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Sr. Legal Analyst -- Intellectual Property & Standardization

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Are you looking for a work environment which encourages teamwork and where you are respected, supported, challenged, and can grow and advance your career? If your answer is “yes,” you should join T-Mobile’s All-Star Legal Team!

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our dynamic legal team as Technical Advisor to Intellectual Property and Standardization. The successful candidate will work directly with T-Mobile’s Intellectual Property, will support T-Mobile’s Standards Team, and will play a pivotal role in discovering and protecting T-Mobile Intellectual Property.

What you’ll do in your role.

  • General Intellectual Property Team Support: Be part of a team that provides day-to-day advice, builds, protects, and maintains T-Mobile’s intellectual property assets.
  • Technical Support for the Intellectual Property Team: Provide technical reviews, analysis and support to the Intellectual Property Team with regards to potential new innovations.
  • Collaboration with T-Mobile Standards Team: Engage with engineers and staff of the T-Mobile’s Standards Team to stay abreast of the latest developments in wireless communication standards and activities of the Standards Team to identify potential patenting opportunities that align with existing and future developments in these standards.
  • Tracking and Support of Collaboration: Work with the T-Mobile Intellectual Property and the T-Mobile Standards Team to coordinate, manage process, and track collaboration, submissions, filings, and standards related disclosures.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with R&D, engineering, and product teams within the T-Mobile at-large to identify potential standards-relevant inventions and work with team members to pursue the protection and development of such inventions with the assistance of T-Mobile’s Standards Team.
  • Standardization Technical Analysis and Advice: Provide technical analysis and guidance on standard-related matters, including the applicability of patents to existing standards or in relation to new standards developments.
  • Technical Support in Legal Analysis: Support the in-house and outside counsel teams in technical analysis or in preparation, creation, and validation of patent claims to applicable standards or generally.

The experience you’ll bring.

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in a Technical or Engineering field.
  • Experience: Minimum of 7 years of experience in telecommunications, wireless technologies, or similar, including experience with wireless communication standards.
  • Licenses: Registration to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a Patent Agent is a plus but not required.
  • Knowledge: In-depth understanding of wireless and telecommunications technology, working knowledge of wireless communication standards, including but not limited to standards promulgated by 3GPP, GSMA, IEEE (Wi-Fi), and ETSI.
  • Skills: Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):No

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No

Base Pay Range: $85,400 - $154,000

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, click here.

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