Senior Intellectual Property Counsel

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Job description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health Oncology Platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early-stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Guardant Health, Inc. is seeking an experienced and motivated Intellectual Property Counsel to join its IP Team. As a member of the IP Team, you will be responsible for providing guidance on a wide range of IP and general legal matters related to the cancer diagnostics field. You will combine your legal and technical knowledge to implement and execute the company's IP strategy for Guardant's growing patent portfolio. The technology you will be exposed to is critical to Guardant's mission of improving the lives of cancer patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

* Continue to build and manage a global patent portfolio, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications, identifying strategic areas for patenting, harvesting patentable inventions, and evaluating the patentability of invention submissions;
* Collaborate with other members of the IP Team to develop and advise on global patent and IP strategy;
* Oversee and coordinate with outside counsel as necessary with respect to IP protection;
* Perform infringement and validity analyses and evaluate risk mitigation strategies;
* Develop relationships with and educate scientists and other employees on patent-related matters;
* Partner with relevant stakeholders across the company to provide strategic IP counseling with respect to research and product development;
* Support litigation, Oppositions, PGRs, and IPRs;
* Assist with licensing, M&A, and other commercial transactions as needed;
* Demonstrated ability to effectively manage and oversee IP team personnel to identify and execute strategic IP efforts;
* Engage with and advise senior management on IP-related issues and initiatives.
* Juris Doctorate from a nationally accredited law school;
* Registration with the USPTO and a member of a state bar (California preferred);
* Advanced degree in Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology; Cancer Genomics, Genetics, Statistics or similar field;
* 10+ years of relevant patent prosecution experience at a law firm or in-house position;
* Experience with drafting, prosecuting, and reviewing patent applications focused on methods for analyzing genomic data from diagnostic next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays;
* Understanding of algorithms and tools used to analyze NGS data, preferably for cancer genomics (e.g., sequence alignment, variant calling);
* Familiarity with library preparation methods used to generate NGS data, including targeted sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, methylation sequencing, or RNA-seq;
* Excellent communicator, project manager, and team player;
* Strong interpersonal skills and be willing to work closely with scientists, managers, and employee teams;
* Adaptable, flexible, and creative in a rapidly changing environment.

Covid Vaccination Policy: Starting January 7, 2022, Guardant Health will require all employees to be fully vaccinated to either (a) establish that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or (b) request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant's COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation. An employee is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination. Acceptable vaccines are approved or under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, fully-vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this Policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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