Intellectual Property Attorney Expert (f/m/d)

Intellectual Property Attorney Expert (f/m/d)

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. We engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. Together we can transform industries, grow economies, lift up societies and sustain our environment.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

As a future IT/IP legal advisor in the Open Technology & IP Counseling team, part of SAP's global IP team, you will advise various SAP departments on IP matters and ensure alignment with SAP's IP strategy. Your tasks will include consulting, reviewing, and negotiating publicly funded projects on both German and European levels. You will provide legal advice on open technologies, such as participation in standardization organizations or support in founding such organizations. Responsibilities will also include collaboration with SAP's Open Source Office, supporting the legal review of open source requests and policies, as well as assisting in the negotiation of OSS clauses.

You will advise and negotiate IP rights, for example, in the labor law context, and participate in developing the IP compliance system, particularly negotiating issues or contracts related to confidentiality and trade secrets.

You will create process documentation, training materials, and internal portal content, carry out process improvement initiatives, and manage internal projects and processes. Keeping updated on the latest legal regulations in the IP area, such as AI, and applying this knowledge in legal counselling will be essential.

Your role will support SAP's corporate goals by balancing legal risks with commercial objectives and ensuring compliance with SAP's policies and processes. You are expected to efficiently handle research and administrative tasks.

YOUR PROFILE

The ideal candidate for the IT/IP Legal Counsel role within the OTIP team at SAP should possess the following qualifications and attributes:

• Fully qualified lawyer in Germany.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in counselling on IP/IT matters in a law firm or in the legal department of an IT company.
• Fluent in both German and English.
• Assertive and convincing personality with a high level of commitment and flexibility.
• Hands-on, open-minded personality with strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent presentation and writing skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and legal professionals and work collaboratively in a diverse team.
• Capacity to provide timely and sound legal advice with an appropriate business perspective.
• Efficient work habits, capable of meeting demanding deadlines and balancing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Open Technologies & IP Counselling Team is part of SAP’s Legal IP department. It supports by counselling on general IP matters and by offering standards and enablement, emphasizing the importance of IP and risk mitigation measures to protect SAP’s IP and to use it strategically.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone feels included and can run at their best. We believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Requisition ID: 419614 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | #LI-Hybrid