Intellectual Property and Product Legal Specialist

About the role:

Samsara’s Legal team strives to create value and ensure that Samsara meets its mission by providing accessible and business-oriented legal guidance. We do so through creative problem-solving, excellence, and transparency in execution while exhibiting good judgment in providing ethical and empathetic partnerships across the business.

Samsara is seeking a resourceful and team-oriented project manager to help build and support a growing Product Legal function at a fast-paced technology company. In this role, you will manage and drive projects across all areas that the Product Legal team supports, including but not limited to intellectual property, regulatory compliance, privacy, and general product counseling. You will work closely with the Product Legal team and other legal functions and business teams to develop, implement, and maintain appropriate policies and procedures for the company. You will partner with the Product Legal team to oversee outside counsel and manage budgets.

You are someone who loves to investigate the technical details of a complex project or product, identify and assess risks, and propose realistic solutions that take into account competing business interests. You will help create and implement processes to ensure alignment with the Company’s values and compliance with evolving laws and regulations. You possess a strong sense of ethics and a refined risk tolerance. Your diligence, judgment, and discretion make you a trusted counterpart in sensitive environments.

Our most successful team members excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and can drive projects of varying complexity in collaboration with multiple teams. They embrace new challenges and the unexpected and can clearly distill their analysis into actionable and scalable guidance, always in consideration of the diverse needs of their business stakeholders. They are willing to jump in to assist their colleagues on any project, large or small, regardless of whether it falls within their scope of expertise.

This is a remote position open to candidates residing in the US except Alaska, Austin Metro, Boulder Metro, California, Chicago Metro, Connecticut, Dallas Metro, Denver Metro, Houston Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Seattle Metro.

You should apply if:

• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.

In this role, you will: 

• Manage and maintain accurate records and documentation of Samsara's intellectual property portfolio, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights
• Develop, manage, and improve upon workflows related to Samsara’s intellectual property portfolio, including related to filings, dockets, deadlines, and budgets
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to identify and protect new products and features as relevant to Samsara’s intellectual property portfolio, and support training such teams as relevant to protecting and developing Samsara’s intellectual property
• Support vendor and software tool operations related to Samsara’s intellectual property portfolio, including spend tracking, coordinating workflows, and other vendor and outside counsel management as needed
• Assist with any other legal duties and projects as assigned by the legal team, including as needed to support the broader Product legal team
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices

Minimum requirements for the role:

• 2+ years experience at a law firm or in-house as a paralegal or administrative specialist in the area of intellectual property law, especially patents
• Exceptional communication and organizational skills and strong attention to detail
• Experience independently driving complex projects from start to finish in a broad range of subject matters

An ideal candidate also has:

• Experience with an intellectual property program at a SaaS technology company
• Experience with Google Suite, IPFolio, Atlassian products, and Microsoft Office
• Paralegal certification or equivalent experience