Lead the B2B GO BUSINESS unit by designing and executing sales strategy, managing and developing the sales organization, and coordinating with planning, marketing, and product teams to grow the corporate mobility business.
About this role
The Intellectual Property Strategy Office member supports intellectual property work for mobility products, services, and technologies. The scope includes the GO ride-hailing app, IoT devices such as rear-seat tablets and software meters, GX, logistics DX, autonomous driving, and new mobility business models.
Day-to-day responsibilities include responding to preliminary consultations from business planning and development departments; identifying the company’s intellectual property; preparing applications; pursuing and managing rights; evaluating intellectual property; and assessing and responding to third-party intellectual property rights. The main assignment is domestic intellectual property practice in patent-related fields, including rights acquisition work.
The required qualification is at least three years of experience in patent-related rights acquisition work at an operating company, including identifying inventions, filing patent applications, and handling prosecution procedures. Experience in patent work or development in the ride-hailing field, software patent practice, identifying inventions from development materials, analyzing other companies’ products and services for patent work, and conducting infringement or invalidity-reason investigations is welcomed.
The role requires the ability to understand the technology and mechanisms of products and services and express them logically. It involves communication with business planning and development teams, executives, business leaders, patent firms, and law firms, as well as autonomous issue identification, schedule and deadline management, and independent work execution.
The position is full-time and based in Minato-ku, Tokyo. Compensation is 6.5 million to 9 million JPY per year, including a fixed allowance for 45 hours of non-statutory overtime, with two evaluations per year. Benefits include transportation expenses up to 50,000 JPY per month, social insurance, a taxi subsidy program, a monthly New Normal allowance, child allowance, a welcome lunch program, book-purchase support, club activities, and casual clothing. Working hours use a super flextime system without core hours. Holidays include Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, paid leave, year-end and New Year holidays, condolence leave, nursing-care leave, and childcare nursing leave.
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