Patent Agent – IP Development
Our legal team protects Nielsen’s business, products, intellectual property and reputation. The
team places a focus on developing excellence and agility while we minimize risk and move the
business forward. Whether we’re solving a problem or helping a client achieve their goals, we're
creating the best environment possible to advance Nielsen’s reputation, preserve opportunities,
and help the business flourish.
Nielsen is seeking a non-attorney patent agent to join its Intellectual Property Team on a
permanent basis. The Patent Agent will work alongside Nielsen’s engineers, data scientists, and
other innovators to continue developing a world class patent portfolio to propel Nielsen’s
business goals.
The Patent Agent will work alongside colleagues from the Intellectual Property Team to develop
a patent portfolio to protect technologies related to: design and operation of audience
measurement metering devices; approaches for media recognition and classification leveraging
digital signal processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; approaches for scaling and
deduplicating audience measurement estimates via fusion of multiple data sets leveraging a
variety of data science methodologies; and approaches for assessing audience engagement
and advertising impact.
This fully flexible role is fully remote/work from home (Midwest or Eastern time zones preferred).
Responsibilities
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Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.
A reasonable estimated salary range for a new employee has been provided. It would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.
Nielsen makes hiring decisions without regard to disability status, protected veteran status, or membership in any other protected class.
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