AddressWe are a unique Intellectual Property Firm specialised in working with startups and scaleups and are always looking for dynamic team players to join our team. Our company is headquartered in Cambridge (UK), with offices in New Delhi (IN), Wrocław (PL), Lund (Sweden) and New York (USA).
Candidates must be eligible to work in the selected location without the need to apply for a work permit.
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Innovation Consultant
Locations: Cambridge/London, UK
Innovation minded team player that enjoys working with cutting edge technology and brands. You will work closely with our clients in running innovation projects, workshops and spotting new ideas and technology in R&D and product development projects. Working with the inventors, engineers and scientists, you will support them in finding the best ways of protecting the ideas, concepts and Intellectual Property (IP) generated.
Together with your colleagues at Basck, you will be part of a team building high-quality IP portfolios for our clients giving them competitive advantage and securing future revenues. You will also be working hand in hand with the client teams from C-level executives to data scientists and engineers to bring idea capture and IP awareness to their day to day activities to drive an innovative culture. You will be working with patent and trade mark attorneys, as well as analysts, engineers and lawyers who will execute strategies set and project deliveries.
We are looking for driven and well organised people with good social and project management skills who can build strong relationships and have experience in Innovation and Intellectual Property in a wider business context. Previous experience working in a startup and R&D environment is a big plus.
Typical tasks:
- Innovation and ideation projects
- Client management and building relationships
- Handling new enquiries and managing a portfolio of clients.
- Managing budgets, client communications and resources.
- Attending events and being proactive in business development activities.
- Providing training to both clients and other team members on IP awareness.
- Completing Invention Disclosure Forms and summaries with clients.
- Developing Intellectual Property (IP) strategies and reviewing client portfolios to improve their protection.
- Providing advice on a wide range of IP and business issues, both non-contentious (such as registrability of rights) and contentious (such as litigation risks).
- Instructing and managing internal teams according to set IP strategy.
- Being responsible for quality, profit and project planning and delivery.
- Being responsible for monitoring the execution of IP strategy.
What we are looking for:
- 3-5+ years of experience in working in innovation, R&D, IP and possibly already an inventor.
- Self-starter and a team player
- Domain knowledge engineering, life science or software.
- Great client management and project organisation skills.
- Keen to build their own network and perform business development activities.
- Must be proactive and business savvy.
- Passionate about innovation, business, startups.
- Able to translate legalese into a plain business language.
What we promise
INSPIRING ENVIRONMENT
Our clients come from a variety of industries, and you are responsible for their management from A to Z. Your role is not limited to patent prosecution but also active client management and guiding our clients in their IP Strategy.
IN-HOUSE SUPPORT FOR STARTUPS
We niche in working with startups/scaleups and are passionate about our clients. We are our Client’s external IP team which feels like an internal one. With our fixed-fee approach you won’t need to worry about clocking billable hours and will easily become a part of our clients’ day to day activities, staying on top of their latest events.
PURPOSE-DRIVEN BUSINESS
Our “100 Heroes to Carbon Zero” programme is aimed at startups who address sustainability issues and wish to draft their first patent. We do it for free and take great pleasure in supporting those that support our planet.
SUPPORTING DISRUPTING BUSINESSES
Our company provides all the benefits of a boutique firm but offers the same international perspectives as a big corporate. Our clients are both early stage startups and single inventors as well as unicorns. We support not only by helping with their IP.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
No matter your seniority, we let you implement your own ideas and be independent in managing your entrusted field. Your voice is heard. We are agile enough to make changes quickly, test and review, without complicated procedures.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE
We have no glass ceilings, we let people grow and believe in giving a lot of responsibilities early on to let them spread their wings as quickly as they can. No matter how old you are, no matter how many or how few years of experience you have. We evaluate your work and commitment in our team, here and now. We believe that everyone is the blacksmith of their fate and it depends only on you how quickly your position will develop. We do not believe in automatic promotions, we believe in entrusting more responsibility, taking on new challenges and benefiting from the rewards of success.
FANTASTIC TEAM YOU CAN RELY ON
We enjoy working together and know that we can rely on each other. Quoting one of our team the other day: “If you think it is impossible, just let me remind you that we are BASCKers! Nothing is impossible for us”. We also like keeping fit (SUP-boarding outings and running in Chariots of Fire) and travelling (team offsites).
If this does not sound compelling enough, we can mention a few more standard perks (hybrid work, international travel, NEST company pension scheme, Vitality health insurance, pizza parties), but if the previous points were not enough, we are probably not the right fit!
