About the Role
Clarivate is a global leader committed to innovation and collaboration, offering an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally. We prioritize excellent work-life balance through a flexible hybrid work model, empowering you to work effectively while maintaining harmony in your life. Our Tokyo office, located on the 18th floor, provides breathtaking views of the city, creating an inspiring space for creativity and teamwork. Join a diverse, forward-thinking organization that values your growth and contributions as we shape the future together. We are looking for an IP Search Analyst/Consultant to join our Intellectual Property (IP) team in Tokyo. This role is responsible for providing patent search and analytics services to our clients to assist them in answering both legal and business-related questions related to Intellectual Property (IP) and reduce the cost of their own operations through strong and scalable operational delivery and a commitment to continuous improvement. The team consists of 7 team members reporting to the Manager, Patent Search & Analytics in the IP division. We would love to speak with you if you have experience within patent search and analysis.
Responsibilities
- Understand customers’ pain points and needs from technology and IP perspective, find the best-fit solution by fully utilizing Clarivate’s professional service capabilities and DB, integrating them, and then develop an attractive, efficient and strong proposal.
- Manage, lead and execute projects, delivering the best results to the customer within the set deadlines and budget by exercising leadership to project members and driving them.
- Conduct data intense analytical works and extract insights from the result of data analytics, compose report or create deliverables and then make strong presentations to customers mainly in Japan, but also in APAC.
- Work closely with Patent Search team, which is a fellow team of IP services specialized in patent search and IP analytics to create highly value-added deliverables.
- Develop new service and new analysis method base on Clarivate’s DBs
Requirements
- Business experience in English
- Business-level conversational English
- Consulting projects (e.g., bid or large-scale projects) project management experience
- Experience outside IP is also acceptable for project management
- Policy, regulatory, and business research experience
- Requirements definition, data collection and processing, report preparation, and presentations consulting delivery work experience
- Engineering-related technical background (specific field not required)
Skills
- Patent and non-patent literature search
- Patent and non-patent literature analysis
- Intellectual property (IP) work experience (approx. 3 years)
- Knowledge of intellectual property
- MS Office tools (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
- Programming (e.g., Python, VBA)
- AI utilization skills
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3 years of IP work experience
About the Company
- Clarivate is a global leader committed to innovation and collaboration.
- The team is part of the IP Services Japan group, specializing in patent search and analytics for global clients across corporates, law firms, academia, and government institutions.
- They work in a high-impact, client-facing environment, delivering complex projects while collaborating closely to ensure quality, accuracy, and timely delivery.
- This role will join a lean, experienced team, playing a key part in maintaining delivery standards and supporting continuity following a senior team member’s departure.
Equal Opportunity
- At Clarivate, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified persons with respect to hiring, compensation, promotion, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. We comply with applicable laws and regulations governing non-discrimination in all locations.
