Senior Intellectual Property Counsel - F/M
Salomon SAS
As a Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, reporting to the Legal and Intellectual Property Director, you will lead the strategy for protecting and enhancing Salomon's intangible assets both in France and internationally. You will collaborate with innovation, marketing, and digital teams on their strategic projects.Your Main ResponsibilitiesStrategy & Governance of Intellectual PropertyDefine and steer the overall intellectual property strategy (trademarks, copyrights, domain names) in alignment with the brand’s innovation and development strategy.Develop and implement the international trademark protection strategy: define geographical scopes, product/service classes, and strategic extensions.Oversee the defense strategy for trademarks and domain names: monitoring, oppositions, infringement actions, and litigation, in collaboration with external counsel or agents.Conduct active legal and competitive monitoring on developments in IP law and industry practices.Operational Management & Process OptimizationSupervise the management of the trademark portfolio: filings, renewals, and maintaining validity with the support of the paralegal team.Manage the domain name portfolio: strategic registrations, renewals, and monitoring of abusive registrations (cybersquatting, typosquatting).Establish efficient and traceable internal processes: validation workflows, responsibilities distribution, KPIs, dashboards.Daily management of the paralegal team: prioritizing tasks, supervising implementation of trademark and domain name management strategies, managing digital tools, and developing skills.Optimize IP budgets and relationships with industrial property advisors in France and abroad.Contractualization & Legal SecurityAnalyze and negotiate, in collaboration with contract lawyers, intellectual property clauses in strategic contracts: partnerships, creative services, sponsorships, influencers, licenses, distribution, digital contracts.Secure ownership of creations and innovations: rights ownership, copyrights, rights transfers, digital uses, creations by generative AI.Support business teams in the legal structuring of their projects (name creation, co-development, creative collaborations, digital content).Anti-Counterfeiting, Trademark & Domain Name ProtectionImplement a counterfeiting prevention and detection strategy: monitoring of marketplaces, social networks, physical points of sale, dropshipping.Defend domain names: proactive measures and legal actions.
Jan 29, 2026