technology partnerships, M&A diligence, and legal disputes in a distributed environment.
• Trade Compliance Support: Develop a foundational understanding of Elastic's product and its technical intricacies to provide backup support to our core trade compliance team.

Requirements:

• 2–5+ years of experience in patent prosecution and/or litigation and intellectual property or product law, preferably with exposure to the software industry.
• A bachelor's or advanced degree in a science or engineering field.
• Admission to the US or Canadian Patent Bar (registration number required).
• A JD from a US law school or LLB from a Canadian law school preferred, but patent agents are eligible.
• Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, or managing patent applications, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear patent claims and legal analysis.
• A demonstrated interest in Generative Artificial Intelligence and the legal frameworks governing code and data.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to take complex legal and technical concepts and simplify the issues and desired outcomes.

Nice to Have:

• Process Perspective: A desire to build and strengthen workflows and "productization" processes that help a legal team scale.
• Global Perspective: Comfortable working across time zones and cultures in a distributed culture with a flexible approach to problem-solving.

Compensation:

• The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is $106,800-$168,900 USD.
• In select locations, an alternate range may apply: $128,200-$202,700 USD.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary.
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations.
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.
• Increase your impact.
• We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service.
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love.
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave.