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With customers at its core, Stack AV is focused on revolutionizing the way businesses transport goods, designing solutions to alleviate long-standing issues that have plagued the trucking industry including driver shortages, lagging efficiency in uptime per vehicle, overarching safety concerns, high operating costs, and elevated emission levels. By building safe and efficient autonomous trucking solutions, Stack AV is creating better and smarter supply chains for its partners, improving business outcomes for its customers, delivering goods to end-users faster, and ultimately moving the trucking industry forward.
What We're Looking for:
We are looking for people who are passionate about delivering self-driving (L4) products that make the way we move safer, faster, and more efficient. We seek mission-driven, highly skilled people with deep experience in fast-paced, rapidly growing, tech development environments.
Stack is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated IP and Corporate Paralegal to join the Stack Legal Department. We are headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, and a candidate located there is preferred but not required; we are a flexible/remote team. The successful candidate will be a key member of a team-oriented group of Legal professionals and will be primarily responsible for managing Stack's IP portfolio and lead all Corporate Paralegal matters. The team is a tight-knit collaborative group that also highly encourages independence and autonomy. We are looking to add a smart and ambitious team member to join us and take strong ownership of their work and make a strong impact within the company.
What Success Looks Like:
We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.
Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV's ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate's application.
With customers at its core, Stack AV is focused on revolutionizing the way businesses transport goods, designing solutions to alleviate long-standing issues that have plagued the trucking industry including driver shortages, lagging efficiency in uptime per vehicle, overarching safety concerns, high operating costs, and elevated emission levels. By building safe and efficient autonomous trucking solutions, Stack AV is creating better and smarter supply chains for its partners, improving business outcomes for its customers, delivering goods to end-users faster, and ultimately moving the trucking industry forward.
What We're Looking for:
We are looking for people who are passionate about delivering self-driving (L4) products that make the way we move safer, faster, and more efficient. We seek mission-driven, highly skilled people with deep experience in fast-paced, rapidly growing, tech development environments.
Stack is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated IP and Corporate Paralegal to join the Stack Legal Department. We are headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, and a candidate located there is preferred but not required; we are a flexible/remote team. The successful candidate will be a key member of a team-oriented group of Legal professionals and will be primarily responsible for managing Stack's IP portfolio and lead all Corporate Paralegal matters. The team is a tight-knit collaborative group that also highly encourages independence and autonomy. We are looking to add a smart and ambitious team member to join us and take strong ownership of their work and make a strong impact within the company.
What Success Looks Like:
- Experience managing IP portfolios.
- Patent Identification Process.
- Collaborate with engineers to facilitate the patent identification process.
- Prepare, review and analyze invention disclosure forms to ensure completeness and accuracy.
- Patent Preparation Process:
- Work closely with outside counsel to manage patent preparation activities.
- Assist in the preparation of new patent applications.
- Assist in developing strategies for responding to patent office actions.
- Assess patent continuation and divisional strategies to maximize protection.
- Patent Diligence:
- Assist outside counsel with Freedom to Operate (FTO) analyses to assess the risk of patent infringement when launching new products or services.
- Review third party patents for potential licensing opportunities.
- Review competitor products for possible infringement of Assist in infringement analyses, including assessing infringement positions for existing products and potential design-arounds.
- Assist on trademark and copyright enforcement and registration efforts.
- Assist with drafting corporate governance documents, including board minutes, resolutions, corporate registers and powers of attorney, etc.
- Manage state qualifications and filings to maintain compliance in all jurisdictions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including finance, compliance, people operations, business operations, tax, and various senior leaders.
- Manage and organize the Legal department's document repository and intranet website.
- Provide day-to-day support, including any administerial tasks, to our legal team.
- At least 3+ years of previous Corporate Paralegal experience (ideally both law firm and in-house experience, but not required).
- Experience working with inventors and completing invention disclosure forms.
- Computer science or engineering background a plus, but not required.
- Admitted to practice in front of the U.S. Patent Office a plus, but not required.
- Experienced Notary Public or willingness to become a Notary Public, a plus.
- Motivated, persistent, resourceful, curious, and eager to learn.
- Project management skills and a keen attention to detail, organization, and accuracy.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a team-player attitude.
We are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We believe that diverse teams produce the best ideas and outcomes. We are committed to building a culture of inclusion, entrepreneurship, and innovation across gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and identity.
Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV's ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate's residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate's application.
