You will lead the company's IP program, partnering closely with engineering, marketing, product, program management, business development, and mission teams to identify proprietary innovations and implement appropriate protections the company's IP portfolios, negotiate and manage licenses, establish the practical processes that turn day-to-day engineering into defensible IP, and serve as the go-to resource for stakeholders across the company on strategy, ownership, and risk. Build and manage the practical infrastructure for IP: invention mining and disclosure processes, patent and trade secret decision-making, trade secret protection practices, including identification, access controls, and documentation, and clear guidance for engineers and software teams on protecting what they create.