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Lead Product Manager - Patent Search
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Lead Product Manager - Patent Search
Lead Product Manager, Patent Search
The Lead Product Manager, Patent Search is responsible for defining and executing the vision, strategy, and roadmap for next-generation patent search and discovery experiences within Derwent Patent Search.
This role will lead the evolution of patent search from traditional query-driven workflows to AI-powered or agentic-supported experiences, helping intellectual property (IP) professionals discover, analyze, validate, and act upon patent information with greater efficiency and confidence.
The successful candidate will:
- Be part of Clarivate’s Patent Intelligence, Search, and Analytics product organization, reporting to the Senior Director, Product Management.
- Own a major product area and drive innovation across product, technology, data science, and content teams.
- Deliver transformational capabilities for corporations, law firms, government agencies, and research organizations worldwide.
This is a highly strategic role combining:
- Deep product leadership
- Customer-centric innovation
- Practical application of AI technologies to solve complex patent search and analysis challenges
The individual will:
- Independently shape roadmap priorities
- Identify emerging market opportunities
- Influence product strategy across Clarivate’s broader IP portfolio
About You
We are looking for candidates with:
Core Requirements
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Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in:
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Data Science
- Information Science
- Business
- Law
- Intellectual Property (IP)
- Related discipline
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10+ years of Product Management (PM) experience, with:
- Increasing levels of strategic responsibility and business ownership
- Leading major product areas or multi-year product initiatives
- Experience in B2B software environments
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- Proven track record of:
- Launching innovative customer-facing products:
- Delivering measurable adoption, retention, and business outcomes
- Partnering across:
- Engineering
- UX
- Data Science
- Commercial organizations
- Delivering complex solutions at scale
- Defining product strategy and making independent roadmap decisions
- Influencing executive stakeholders across the organization
- Strong understanding of:
- Customer discovery
- Experimentation
- Product analytics
- Outcome-driven product management
- Launching innovative customer-facing products:
Nice-to-Have Experience
It would be great if you also have:
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Experience working with intellectual property (IP), including:
- Patents
- Trademarks
- Scientific
- Legal or technical information products
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Experience supporting:
- Patent attorneys
- Patent searchers
- IP analysts
- R&D professionals
- Innovation teams
- Technology transfer organizations
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Experience developing:
- AI-enabled products
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Autonomous agents
- Copilots
- User orchestration frameworks
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Understanding of:
- Semantic search
- Enterprise search
- Information retrieval
- Knowledge graphs
- Ranking systems
- Recommendation technologies
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Familiarity with:
- Patent data
- Patent classification systems
- Legal event data
- Citation analysis
- Patent landscapes
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Experience defining responsible AI, governance, explainability, and trust frameworks within enterprise software products.
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Working knowledge of:
- Cloud platforms
- APIs
- Analytics tooling
- Modern software delivery practices
Responsibilities
This role involves:
- Defining and executing the long-term vision and strategy for Derwent Patent Search
- Driving the evolution of patent search experiences from keyword and Boolean search to AI-assisted and agentic-supported workflows
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Identifying customer pain points and opportunities to transform how IP professionals:
- Discover
- Investigate
- Validate relevant prior art
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Delivering differentiated search experiences to strengthen Clarivate’s competitive position within the patent information market
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Defining user experiences that balance:
- Automation
- Transparency
- Explainability
- Professional trust
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Championing customer needs and representing the voice of the user across the organization.
About the Team
Clarivate’s Patent Intelligence, Search, and Analytics group supports customers in:
- Developing, protecting, and investing in their intellectual property (IP) and research and development (R&D).
The team has a 60-year heritage of innovation in the patent space, pioneering:
- Modern patent search
- Patent analytics
- Patent intelligence techniques
Key characteristics:
- Customer-centred experimentation to find value-creating solutions.
- Supports 5,000 client organisations.
- Fast-moving with an aggressive innovation focus.
Working Arrangements
- Full-time permanent position.
- Primarily works core business hours in London.
- Hybrid role:
- 2 days per week in the London office.
- The rest of the week remote.
- Flexibility to adjust to various global time zones as needed.
Clarivate’s commitment to diversity and inclusion: Equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. Compliance with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.
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