PatentExpress.AI Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

PatentExpress.AICo-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerMountain View, California · On Site · Full Time · $80,000–$100,000 + Founder-Level EquityA PatentVC | Trademarkia Incubated Company Being Built for SpinoutPatentExpress.AI is currently incubated by PatentVC and Trademarkia.The product, technology, patent portfolio, legal infrastructure, engineering resources, and initial distribution already exist.The goal is to spin PatentExpress.AI out as an independent NewCo, with the incoming CEO joining as a true co-founder with founder-level equity and leading the company toward institutional venture financing.We are looking for that person.This is not a conventional hired-CEO position or a business-unit role within Trademarkia. It is an opportunity to take an unusually developed product, launch it, find product-market fit, build the founding team, spin out the company, and raise venture capital to scale it.You are joining as a co-founder with meaningful founder-level ownership in the company you will help build.What We've BuiltMost co-founders begin with an idea and a deck.You will begin with substantially more.PatentExpress.AI prepares a complete, rule-validated U.S. patent application from approximately a ten-minute conversation. Inventors review the application before paying and file only after approving it.Our core offering is priced at $995, compared with the $8,000–$15,000 commonly charged by traditional patent firms.The platform includes multimodal intake, adaptive questionnaires, statutory-bar screening, staged patent generation, rule validation, design-patent workflows, fee calculation, approval-gated filing, and docketing.Voice-first intake supports English, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and French. PatentExpress.AI also has its own patent family protecting important elements of the platform.You are not starting with a PowerPoint. You are starting with a product. Your job is to turn it into a company.Why This Company Should ExistPatent protection remains inaccessible to many inventors and small businesses. Professional patent preparation can cost thousands of dollars, while self-filers face a system that is extraordinarily difficult to navigate correctly.AI can fundamentally change those economics.Most patent AI companies use AI to make patent professionals faster.We are using AI to make patent protection purchasable.We intend to build the category-defining patent platform for inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.The Spinout OpportunityOur roadmap is:Incubate → Launch → Product-Market Fit → Spin Out → Raise VC → ScalePatentVC and Trademarkia provide a head start that would normally take a founding team years and significant capital to assemble.But inherited assets are not a company.The Co-Founder & CEO will convert those advantages into an independent, venture-scale business and help shape the NewCo's strategy, product, team, culture, economics, capitalization, and financing.You are neither an executive being hired to execute someone else's finished plan nor a founder being handed a blank sheet of paper. You are a co-founder being handed a substantial head start.What You Will Own1. Build the CompanyEstablish operating cadence, recruit the founding team, allocate capital, define KPIs, and make product and go-to-market decisions.Turn PatentExpress.AI from an incubated product into an independent company.We want someone who thinks like an owner because you will be one.2. Find Product-Market FitThe product exists. Meaningful revenue does not yet.Get real inventors through the complete journey from discovery to application generation, payment, approval, and filing.Learn personally why customers buy, abandon, trust, and recommend the product. Then iterate aggressively.3. Own Patent QualityEstablish measurable standards for claim scope, specification support, formal compliance, prosecution efficiency, abandonment, and patent outcomes.The goal isn't simply to generate applications cheaply.It is to produce good patent applications dramatically more affordably.4. Build the AI AdvantageOur patent family contemplates a closed-loop system in which an application is generated, examined by our own AI, improved in response, and presented to the inventor before filing.Turning that vision into production could become an important competitive advantage.5. Build the Growth EngineTrademarkia has served more than 125,000 small-business customers, providing a potentially powerful initial distribution channel.But inherited distribution isn't product-market fit.You will own pricing, acquisition, conversion, CAC, contribution margin, retention, and customer lifetime value.Potential lifecycle offerings include docketing, prior-art searches, IDS preparation, PCT filings, national-phase filings, and related patent services.6. Build Scalable OperationsBuild the combination of software, automation, operations, and patent professionals necessary to handle 10x and eventually 100x volume without sacrificing quality.7. Spin Out the NewCoHelp transition PatentExpress.AI from incubation into an independent company.Build the team, culture, operating model, capitalization, and financial discipline required for PatentExpress.AI to stand independently from PatentVC and Trademarkia.8. Raise Venture CapitalOnce we demonstrate product-market fit, quality, and attractive economics, you will lead institutional financing.Develop the story, build investor relationships, recruit the right board, and raise the capital necessary to pursue a large market.Fundraising isn't the business. Building something investors want to fund is.9. Think GloballyVoice-first intake already supports five languages. International inventors face significant barriers accessing the U.S. patent system and could ultimately represent one of PatentExpress.AI's largest markets.Who We're Looking ForDeep patent expertise. Ideally, you are a registered U.S. patent attorney or patent agent with meaningful drafting and prosecution experience. We will also consider exceptional legal-tech founders or operators with equivalent patent expertise.A builder. You have built a startup, product, practice group, business unit, or technology initiative.Entrepreneurial. You want to find product-market fit, not optimize an established P&L.Commercial. You are comfortable owning pricing, CAC, conversion, margins, and growth.AI-native but professionally skeptical. You believe AI can transform patent preparation while understanding its limitations.Founder-minded. You care about ownership and long-term enterprise value more than maximizing today's salary.In Mountain View. This is an in-person founding role.Probably Not for You If...You want a $300,000 CEO salary, a mature organization, an established management team, or someone else to establish product-market fit before you arrive.There are better jobs for those objectives.This opportunity is for someone who wants to own a meaningful part of a company they help create.What You're InheritingProduct: A functioning AI platform covering utility and design patent workflows.IP: An existing patent family protecting important elements of the technology.Legal infrastructure: Access to an established U.S. intellectual-property practice for professional offerings.Distribution: Trademarkia's base of more than 125,000 small-business customers and organic reach.Incubation: PatentVC and Trademarkia resources that give the founding team a substantial head start.Compensation & Founder OwnershipBase salary: $80,000–$100,000Plus meaningful founder-level equity in the PatentExpress.AI NewCo.The cash compensation is deliberately below that of a conventional technology CEO because we are recruiting an owner and co-founder, not simply an executive employee.PatentExpress.AI is currently incubated within the PatentVC | Trademarkia ecosystem and is intended to be spun out into an independent NewCo.The incoming Co-Founder & CEO will receive meaningful founder-level equity in that company. Precise ownership, vesting, capitalization, and other terms will be established as part of structuring the NewCo and will depend on experience, commitment, and role.If you help turn an incubated product into a major independent company, your ownership should matter.Our goal is to establish product-market fit, spin out PatentExpress.AI, raise institutional venture capital, and build the category-defining company for accessible patent protection.How to ApplySend your resume and concise answers to these questions instead of a traditional cover letter:1. Patent Judgment: Identify one change to a patent application you drafted or reviewed that would have made it materially stronger.2. Founder Judgment: Why can PatentExpress.AI win by selling patent protection directly to inventors, and what would you do in your first 90 days to prove it?3. Capital Allocation: If you had $1 million and 12 months, what three things would you spend it on—and what would you refuse to spend it on?If you disagree with something in this description, tell us.That's part of the job.