Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PatSnap is a global, pre-IPO company helping organizations make better decisions across Intellectual Property and Research & Development. They are seeking an AI Solutions Lead - IP Legal / Patent Drafting to help shape and scale their AI-powered patent drafting solution by engaging with customers, influencing product development, and supporting strategic customer opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to patent and IP professionals, helping customers understand how AI can improve patent drafting, search, prosecution, portfolio management, and innovation workflows
- Support strategic customer engagements, workshops, product demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and enterprise opportunities alongside Sales and Customer Success teams
- Translate customer challenges and market needs into product enhancements and scalable solutions
- Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to shape the future of AI-powered patent and IP workflows
- Bring real-world practitioner expertise to influence product direction, prioritisation, and workflow design
- Help define and validate new capabilities through customer feedback, testing, and pilot programmes
- Act as the subject matter expert for patent drafting, search, prosecution, and innovation intelligence workflows
- Support the development of AI-powered solutions across patent intelligence, semantic search, knowledge discovery, and workflow automation
- Stay at the forefront of developments in patent AI, LegalTech, and innovation intelligence
- Partner across Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and customer teams to drive successful product adoption and growth
- Develop enablement materials, demo narratives, workflow playbooks, and best practices
- Serve as the bridge between customers, product teams, and commercial teams to ensure we're building solutions that solve real-world problems
Skills
- Hands-on experience drafting patent applications, ideally as a European Patent Attorney, trainee Patent Attorney, Patent Agent, or similar IP professional
- Strong understanding of patent drafting, prosecution, and wider IP workflows
- A genuine interest in technology and curiosity about how AI can improve the way patent professionals work
- Enjoys engaging with customers and is comfortable demonstrating solutions, not just someone who wants to move into product
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build credibility with patent attorneys, IP teams, and innovation leaders
- Comfortable delivering product demonstrations, leading customer discussions, and translating complex workflows into practical solutions
- A commercial mindset with the ability to understand customer challenges and identify opportunities to create value
- Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success teams
- An interest in helping shape products, not just using them
- Experience working with SaaS, LegalTech, IPTech, or AI-powered software products
- Exposure to product management, product ownership, or workflow design
- Familiarity with Generative AI, LLMs, workflow automation, or emerging AI technologies
- Experience supporting enterprise customers, software implementations, or complex B2B workflows
Company Overview
PatSnap is a software development company that provides intellectual property and research and development services. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, SGP, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.patsnap.com/.