bumbleinc - Lead Legal Counsel, IP

• Shape and execute Bumble’s global intellectual property strategy in partnership with Legal leadership, translating business, brand, product, and technology priorities into practical approaches to protection, portfolio management, licensing, and enforcement. • Take ownership of significant matters across Bumble’s international trademark, copyright, patent, domain name, trade secret, and broader digital asset portfolio, working with external counsel and specialist providers to protect strategically important intellectual property. • Collaborate with purpose across Marketing, Creative, Brand, Design, Product, and Engineering, providing practical rights-clearance and IP advice from early concept and development through launch, including trademarks, copyright, publicity rights, creator and talent rights, user-generated content, and third-party materials. • Independently lead complex IP enforcement and dispute matters, including infringement, oppositions, litigation support, and evidence management, applying commercial judgement to determine where action can deliver meaningful protection for Bumble’s brands and innovation. • Advise on the creation, ownership, protection, licensing, and commercialisation of Bumble-developed intellectual property, and draft and negotiate sophisticated IP arrangements including licences, coexistence agreements, assignments, merchandising arrangements, technology agreements, and strategic partnerships. • Partner with Product and Engineering on patent strategy, software development, open-source software, and innovation protection, while advising on emerging IP questions involving generative AI, training data, provenance, ownership, licensing, and infringement risk. • Take ownership of IP priorities from insight to impact by supporting due diligence for significant partnerships, investments, and acquisitions and by developing practical playbooks, precedents, training, and self-service guidance that help teams identify and manage IP risk consistently. • Champion Bumble’s values of Excellence and Respect by providing clear, pragmatic advice to senior stakeholders and maintaining an agile mindset as legal, technology, and business priorities evolve. Use approved AI tools where appropriate to strengthen legal research, review, summarisation, and knowledge management, while carefully assessing outputs for accuracy, privacy, bias, and responsible use.