[Hiring] Patent Analytics Expert @RELX

Role Description

Do you want your patent analytics expertise to shape the products and AI that others rely on? Do you revel in testing a polished AI answer and finding exactly where its reasoning breaks down? Come join us and help build the world's most trusted patent analytics and AI for IP and business decision-makers!

In this role, you will represent the people who ask these questions, and you will be forward deployed: working closely with the product and engineering teams building specific end-user experiences, rather than advising from a distance. You will define what a genuinely useful answer looks like across different use cases, contexts, and data scenarios, and encode that judgment in artefacts and other mechanisms, including AI agents, so it can scale. You will test our analytics and AI against it and help shape what we build next.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the voice of the various types of end users who use patent analytics for business decisions.
• Define what good looks like across a broad range of AI-assisted uses.
• Capture that definition in governed, versioned question sets, graded example answers, scoring rubrics, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform structured human-in-the-loop evaluations and drive the eyes-on evaluation layer for our AI assistant and analytics features.
• Collaborate closely with other patent experts in the team to develop methods that scale eyes-on human evaluation.
• Help engineering teams troubleshoot issues by working backwards from AI outputs to the underlying data sources.
• Help shape new AI use cases and features.
• Scope and lead your own projects independently.
• Track how competitors and new AI tools serve these users.
• Help capture your judgment in tools and AI assistants.

Qualifications

• Experience using patent data to answer business questions.
• A strong technical background, enough to read patents critically and interpret what their claims cover.
• A solid understanding of patent data and its pitfalls for analysis.
• The ability to explain clearly why an analysis is or is not trustworthy.
• Hands-on analytical skills, for example with analytics platforms, Excel, SQL, or Python.
• Practical use of AI tools in your own analytical work.
• Confidence working independently and presenting recommendations to senior, non-specialist audiences.
• Curiosity about technology, industries and how decision-makers actually use what you give them.

Requirements

• Typically, 3 or more years in patent analytics, competitive intelligence, IP consulting, portfolio management, or related roles.
• A degree in a scientific, engineering, or technical subject, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience with patent analytics platforms.
• Experience with AI evaluation.
• Experience with M&A, IP due diligence, licensing, or portfolio valuation.
• Experience with prior-art or freedom-to-operate work.
• A background in a technology-intensive industry or R&D.
• Experience working with product teams or user researchers.

Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days.
• Health screening, eye care vouchers, and private medical benefits.
• Wellbeing programs.
• Life assurance.
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme.
• Save As You Earn share option scheme.
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer.
• Access to extensive learning and development resources.
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work.