Patent Principal Counsel

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced patent counsel to join our group and partner closely with our engineering teams responsible for providing innovative features and delivery models for streaming and gaming services that delight our members around the world. In this role, you will help protect our innovation by providing practical intellectual property counseling on topics such as patents, publications, trade secrets, and open source. You will be developing the patent portfolio strategy by understanding our business, working with our engineers, making filing decisions, and partnering with our law firms to prosecute our patent assets. 

Although the role is a remote position (West Coast preferred), there is an option to report into our Los Gatos office.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of overall patent prosecution experience, with at least 4+ years of in-house experience. 

• Admission to the USPTO Bar and membership in good standing in at least one State Bar. 

• Experience in strategically building patent portfolios, counseling engineers, harvesting innovations, and collaborating with outside counsel to prosecute patents. 

• Curiosity and excitement to figure out how technology works.

• Highly value being part of a diverse and inclusive team.

• Creative problem solving skills.

• Ability to embrace ambiguity and demonstrate flexibility.

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.  

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $180,000 - $690,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

 Netflix is a unique culture and environment.  Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.