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Active Release Techniques® (ART®) offers the most effective soft-tissue treatment system available today. Utilizing a unique combination of muscle tension and movement to treat aches and pains associated with overuse and dysfunction, more than 80% of issues can be resolved in five or fewer treatment sessions.
Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ART’s vision is to be the FIRST CHOICE for soft-tissue care, and a driver of healthy, active lifestyles. Every position at ART plays a role in fulfilling our mission to power the pursuit of passions, livelihoods, and triumphs by increasing access to higher-quality, more cost-effective care. We work toward this mission through certifying healthcare professionals to provide ART treatment and implementing on-site corporate wellness programs at companies across North America.
The Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property & Enforcement is responsible for identifying, investigating, and resolving violations of ART’s intellectual property and contractual rights, and for ensuring that ART consistently exercises and preserves those rights. The Corporate Counsel will receive education and training on all aspects of the role and will work with ART leadership to develop the framework for a comprehensive IP and contract enforcement program, including matter tracking, etc. Once the foundation is in place, the Corporate Counsel will have clear, documented KPIs, including standards for quantity of work product.
This is a salaried, part-time, remote position requiring approximately 20 hours per week. Workload may vary based upon active enforcement matters and business needs. The Corporate Counsel reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer. While this position is a good fit for professionals that cannot or choose not to commit to full-time employment at this time, there is potential for the right person to develop the position into a broader, full-time role, if that is desired in the future.
Responsibilities – What You’ll Do
- Monitor, identify, investigate, and address unauthorized use of ART trademarks, trade names, copyrighted materials, proprietary educational content, treatment protocols, brand assets, and other intellectual property.
- Maintain a systematic trademark and brand-enforcement program, including investigation, documentation, escalation, and resolution protocols.
- Maintain and revise standardized enforcement templates and documentation procedures.
- Maintain a centralized matter-management system tracking infringements, breaches, correspondence, deadlines, resolutions, and outside-counsel activity.
- Issue cease-and-desist demands, infringement notices, takedown requests, reservation-of-rights letters, and other enforcement communications.
- Pursue unauthorized use of ART intellectual property across websites, social media, digital advertising, educational offerings, provider marketing, merchandise, and other commercial channels.
- Manage disputes involving former providers, licensees, instructors, business partners, competitors, and other third parties continuing to use ART intellectual property without authorization.
- Maintain enforcement files and evidence sufficient to support escalation to arbitration, litigation, administrative proceedings, or other formal remedies when necessary.
- Enforce ART’s rights under provider, licensing, education, corporate-services, vendor, and other commercial agreements.
- Investigate reported or suspected contractual breaches.
- Analyze contractual rights, notice requirements, cure provisions, termination rights, indemnification obligations, restrictive provisions, and available remedies.
- Prepare notices of breach, demands to cure, termination notices, settlement agreements, releases, and related correspondence.
- Work with ART leadership and operational teams to determine appropriate enforcement strategies based on legal risk, commercial considerations, precedent, and long-term business objectives.
- Maintain consistent enforcement standards while appropriately accounting for the facts and commercial significance of individual matters.
- Attempt to resolve disputes efficiently through direct negotiation when doing so adequately protects ART’s rights.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications – What You’ll Bring
- Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and willingness to seek admission in Colorado.
- 1-3 years of relevant legal experience, preferably involving trademark/IP enforcement, commercial litigation, contract disputes, or a combination thereof.
- Experience interpreting and enforcing commercial contracts.
- Thorough knowledge of trademark law principles.
- Experience with drafting demand letters, cease-and-desist proceedings, settlement negotiations, and dispute resolution.
- Excellent legal writing, research, negotiation, and judgment skills.
- Ability to independently investigate a matter, develop an enforcement strategy, and carry it through resolution.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to track and stay on top of multiple matters simultaneously.
- Experience in or passion for health and wellness industry.
- Alignment with ART Core Values.
ART Core Values
- Do the Right Thing: We have the courage to be loyal, selfless, compassionate, and honest, even when it’s hard
- Embody the Will to Win: We are driven by an urgency to relentlessly pursue the mission, celebrating success along the way
- Embrace a Growth Mindset: We are intellectually curious and committed to our collective and individual growth.
- Focus on Solutions: We anticipate challenges and proactively pursue solutions that benefit our team and our stakeholders.
- Stay Humbly Confident: We resolutely believe in ourselves and our service, approaching even the most difficult challenges with dignity and grace.
Benefits + Pay
- Base Salary: $70,000-$85,000/year, depending on experience, for an anticipated 20 hours per week.
- Reimbursement for annual bar/license fees in up to two jurisdictions.
Job Type: Part-time, Remote
As an equal employment opportunity employer, Active Release Techniques does not discriminate in its employment decisions based on race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state, or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.
Pay: $70,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Do you have an active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and willingness to seek admission in Colorado?
Education:
- Doctorate (Required)
Work Location: Remote
Active Release Techniques® (ART®) offers the most effective soft-tissue treatment system available today. Utilizing a unique combination of muscle tension and movement to treat aches and pains associated with overuse and dysfunction, more than 80% of issues can be resolved in five or fewer treatment sessions.
Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, ART’s vision is to be the FIRST CHOICE for soft-tissue care, and a driver of healthy, active lifestyles. Every position at ART plays a role in fulfilling our mission to power the pursuit of passions, livelihoods, and triumphs by increasing access to higher-quality, more cost-effective care. We work toward this mission through certifying healthcare professionals to provide ART treatment and implementing on-site corporate wellness programs at companies across North America.
The Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property & Enforcement is responsible for identifying, investigating, and resolving violations of ART’s intellectual property and contractual rights, and for ensuring that ART consistently exercises and preserves those rights. The Corporate Counsel will receive education and training on all aspects of the role and will work with ART leadership to develop the framework for a comprehensive IP and contract enforcement program, including matter tracking, etc. Once the foundation is in place, the Corporate Counsel will have clear, documented KPIs, including standards for quantity of work product.
This is a salaried, part-time, remote position requiring approximately 20 hours per week. Workload may vary based upon active enforcement matters and business needs. The Corporate Counsel reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer. While this position is a good fit for professionals that cannot or choose not to commit to full-time employment at this time, there is potential for the right person to develop the position into a broader, full-time role, if that is desired in the future.
Responsibilities – What You’ll Do
- Monitor, identify, investigate, and address unauthorized use of ART trademarks, trade names, copyrighted materials, proprietary educational content, treatment protocols, brand assets, and other intellectual property.
- Maintain a systematic trademark and brand-enforcement program, including investigation, documentation, escalation, and resolution protocols.
- Maintain and revise standardized enforcement templates and documentation procedures.
- Maintain a centralized matter-management system tracking infringements, breaches, correspondence, deadlines, resolutions, and outside-counsel activity.
- Issue cease-and-desist demands, infringement notices, takedown requests, reservation-of-rights letters, and other enforcement communications.
- Pursue unauthorized use of ART intellectual property across websites, social media, digital advertising, educational offerings, provider marketing, merchandise, and other commercial channels.
- Manage disputes involving former providers, licensees, instructors, business partners, competitors, and other third parties continuing to use ART intellectual property without authorization.
- Maintain enforcement files and evidence sufficient to support escalation to arbitration, litigation, administrative proceedings, or other formal remedies when necessary.
- Enforce ART’s rights under provider, licensing, education, corporate-services, vendor, and other commercial agreements.
- Investigate reported or suspected contractual breaches.
- Analyze contractual rights, notice requirements, cure provisions, termination rights, indemnification obligations, restrictive provisions, and available remedies.
- Prepare notices of breach, demands to cure, termination notices, settlement agreements, releases, and related correspondence.
- Work with ART leadership and operational teams to determine appropriate enforcement strategies based on legal risk, commercial considerations, precedent, and long-term business objectives.
- Maintain consistent enforcement standards while appropriately accounting for the facts and commercial significance of individual matters.
- Attempt to resolve disputes efficiently through direct negotiation when doing so adequately protects ART’s rights.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications – What You’ll Bring
- Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from an ABA-accredited law school.
- Active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and willingness to seek admission in Colorado.
- 1-3 years of relevant legal experience, preferably involving trademark/IP enforcement, commercial litigation, contract disputes, or a combination thereof.
- Experience interpreting and enforcing commercial contracts.
- Thorough knowledge of trademark law principles.
- Experience with drafting demand letters, cease-and-desist proceedings, settlement negotiations, and dispute resolution.
- Excellent legal writing, research, negotiation, and judgment skills.
- Ability to independently investigate a matter, develop an enforcement strategy, and carry it through resolution.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to track and stay on top of multiple matters simultaneously.
