[Hiring] IP Program Manager @Launch Legends

Role Description

We’re offering a unique opportunity to join Launch Legends (and Autheo) as a part-time Equity Cofounder. This role reports to the Managing Directors and works day to day with the IP Patent Attorney and the IP Patent Paralegal.

Autheo is recruiting an IP Program Manager to run patent operations and the invention pipeline for the Layer-0 Operating System and the integrated Layer-1:

• Protocol and cryptography work
• DevHub
• TheoID and its post-quantum roadmap (NIST ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA)
• Autheo Marketplace
• THEO AI
• DePIN
• Related software

This is a patent-operations seat. We want someone who has run a docket, an invention-disclosure program, or an IP-operations function.

Part-time does not mean advisory. Equity cofounder means you own the pipeline and the operating cadence, and you work next to the attorney, the paralegal, and inventors rather than above them.

Qualifications

• 5+ years running patent or IP operations, or an invention-disclosure program, at a law firm, a corporate IP department, or a university technology-transfer office.
• Hands-on experience with an IP management or docketing system (for example Anaqua, CPA, Clarivate, or an equivalent).
• Working knowledge of USPTO and PCT process enough to track provisionals, office actions, PCT filings, national phases, and related formalities.
• Experience coordinating attorneys, paralegals, and inventors through a multi-matter pipeline with hard statutory deadlines.
• Comfortable working with highly technical engineering and research teams in a distributed cofounder environment.

Requirements

• Coordinate workflow among the IP Patent Attorney, the IP Patent Paralegal, inventors, engineering leads, and, where used, outside counsel.
• Facilitate invention-harvesting meetings with engineers, researchers, and founders across Autheo’s technical surfaces.
• Own the patent operations pipeline: timelines, status, owners, and the path from disclosure to provisional, conversion, office action, PCT, and national phase.
• Build and maintain portfolio dashboards and KPIs the attorney and Managing Directors can use.
• Set clear handoffs: what the inventor provides, what the program manager prepares, what the paralegal files, and what the attorney decides.

Benefits

• This is a part-time equity/token-based cofounder opportunity.
• You will receive equity in Launch Legends, Autheo, and the WFO Creator Network.
• Token allocations in the Autheo blockchain.
• Remote work with a direct line to the engineering leads and the Managing Directors.

First 90 Days

• A written map of Autheo’s current invention and filing pipeline: what’s disclosed, what’s filed, what’s due, and what’s missing.
• An invention-intake and harvesting cadence in use across priority technical surfaces.
• A working portfolio dashboard (deadlines, status, owners, and basic KPIs) that the attorney and Managing Directors can review on a regular cadence.
• Documented handoff and communication protocols among the IP Patent Attorney, the IP Patent Paralegal, inventors, and, where used, outside counsel.