Intellectual Property Analyst

Help protect, grow, and unlock the value of cutting-edge engineering innovation

Intellectual property isn’t a box-ticking exercise here it’s a core business asset. We’re looking for a part-time IP Officer to deliver an established IP strategy and ensure innovation is protected, scalable, and investor ready.

This is a hands-on, in-house role focused on execution. The IP strategy is already defined your mission is to bring it to life. You’ll work closely with the CTO and R&D leadership, embedded with the engineering team, identifying new IP, managing the patent process, and ensuring every filing adds real business value.

• Delivering and maintaining an agreed IP strategy
• Working with engineers to identify new IP ideas and opportunities
• Managing invention disclosures, IP logs, and patent workflows
• Coordinating patent filings with external IP partners
• Supporting multi-country IP activity for a globally scalable product
• Running prior art and Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) searches
• Keeping IP records investor-ready

• Experience or strong interest in intellectual property
• A technical or engineering background (mechanical systems / 3D / manufacturing a big plus)
• Comfort working in a start-up or scale-up environment where products are actively being built
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and translate ideas into protectable IP
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable owning processes end-to-end

• Direct collaboration with the CTO
• High-impact role shaping IP around real engineering innovation
• Exposure to global IP strategy and filings
• Opportunity to grow the role as the business scales

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