Intellectual Property Attorney, Lead

The Opportunity:

Are you passionate about combining your intellectual property expertise with big-picture business thinking to empower innovation, drive critical missions, and deliver enduring growth and value? At Booz Allen, you’ll join a team of experienced professionals motivated to excel and realize values-driven change for our clients, colleagues, and communities. We bring bold thinking to complex challenges across analytics and artificial intelligence, cyber, digital solutions, and engineering, and with industries ranging from defense to health, energy to international development.

As a Lead on the Legal Department’s Intellectual Property Team, this legal counsel position will partner with the business to facilitate the development and sale of products and solutions to Federal Government and Commercial Customers. Working in close collaboration with others in the Intellectual Property Team and other Legal Department team members, this role will counsel businesses on intellectual property matters, leverage best practices to mitigate risk, ensure a consistent approach to development and sales across supported market groups, and operationalize a broad range of risk mitigation techniques to assist broader business goals. This role will assist in providing subject matter expertise on intellectual property protection, on product compliance regulatory regimes in the government and commercial sectors, and coordinate with other subject matter experts in the Legal Department and across the company to position the business for compliance with anticipated ethical and regulatory regimes. The Counsel will leverage expertise in federal government contracts counseling, data rights, contract negotiations, and software or solutions sales to anticipate risk and protect the company's strategic investments. Work with us as we empower the future. Due to the nature of work performed within this facility, U.S. citizenship is required.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

You Have:

• 3+ years of experience in legal counseling on intellectual property, product and solution sales, or primarily to federal government clients, including drafting and negotiating intellectual property licenses and developing data rights protection best practices

• Experience in working with or managing patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and open-source software

• Experience with advising on and being conversant with emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data security, incident response, and highly technical concepts and associated regulatory and contractual requirements

• Knowledge of commercial intellectual property issues relevant to product development and delivery agreements

• Ability to draft and advise on intellectual property or freedom to operate in commercial contracts

• Ability to translate highly technical concepts into plain language

• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize and manage the workload and simultaneous tasks, and meet deadlines in a changing, fast-paced environment

• J.D. degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with advising professional services companies, including commercial or government industry

• Experience with drafting and negotiating contractual requirements for software development, systems, products, and solutions agreements, including change control processes, other delivery-focused mitigation approaches, or acceptance criteria

• Ability to be highly responsive and organized

• Ability to provide practical and pragmatic advice to legal and business colleagues

• Ability to show superior legal and analytical expertise and business-oriented approach to problem-solving

• Ability to display excellent judgment and initiative in selecting the most effective solutions

• Possession of excellent organizational, interpersonal, client relations, and team skills

• Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills

Compensation

At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Identity Statement

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

Work Model

Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration, whether it occurs in person or virtually. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

• Remote: If this position is listed as remote, there may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.

• Hybrid: If this position is listed as hybrid, you will be expected to work from a Booz Allen facility frequently, in alignment with leadership expectations and the needs of the role. You may also be required to work from or visit a customer facility.

• Onsite: If this position is listed as onsite, work will primarily be performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, where employees will collaborate directly with colleagues and customers as required by the role.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.