VP of Delivery
Quick Summary
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a VP of Delivery based in the United States.
The VP of Delivery will lead and scale a high-performing technical consulting organization specializing in intellectual property (IP), patent litigation, and monetization support. This executive-level role combines business leadership, technical oversight, and strategic client relationship management. You will oversee distributed teams across the United States and India, ensuring the successful delivery of complex, high-stakes client engagements. The position offers an opportunity to shape the growth of a global practice while maintaining exceptional technical standards and operational performance. You will manage financial results, develop future leaders, and strengthen long-term client partnerships. Working in a fast-growing, AI-enabled consulting environment, you will help drive innovation and deliver technical insights that influence major legal and business outcomes.
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Lead the overall delivery organization, managing a portfolio of client engagements from initial scoping and pricing through execution, quality review, and final delivery.
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Own business performance, including profitability, margins, utilization, budgets, resource allocation, and operational planning.
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Oversee multiple complex projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines, budgets, technical requirements, and client expectations are consistently met.
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Lead, develop, and scale multidisciplinary teams across the United States and India, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and career development.
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Build effective distributed delivery processes, ensuring clear workflows, cross-functional collaboration, and efficient coordination across time zones.
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Serve as the senior relationship owner for key clients, legal counsel, and external stakeholders, leading strategic discussions, resolving escalations, and communicating technical findings.
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Provide technical direction and quality oversight across source code analysis, reverse engineering, Evidence of Use (EoU) claim charts, and technical due diligence.
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Review and approve technical deliverables, ensuring analytical rigor, accuracy, defensibility, and alignment with litigation or licensing strategies.
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Collaborate with expert witnesses, guiding technical investigations, reviewing supporting evidence, and helping develop compelling technical narratives.
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Establish consistent quality standards, methodologies, documentation practices, and training programs to improve delivery excellence.
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Identify opportunities to improve workflows, resource planning, knowledge management, and technology adoption, including AI-enabled tools.
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Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional departments to support strategic initiatives, strengthen client accounts, and identify opportunities for additional business.
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Represent the organization at industry events, professional panels, and continuing legal education programs.
Requirements
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12+ years of experience in technical IP consulting, patent litigation support, or related technical professional services, including substantial hands-on experience in at least one core discipline: source code analysis, reverse engineering, EoU claim charts, or technical due diligence.
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At least 5 years of experience leading technical or professional services teams, including hiring, performance management, mentoring, and career development.
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Proven ability to manage complex client engagements and take ownership of financial performance, including budgets, profitability, utilization, pricing, and resource allocation.
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Strong understanding of intellectual property litigation, patent licensing, monetization, and the technical evidence required to support complex legal matters.
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Broad technical knowledge across multiple technology areas, such as telecommunications, semiconductors, software, AI/ML, cloud computing, cybersecurity, automotive technology, or medical devices.
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Experience leading geographically distributed teams, preferably including international teams and cross-time-zone collaboration.
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Demonstrated ability to develop operational processes, quality standards, delivery methodologies, and scalable team structures.
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Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for executives, legal counsel, technical experts, and other stakeholders.
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Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
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Strong decision-making, strategic planning, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
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Authorization to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
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Additional assets include experience with protective-order source code reviews, programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, Verilog, or VHDL, expert witness support, patent invalidity analysis, IPR proceedings, SEP/FRAND, damages analysis, and AI-assisted technical workflows.
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Advanced degrees (MS, PhD, MBA, or JD), USPTO registration, an active bar license, PMP certification, or Certified ScrumMaster credentials are considered advantageous.
What We Offer
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About this job
- Pay per year
- $175,000–$275,000 a year
- 229% above the $68,380 median for Other jobs on Jobera (136,816 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
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- Today
Listing Details
- Posted
- November 4, 2026
- First seen
- November 4, 2026
- Last seen
- November 4, 2026
Posting Health
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- 0
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- 0
- Trust Level
- 80%
- Scored at
- November 4, 2026
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