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Country Intellectual Property (IP) Lead

Brisbane, Queensland; Adelaide, South Australia; Sydney, New South Wales; Port Melbourne, Victoria Job ID JR2025459650 Category Business Role Type Hybrid Post Date Jun. 26, 2025 Security Clearance Required
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Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

We are seeking a talented Country Intellectual Property (IP) Lead to support Boeing’s Australian-based subsidiaries (Boeing Defense Australia, Insitu Pacific, etc.). The position requires close collaboration and frequent communication across the Boeing enterprise including leaders within our engineering and technology divisions and all Business Units. The Country Intellectual Property (IP) Lead will work with the Boeing Intellectual Property (BIP) organisations’ Leadership Team, the Law Department, Engineering, and Business Unit Leaders as a country lead to ensure The Boeing Company is capturing, protecting, and enabling our patent portfolio and trade secrets.  This individual plays a key role in the management of intellectual property and commercialization of Boeing products and services in the region.

This role reports to the Executive IP Lead based in, Virginia, USA. Due to the International nature of the role and business as a whole, there may be the requirement to support after hours meetings and calls, however flexibility is encouraged.

Responsibilities:

  • Being the central point of contact for IP rights inquiries and protection advice
  • Working with the businesses to ensure compliance with Boeing IP strategy and broader Boeing IP policies
  • Developing and advising stakeholders on appropriate enterprise unified IP strategies to support and protect the business’ current and future objectives
  • Leading and/or supporting IP contracted deliverables, such as IP schedules or related documentation, as appropriate
  • Providing leadership and technical oversight of a local team of IP specialists
  • Understanding enterprise level IP policy and procedure and enabling subsidiary compliance, including supporting the development and/or revision of local IP policy and procedure
  • Assisting other functions, such as contracts, taxation and supply chain, with recommendations for IP ownership, IP licensing/transfer pricing, IP risk assessments, and understanding IP rights and obligations
  • Advising the business on application of processes and tools for managing IP, including management of trade secrets and other proprietary information
  • Monitoring changes in IP regulations and practices
  • Developing and conducting general and country specific IP Training to strengthen IP awareness

This position is ideally located in Brisbane, however dependent upon the successful candidate's location, may be based at our offices in Sydney, Adelaide, Newcastle or Melbourne. 

About You:

  • Extensive knowledge of Intellectual Property (IP) rights and the legislated requirements and processes for protection;
  • Experience developing IP strategies (protection and commercialization), policies, procedures and processes;
  • Experience with providing technical support on patent strategy development, target portfolio development, patent portfolio management, portfolio mining;
  • Experience with invention disclosure harvesting;
  • Experience working with processes and procedures for creation of Intellectual Property (IP), rights, and the legal status of various forms of IP (e.g., patent prosecution and registration, trademark registration, copyright ownership, trade secret protection, etc.);
  • Requires analytical skills, critical thinking, confidence and cross functional relationship building, strong communication, as well as a self-motivated and persuasive personality with a positive attitude. 
  • A global mindset and be willing to participate in international level strategy and meetings
  • Experience with Australian defence contracting and ASDEFCON (preferred but not essential)

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Science and/or Law, or related field is preferred but not essential
  • Qualified as a Patent Attorney is preferred but not essential,

Experience/Skills

  • Excellent business judgement and strategic thinking, with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work on multiple work items and balance priorities whilst delivering to strict deadlines
  • Ability to manage complex projects and a large volume of matters, meet deadlines, and prioritize as needed

Eligibility

Applicants must be a citizen to meet defence requirements, and either hold, or be eligible to obtain, an Australian defence security clearance.

About Us

Boeing Australia and New Zealand are shaping the future of aerospace and delivering some of the nation's most important programs for both the defence space and the manufacturing of composite components for commercial aircraft. From the seabed to outer space, we have helped shape aerospace, manufacturing and defence innovations in Australia over the past 95 years.

In addition to a competitive salary, our employees benefit from flexible working options, global opportunities, salary packaging, performance incentives, study assistance, wellbeing programs and discounts on health insurance, travel and accommodation.

We’re also committed to fostering an environment that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive for every employee, with great opportunities for professional growth.

As an equal opportunity employer, female candidates, people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent and ex-defence personnel are encouraged to apply. We are also open to candidates from other industries including mining, communications, ICT and oil and gas. If you don’t meet 100% of the criteria for this role although you have the right foundational experience and qualifications, don’t hesitate to apply.

Benefits

  • Cutting edge projects
  • Flexible working options
  • Competitive remuneration and incentive plan available
  • Discounts for health insurance, travel and accommodation
  • Salary packaging options
  • Health and wellbeing benefits
  • Study assistance

Applications for this position will be accepted until Jul. 11, 2025


Export Control Requirements: This is not an Export Control position.

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance

Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet defence security requirements with the ability to obtain an Baseline clearance

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Not a Shift Worker (Australia)


Equal Opportunity Employer:

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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