Senior Director, Intellectual Property Counsel

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.

What You'll Do

The Senior Director, Intellectual Property & Product Counsel, is a key player within the Teradata Law Organization, leading Teradata’s intellectual property strategy and overseeing a small team of IP professionals as well as Teradata’s Product Counsel function. This role serves as a strategic legal partner to Product Engineering, Go-to-Market, Ethics & Compliance, and other Law Organization stakeholders, helping Teradata protect and leverage its innovation while enabling responsible product development, launch, and lifecycle management. The Senior Director will operate as a trusted business partner across the enterprise.

Key Areas of Responsibility

*Intellectual Property Strategy & Portfolio Management*

• Lead Teradata’s global IP strategy across patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, open-source, and related IP assets, aligned with product roadmap, competitive positioning, and business priorities.
• Oversee invention harvesting, patent filing, prosecution, maintenance, and portfolio management globally, directing outside counsel to ensure strategic, cost-effective protection of high-value innovation.
• Advise Product Engineering, research, marketing, and GTM teams on IP protection, competitive risk, licensing, open-source governance, and product differentiation.
• Support IP aspects of strategic transactions, partnerships, M&A, licensing, customer negotiations, and disputes, coordinating with Commercial Law, Litigation,