- Experience in or passion for health and wellness industry.
- Alignment with ART Core Values.
ART Core Values
- Do the Right Thing: We have the courage to be loyal, selfless, compassionate, and honest, even when it’s hard
- Embody the Will to Win: We are driven by an urgency to relentlessly pursue the mission, celebrating success along the way
- Embrace a Growth Mindset: We are intellectually curious and committed to our collective and individual growth.
- Focus on Solutions: We anticipate challenges and proactively pursue solutions that benefit our team and our stakeholders.
- Stay Humbly Confident: We resolutely believe in ourselves and our service, approaching even the most difficult challenges with dignity and grace.
Benefits + Pay
- Base Salary: $70,000-$85,000/year, depending on experience, for an anticipated 20 hours per week.
- Reimbursement for annual bar/license fees in up to two jurisdictions.
Job Type: Part-time, Remote
As an equal employment opportunity employer, Active Release Techniques does not discriminate in its employment decisions based on race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state, or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.
Pay: $70,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- Do you have an active license and good standing to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and willingness to seek admission in Colorado?
Education:
- Doctorate (Required)
Work Location: Remote
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Construction & Real Estate
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote director of intellectual property jobs.
- Juris Doctor degree with active bar admission, preferably in a technology or science-related discipline
- 10 or more years of IP law experience with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role
- Direct experience managing patent prosecution, trademark portfolios, or IP licensing programs
- Ability to advise executive leadership and cross-functional teams on IP strategy and risk
- USPTO registration as a patent attorney or patent agent for roles with heavy prosecution responsibilities
- Experience with IP litigation management, inter partes review proceedings, or enforcement actions
Tips for Your Remote Director of Intellectual Property Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of intellectual property openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through listings that mix remote and on-site positions.
Show async IP leadership in your materials
Remote employers want proof you can direct outside counsel, manage prosecution timelines, and advise executives without real-time oversight. Highlight written memos, cross-functional guidance you delivered asynchronously, and portfolio decisions you drove independently from intake through grant.
Prepare for distributed team interview formats
Remote director of intellectual property interviews often run across multiple video calls with legal, product, and executive stakeholders in different time zones. Practice explaining IP strategy decisions in writing as clearly as you would verbally, since panel members may review notes rather than attending live.
Signal remote readiness with concrete tools
Name the docketing platforms, matter management systems, and collaboration tools you have used to run IP programs without centralized office infrastructure. Remote hiring managers for this role look for candidates who already know how to keep a global portfolio moving across distributed teams.
Remote Director of Intellectual Property Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of intellectual property job?
Target remote-first technology companies, pharmaceutical firms, and consumer brands that run distributed legal teams without a central headquarters. Remote employers screen for async communication skills, the ability to manage outside counsel and cross-functional stakeholders without in-person oversight, and deep expertise in patent prosecution, licensing, or portfolio strategy. A demonstrated history of leading IP programs independently, without daily management, gives candidates a clear edge over equally credentialed applicants who have only worked in offices.
Which companies hire remote director of intellectual propertys?
Employers currently hiring remote director of intellectual propertys include Stryker, Clarivate, and Wilson Dutra, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology companies, distributed pharmaceutical and biotech firms, and consumer brands in sectors where IP strategy is central to competitive positioning.
Can you get a remote director of intellectual property job with no experience?
Yes, but remote director of intellectual property roles are senior positions, so true entry-level openings are rare and require strong independent judgment from day one. Candidates without traditional experience can open doors by demonstrating hands-on IP prosecution work, prosecution experience from a law firm, or a portfolio of licensing negotiations. Remote-first companies in early-stage technology or biotech are most likely to take a chance on someone still building their leadership record.
Do you need a degree for remote director of intellectual property jobs?
Usually, but the specific degree matters more than the fact of having one. Most employers expect a law degree alongside a technical undergraduate degree in engineering, chemistry, or computer science, because the role requires credibly directing patent strategy and working with outside counsel. Remote employers weigh demonstrated results, such as a patent portfolio you have built or licensing deals you have closed, alongside formal credentials when evaluating candidates.
Which industries hire the most remote director of intellectual propertys?
Most remote director of intellectual property openings sit in Construction & Real Estate and Consulting & Professional Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed legal and innovation teams where IP strategy can be managed effectively without requiring the director to be on-site.
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