1inch - Corporate Counsel

• You have at least seven years of legal experience, with a focus on intellectual property. • You have managed patent strategy and portfolio development, working with engineers to identify patentable innovations, prepare technical disclosures and guide applications through national and international filing procedures. • You have a proven record of supporting M&A and group reorganizations from an intellectual property perspective. • You are familiar with global entity structuring, general corporate contracts and governance. • You have a strong command of intellectual property law across jurisdictions, particularly Dubai local law and US Patent law. • You can connect high-level strategy with detailed delivery, develop pragmatic solutions through weighted risk analysis and translate legal obligations into operational processes and controls. • You can navigate legal ambiguity in fast-changing technical environments and manage multiple important initiatives under time pressure. • You bring strong critical-thinking, synthesis and communication skills, with the ability to persuade and influence internal and external stakeholders. • You are collaborative, practical and solutions-oriented, and can balance legal risk with commercial realities. • You are a proactive self-starter who can work autonomously across time zones. • Experience combining law-firm practice with an in-house role at a technology company. • Experience developing internal frameworks for intellectual property identification and inventor-contribution workflows in a scaling technology organization. • Experience leading the patent-prosecution lifecycle, including prior-art searches, claim drafting, office-action responses and coordination with local agents in jurisdictions such as the USPTO and EPO. • Familiarity with crypto, DeFi or open-source ecosystems.