Deputy General Counsel (Patent & Innovation Strategy) – Equity Partner

Location: Remote

Jurisdiction: Canada / United States (bonus: EU or international patent familiarity)

Employment Type: Volunteer (Equity Partner)

Commitment: Minimum 20 hours per week

Department: Legal Frontier Innovators (LFI) – Patent & Intellectual Strategy

Reports To: General Counsel

What You’ll Be Doing

This role isn’t about filing forms—it’s about defending the IP spine of a next-generation ecosystem. You’ll operate at the frontier of patent law, legal engineering, and invention strategy across blockchain, AI, real-time infrastructure, creator tools, and immersive interfaces.

You're not here to be reactive. You’re here to build, architect, and lock down the legal rights of innovation that haven’t even been released yet.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Crafting and managing patent strategies for novel AI systems, smart contract logic, UX inventions, token ecosystems, and decentralized compute layers
• Evaluating innovation disclosures and invention statements with product, engineering, and research teams
• Defining the IP fence for Anime Universe's proprietary systems, including UI frameworks, orchestration engines, and economic protocols
• Preparing provisional filings, PCT strategies, and utility/model filings across jurisdictions
• Collaborating with the General Counsel and external counsel on IP protection tactics, enforcement logic, and innovation positioning
• Supporting trade secret policies and innovation pipelines internally

What We’re Looking For

• You are a licensed patent agent or lawyer (Canada or U.S. bar; U.S. PTO bar highly preferred)
• You have 7–10+ years in patent prosecution, IP strategy, or invention analysis
• You understand both hardware-adjacent filings and pure software logic protection
• You have previously supported engineering, R&D, or product teams on how to articulate and structure IP
• You are comfortable working with ambiguity, draft-stage products, and abstract logic
• Bonus: experience in blockchain frameworks, digital content delivery, AI architecture, or runtime UX layers

Who You Are

You see law not as a shield, but as a design space.

You understand the importance of protecting core invention as the market explodes into AI-native, creator-owned, immersive economies.

You can balance speed with legal rigor. You know when to draft, when to disclose, and when to hold.

Compensation

• Equity Partner (standard vesting)
• Tokens (subject to regulatory approval)
• No initial cash salary—this is a builder seat with long-term upside
• Remote-first, async, minimum 20 hours/week