Intellectual Property Counsel

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We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately US$74 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2026.

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Job Summary

Accenture is seeking an intellectual property attorney with at least five years of experience in IP transactional contracting to join our global IP team. The successful candidate will support Accenture’s intellectual property transactions practice, open-source software license compliance, and work closely with senior members of the IP Legal team on a broad range of technology, licensing, commercial, and strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate agreements related to intellectual property and technology transactions, including inbound and outbound software and technology licenses and other IP-related arrangements.
• Support the end-to-end review of the use and development of software incorporating components licensed under free software licenses across diverse product and service teams, with a particular focus on open-source licenses. This includes understanding software deployment, intended use, applicable licensing risks, mitigation strategies, export controls, generative AI implications, and general security risk profiles.
• Support the publication of proprietary source code under open-source licenses, including reviewing corporate contribution agreements, liaising with software engineers, business leaders, and company IP stakeholders, and tracking compliance with Accenture’s policies at each stage of the process.
• Advise internal stakeholders, including business clients, other corporate functions, and legal colleagues, on intellectual property issues arising from commercial, strategic, and corporate transactions.
• Assist in identifying, analyzing, and resolving IP-related issues in client, partner, and other business transactions, working closely with senior IP counsel and business teams.
• Support a variety of IP matters, including technology assessments, joint development projects, content publications, and the review of open-source software clauses in framework agreements.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of IP templates, guidance materials, processes, training materials, AI-enabled agents, and best practices to support the business and mitigate legal risks.
• Conduct legal research and analysis related to intellectual property, technology transactions, and other relevant legal matters.

Qualifications:

Work Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in law / Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school (specialization in Technology and/or Intellectual Property is considered a plus).
• Native Legal English proficiency with strong oral and written communication skills.

Work Experience:  

• At least 5 years of experience that includes IP transactions conducted in English at a law firm, or as in-house corporate counsel and/or in legal outsourcing.
• Knowledge of intellectual property issues relevant to the technology sector. 

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Proactive, organized, and self-motivated and works well in a fast-paced global environment.
• Committed to collaborating with colleagues in the IP team as well as other stakeholders to achieve shared goals, build relationships, and be a strong team player.
• Ability to manage many complex projects successfully, and set and meet priorities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to identify legal risks and propose practical solutions.
• Willingness to learn and develop expertise across a broad range of intellectual property and technology-related legal issues.
• While Trademarks and Patents knowledge is a welcome addition, the focus of the role relies heavily on skills associated with IP transactional contracting and knowledge related to emerging technologies, including Open Source Software, Large Language Models, Generative AI, etc.

Please attach your CV in English.

Benefits:

• 🏥 Medical Insurance – 100% covered by the company for employees and dependents.
• 🦷 Dental Insurance.
• 🍽️ Meal or Food Allowance, with no employee contribution.
• 🛡️ Life Insurance.
• 📈 Private Pension Plan.
• 🏋️ Wellhub.
• 💪 TotalPass.
• 📉 Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a discount.
• 💊 Pharmacy Discounts.
• 👶 Childcare Assistance.
• 📚 Language School Partnership.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Extended Maternity and Paternity Leave.
• 💰 Profit-Sharing Program (PPR).

Benefits are subject to the company's current policies.

Job Location: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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