4629 - Legal Assistant - San Jose, CA

We are seeking an experienced Legal Assistant to fill a key administrative and operational position directly assisting our Intellectual Property Counsel Group and providing support as necessary to other legal counsel, including the General Counsel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide project coordination with external partners including law firms, executives, and other internal SunPower clients
• Coordinate meeting preparation and alignment with SunPower staff
• Prepare presentations, reports, and documents for operation reviews and Board of Director meetings
• Act as first line of contact for many external inquiries and customers
• Assist with day to day administrative duties including filing, correspondence, expense reporting, scheduling, travel arrangements, copying, proposal and presentation preparation, meeting arrangements, coordination with external partners, technical reporting and budget coordination
• Assist in database maintenance for patent related matters

• Coordinate and work with Administrative and Executive Assistants in a teamwork fashion, providing and receiving support to each other as needed

Education and Experience
• Bachelors degree and at least 2 years of related work experience.

Qualifications
• Excellent overall communication, time management, and analytical skills are required
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, MS Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other related databases
• Previous experience with supporting a legal group (law firm or corporate) a plus
• Previous experience with patent matters a plus
• Excellent qualitative and analytical skills; an ability to handle many duties with time sensitive deadlines; a strong sense of initiative and discretion; and an ability to create technical presentations and develop and maintain databases of contacts and initiatives

Please send resume to David.Sneed@sunpowercorp.com.