Director, Global IP Risk Management Counsel

Applied Materials has an exciting opportunity for an experienced attorney to join our world class Global Litigation & Compliance team. This role will report to our IP risk management lead within Global Litigation and be a key member of a high impact team that investigates and solves complex intellectual property problems, driving integrated value protection strategy to collaborative solutions. This team member will collaborate closely with global information services, engineers, and cross-functional legal and security teams in order to advise on and navigate intellectual property and litigation risk. This team member will be expected to translate emerging risk trends and investigation outcomes into actionable insights for continuous improvements in how Applied protects its most valuable information and navigates litigation risk.

This position will also have a hands-on-role in cross-functional strategic risk management programs with a heavy focus on intellectual property risk management, including regional risk assessments, internal intellectual property investigations, trade secret protection, insider threats, employee mobility, and competitive intelligence. Responsibilities will include advising on and developing risk management strategy and operations, process improvements, policy compliance, supply chain audits, third-party diligence, intellectual property risk mitigation in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, and training and awareness.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Investigate complex intellectual property issues, with a primary focus on how information is shared and value protection, in order to identify and implement creative business enabling solutions, improvements, and mitigations, across people, process, and technology, that continuously drive to better protection of Applied’s valuable intellectual property.
• Be a key legal advisor for the daily management and execution of intellectual property risk management programs, including supplier IP compliance and insider risk.
• Counsel on intellectual property strategy, diligence, and data separation in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Create playbooks with complex intellectual property and litigation risk mitigation strategy to support commercial teams negotiating contracts and non-disclosure agreements.
• Be a go-to resource for intellectual property protection policies, procedures, and awareness, including developing a deep expertise in the technology platforms that Applied uses to share information internally and with partners, in order to best protect the value of the information being shared, including overseeing audits as necessary.
• Own global intellectual property sourcing strategy and regional risk assessments that inform where and how valuable intellectual property is best protected.
• Advise on the impact to intellectual property during cybersecurity or other intellectual property exfiltration incidents.

Minimum Qualifications