Intellectual Property Domain Management Specialist

Job Summary: Accenture seeks a domain management and intellectual property specialist with at least 6 years of domain name management and online brand enforcement experience to join our global IP team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists in the management of Accenture’s domain name portfolio and domain transfer processes. Coordinates with internal and external teams to resolve issues and manage risk.

• Oversees a portfolio of several thousand domains

• Partners with other corporate functions departments, including Marketing and Information Security, to ensure that the portfolio is compliant with Accenture policies.

• Supports the IP team by providing operational support in the management of Accenture’s trademark and domain name portfolios.

• Assists in domain-related investigations, enforcement, and due diligence.

• Supports the IP team in developing and implementing domain processes, enterprise programs, templates, strategic initiatives, best practices, and training designed to mitigate risks and maximize business outcomes.

Qualifications:

Work Experience:  

·       At least 6 years of domain-related project management experience.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

·       Proactive, organized, and self-motivated and works well in a fast-paced global environment.

·       Committed to collaborating with colleagues in the IP team as well as other stakeholders to achieve shared goals, build relationships, and be a strong team player.

·       Skilled in anticipating obstacles and risks, and developing innovative solutions in alignment with business strategy.

·       Ability to manage many complex projects successfully, and set and meet priorities.

·       Strong knowledge of domain registrations and maintenance, including an ability to partner with other teams from Information Security, Messaging & Collaboration, Business Architecture, Internet Protocol DNS Services, Marketing, and Legal to oversee and implement their requests and technical requirements.

·       Ability to monitor and respond to an inbox for questions related to Accenture’s domain portfolio.

·       Ability to document Accenture’s evolving domain process standards and review them periodically to ensure process adherence, updating them as business conditions change and technologies evolved.

·       Knowledge and experience with domain transfers, including registrar requirements, transition of zone files, and related ICANN policies.

·       Experience analyzing and auditing domain portfolios to determine their value to an organization and make decisions as to renewals and lapses.

·       Experience with mergers and acquisitions, specifically including the transfer and integration of domains acquired in deals.

·       Experience with risk mitigation and enforcement in the domain name and social media spaces, including investigations of phishing and brand impersonation, suspension requests to registrars, hosting providers, and social platforms, monitoring third-party registrations for potentially infringing conduct, and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) complaints.

·       Experience managing relationships with vendors related to domain and trademark portfolios.

·       Ability to compile evidence in support of domain and trademark oppositions, cancellations, and disputes.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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