Product Owner – Patent Renewals & IP Recordals

As a Product Owner, you will play a key role in developing and executing the future of the IP Maintenance products. The role holder will act as a catalyst between strategy and delivery by providing subject matter expertise to maximise product value through the development team. This role requires a strong understanding of customer requirements in the IP Maintenance space.

About IP Solutions
 

RWS IP Solutions is the world’s leading provider of intellectual property support services. With over 60 years of experience, our leadership in high quality patent translations, foreign patent filing, IP research and patent renewal services is unrivalled. Combining expert patent translators and advanced technology ensure translations of the highest consistency and quality.

We help streamline clients’ internal processes, providing flexible, cost-effective foreign filing services reducing the administrative burden associated with protecting IP on a global scale. We offer patent renewals and recordals services, as well as the widest range of IP research services on the market. RWS IP Solutions supports its clients throughout the entire IP lifecycle, from concept to commercialisation. RWS clients include many of the world's best known brands, and 18 out of 20 of the world’s largest patent filers.

For further information, please visit: RWS IP Solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Translate the product vision and strategy for IP Maintenance service and software products into roadmap.
• Understand customer IP Maintenance requirements and opportunities to drive product feature differentiation. 
• Analyse customer feedback and incorporate it into the product development process.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business analysts and developers, creating, maintaining, and prioritising the product development based on the product roadmap outlining key milestones and release schedules.
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with the development team to progress against the IP Maintenance service and IP Portal roadmap.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to ensure appropriate GTM, messaging and support is provided for IP Maintenance service and IP Portal
• Support the development of market facing materials.
• Support the development of internal training collateral.
• Tailor demonstrations for external and internal customers to identify how IP Maintenance services and product features drive value for target markets and customer personas.
• Stay current on market trends and industry developments.
• Actively participate in the Product Management community through knowledge sharing and collateral development.

Skills & Experience

• Subject Matter Expert in IP Maintenance
• 5 years + experience in IP industry
• Basic understanding about project and methodology
• Strong knowledge about existing business processes, company vision, and future requirements
• Skilled in problem solving and analysing business information.
• Proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Ability to challenge the status quo.
• Ability to describe business processes

At RWS, we’re here for one purpose: unlocking global understanding.

As a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services, we remove the barriers to communication to make global connection possible. Our unrivalled experience and deep understanding of language have been developed over more than 60 years. As we look to shape the future, our ambition is to create a world where understanding is universal for everyone.

We work with over 80% of the world’s top 100 brands, more than three-quarters of Fortune’s 20 ‘Most Admired Companies’ and almost all the top pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, law firms and patent filers. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. Our 65+ global locations across five continents service clients in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors.   

Over the past 20 years we’ve been evolving our own AI solutions as well as helping clients to explore, build and use multilingual AI applications. With 45+ AI-related patents and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, we have the experience and expertise to support clients on their AI journey.

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about breaking down language barriers and giving back to their communities, then you’ll love life at RWS. Our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong.

We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner with colleagues and clients, to adopt a pioneering spirit, to be positive in progressing the work we do, and always to deliver what we promise. 

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as One RWS.

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