Senior Legal Counsel-Intellectual Property

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The Senior Legal Counsel, Intellectual Property, is a key role on HSBC’s Global Intellectual Property team, based in our New York City office. In this role, you will help HSBC navigate all aspects of intellectual property law and will closely advise our stakeholders on intellectual property strategy. You will be responsible for advising on all types of intellectual property rights—including patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets—in every context, be it portfolio management, enforcement and contentious matters or transactions.

Here’s what you can expect:
As our Senior Legal Counsel, Intellectual Property, you will play a crucial role in guiding our stakeholders on all intellectual property matters. This includes providing strategic advice to support our businesses and supporting functions as they develop new concepts, products, and services. You will collaborate closely with developers and innovators, business lawyers and other legal colleagues to navigate third-party IP risks. Your responsibilities will also involve supporting the bank’s patent and trademark portfolios, offering specialized IP advice during strategic commercial and M&A transactions, and taking proactive measures in IP enforcement against infringers as well as planning the bank’s defensive approach, covering patents, trademarks, and copyright. Your role will also entail managing our relationships with external legal counsel to ensure efficient support of our team.

For this role, HSBC targets a fixed pay range between $191,700 and $287,600.

The final fixed pay offer will depend on the candidate and a number of variables, including but not limited to, role responsibilities, skill set, depth of experience and education, licensing/certification requirements, internal relativity, and specific work location.

At HSBC, our overall goal is to provide a competitive Total Reward Package, with an appropriate mix of fixed pay, and variable pay, as part of an employee’s overall total compensation and benefits. Variable pay generally takes the form of discretionary, annual awards (sometimes referred to as a “bonus”). Additionally, HSBC offers a wide range of competitive and flexible benefits designed to help you improve your health and well-being, finances, and lifestyle.

In compliance with applicable laws, HSBC is committed to employing only those who are authorized to work in the US. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. as HSBC will not engage in immigration sponsorship for this position.

To be successful in this role, you will be a member in good standing with the state Bar and you will have experience with a wide range of intellectual property law matters, including especially patent and trademark law. Ideally, your experience will include some aspect of portfolio work, transactional and contentious matters. You should be adept at finding a common language with technical experts and, conversely, at explaining technical concepts to people who do not share that background.

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including a robust Wellness Hub, all in a welcoming, diverse and inclusive work environment.  You will be empowered to drive HSBC’s engagement with the communities we serve through an industry-leading volunteerism policy, a generous matching gift program, and a comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives. You’ll want to join our Employee Resource Groups as they play a central part in life at HSBC, including the development of our employees and networking inside and outside of HSBC.  We value difference. We succeed together. We take responsibility. We get it done. And we want you to help us build the bank of the future!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, race, national origin, ethnicity, disability or medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran service, religion, creed, sex, gender, pregnancy, childbirth, caregiver status, marital status, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other trait protected by applicable law.