Associate 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.
• IP Portfolio Management: Help manage Elastic's global patent, copyright, and trademark portfolios.
• Brand Protection & Enforcement: Support IP enforcement strategies by assisting with domain name disputes and social media takedowns.
• Product Regulatory Governance & Product Launch Readiness: Coordinate with cross-functional team members to support product build and release functions.
• Open-Source & Product Counseling: Assist in managing day-to-day open-source software licensing and compliance programs.
• Commercial Contracts & Playbooks: Review, research, and prepare first drafts of commercial contract clauses related to AI, IP, Product, dependencies, and open-source software.
• Legal Research & Diligence: Support in conducting factual and legal research, organizing complex documentation for technology partnerships, M&A diligence, and legal disputes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Technical Curiosity: A demonstrated interest in Generative Artificial Intelligence and the legal frameworks governing code and data.
• Problem-Solving: A self-starting, proactive approach with the poise to prioritize multiple projects and recalibrate advice as priorities shift.
• Communication: 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 this role is: $98,200-$148,200 CAD
• Elastic's stock program
• Company-matched Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings