Senior Technology Manager

Duties And Responsibilities
Work closely with other Techlink staff to achieve technology transfer successes for the sponsoring organizations, particularly DoD and VA, focusing primarily on facilitating technology transfer partnerships involving patent license agreements and cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs). Maintain a consistent pipeline of technology opportunity projects across the stages of IP evaluation, written material development, prospect identification, and outreach. Evaluate DoD, VA, and/or MSU intellectual property (IP) to identify technologies with industry partnership potential through a regular and systematic review of newly issued patents, published patent applications, and other invention-related information and assets. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of specific DoD, VA, or MSU intellectual portfolio(s) as assigned. Produce business case-focused, written materials around identified opportunities to support the facilitation of industry partnerships from reviewing invention-related information and through conducting interviews with inventors. Identify high-quality, prospective industry partners on identified opportunities through market research and other tactics. Engage prospects with identified opportunities through direct outreach via email, phone, and other means. Maintain a consistent pipeline of technology transfer agreements across the stages of facilitation from initial evaluation by prospects through application development and ultimate agreement execution. Support prospect evaluation of partnership opportunities, including mediating discussions with inventors and facilitation of supporting agreements as needed to enable the transfer of materials, prototypes, or other information/assets. Provide professional customer service and facilitation of license agreements, CRADAs, and other technology transfer related agreements. Support and advise prospects toward the development of license applications and other required agreement documentation in line with federal technology transfer regulations, legal requirements, and sponsor expectations. Travel regularly to visit DOD laboratories and/or VA Medical Centers and to attend conferences, tradeshows, etc as required or needed in support of maintaining active technology opportunities and partnership pipelines.

Physical Demands
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.