Company Description
Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant® is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn , X (Twitter) and Facebook .
Guardant Health, Inc. is seeking an experienced and motivated Staff Patent Agent to join its Intellectual Property (IP) Team.
As a member of the IP Team, you will be responsible for providing guidance on a wide range of IP and general legal matters related to the cancer diagnostics field. You will combine your legal and technical knowledge to implement and execute the company’s IP strategy for Guardant’s growing patent portfolio. The technology you will be exposed to is critical to Guardant’s mission of improving the lives of cancer patients.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage a global patent portfolio, including preparing and prosecuting patent applications, conducting invention harvesting activities, and evaluating the patentability of invention disclosures.
- Partner with members of the IP Team to support patent portfolio development and execution of the company's intellectual property strategy.
- Coordinate with and manage outside counsel in connection with patent prosecution and other IP-related matters.
- Conduct patentability, infringement, and validity analyses and provide recommendations regarding associated risks and mitigation strategies.
- Educate scientists and other employees on patent-related matters and support invention disclosure and patent filing processes.
- Provide IP counseling to research and product development teams regarding patent protection and related intellectual property considerations.
- Support intellectual property aspects of litigation, disputes, licensing activities, and commercial transactions as needed.
- Monitor developments in relevant technology and competitive patent landscapes to help inform patent portfolio decisions.
Qualifications
- Typically a Bachelor’s Degree with ~8–12 years (or 6–8 with Master’s / 3–5 with PhD/PharmD/MD)
- Registration with the USPTO
- Advanced degree in Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology; Cancer Genomics, Genetics, Statistics or similar field (preferred)
- 8+ years of relevant patent prosecution experience including at a law firm, and preferably further including at least 3 yearsin-house experience
- Experience with drafting, prosecuting, and reviewing patent applications focused on methods for analyzing genomic data from diagnostic next-generation sequencing (NGS) assays
- Understanding of algorithms and tools used in cancer genomics (e.g., sequence alignment, variant calling)
- Excellent communicator, project manager excellent at meeting deadlines, keeping manager updated on work products, and team player
- Strong interpersonal skills and be willing to work closely with scientists, managers, and employee teams
- Adaptable, flexible, and creative in a rapidly changing environment.
Highly Preferred:
Familiarity with library preparation methods used to generate NGS data, including targeted sequencing, whole-genome sequencing, methylation sequencing, or RNA-seq
Hybrid Work Model: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. This range does not include benefits or, if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, education, job-related skills, job duties, and business need. Primary Location: Palo Alto, CA Primary Location Base Pay Range: $157,000 - $215,900 Other US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $133,450 - $183,515 If the role is performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is: $141,300 - $194,310
Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected]
A background screening including criminal history is required for this role. GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).
Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
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