Paralegal

Description

Paralegal

Protect What Inspires. Help What Creates.

At Stampin’ Up!, we believe creativity is more than crafting. It’s about connection, community, and making a difference in people’s lives. Behind every product launch, policy update, intellectual property filing, and global business decision is a team of passionate people working together to support and protect what makes our company unique.

If you're a curious, detail-loving problem solver who enjoys digging into complex questions, connecting the dots, building strong relationships, and helping a business find practical solutions, we'd love to meet you.

About Stampin’ Up!

At Stampin’ Up!, we help people around the world create, connect, and share through handmade creativity. For more than 35 years, we've built a global community centered on inspiration, belonging, and meaningful relationships.

Our values guide everything we do:

• We care about people first
• We act with courage
• We better our best
• We own it

As a member of our Legal team, you’ll play an important role in helping us operate responsibly, protect our brand, support innovation, and navigate an ever-changing global business landscape.

Role Overview

As our Paralegal , you’ll be a trusted legal and business partner supporting product development, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, contracts, governance, and other legal initiatives. You'll work closely with teams throughout the organization to help ensure our business operates effectively, ethically, and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

This is a research-intensive, analytical role for someone who enjoys tackling questions where the answer isn’t immediately apparent. You’ll investigate legal and regulatory requirements, identify risks and broader business implications, and turn complex findings into clear, practical recommendations.

You’ll work closely with teams across the organization to identify legal, regulatory, and intellectual property considerations early and support products from concept through market.

If you enjoy being handed a complex question, figuring out what you need to know, finding the governing authority, connecting the dots across the business, and recommending a path forward, you’ll likely thrive in this role.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with the Product teams throughout the product-development process to identify regulatory, intellectual property, testing, labeling, packaging, customs, import/export, environmental, and market-access considerations, including preliminary trademark and patent research and review of relevant patent claims.
• Conduct substantive legal and regulatory research on complex or unfamiliar issues, using statutes, regulations, agency guidance, case law, standards, and other authoritative sources to determine what applies, identify risks and information gaps, and develop practical recommendations for the business.
• Manage the company’s intellectual property portfolio, including trademark, copyright, and patent administration, filings, renewals, monitoring, enforcement activities, and coordination with outside counsel.
• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate contracts within established guidelines, identifying legal and business risks and recommending practical revisions or alternative language.
• Work cross-functionally to understand the broader business impact of legal issues and identify how decisions may affect Product Development, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Technology, and other areas of the organization.
• Monitor relevant regulatory developments and industry standards, assess their potential impact on the company, and recommend appropriate action.
• Support broader corporate compliance, governance, consumer protection, supply-chain due diligence, data protection, cybersecurity, and Demonstrator Policy initiatives.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization while exercising sound judgment, discretion, and appropriate independence.

What Makes You Successful

You’ll likely thrive in this role if you:

• Are intellectually curious and enjoy digging into complex questions where the answer isn’t obvious.
• Know how to find, evaluate, and apply authoritative legal and regulatory sources.
• Ask thoughtful questions, recognize what information is missing, and identify issues others may not initially see.
• Turn research and analysis into clear, practical recommendations, not just information.
• Balance legal risk with business realities and consider how decisions may affect the broader organization.
• Take ownership, manage competing priorities, and know when an issue requires escalation or specialized expertise.
• Communicate complex legal concepts clearly and build strong relationships with legal, technical, and business partners.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Paralegal degree, bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of education and relevant substantive legal experience.
• Demonstrated experience conducting legal or regulatory research, interpreting legal authorities, and applying findings to business situations.
• Demonstrated experience r eviewing, drafting, and redlining contracts, identifying risk, and recommending alternative language.
• Experience with intellectual property matters, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, licensing, or brand protection. Experience researching or reviewing patent claims.
• Strong legal research, analytical, writing, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar issues and collaborate effectively with technical and business teams.
• Ability and willingness to obtain and maintain Notary Public certification and bond.
• Experience with a global organization, consumer-products business, or Direct Sales company is preferred.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism.

Perks of Joining the Stampin’ Up! Family

We believe work should be rewarding, meaningful, and yes, even fun.

Here’s a little of what you can look forward to:

• A wicked-awesome benefits package. Go ahead, compare.
• A Friday dress code every day of the week. Dust off those jeans.
• Extreme crafting experiences. Totally optional, but don’t knock it until you try it.
• Paid personal time off, like a lot of it.
• Tuition assistance to support your growth and development.
• A 401(k) with company match because future-you deserves some love too.
• A culture built on creativity, collaboration, and caring about people first.

Ready to Help Protect What Inspires?

If you’re energized by meaningful work, excited by complex questions, and passionate about helping a global business develop and bring products to market responsibly, we’d love to hear from you.