Description

Evaluates licensing opportunities, negotiates contracts, and manages relationships with external partners to develop technology commercialization at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Essential Functions: 

Identifies, solicits, and manages novel technologies for potential licensing opportunities, ensuring compliance with licensing regulations and intellectual property protection.
Collaborates to draft and negotiate licensing and optioning agreements, translating complex scientific language into clear and understandable terms appropriate for business negotiation.
Builds and maintains a network of local, regional, national and international business partners.
Prepares technical summaries, conference presentations, and reports on novel technologies and licensing activities.
Establishes and maintains policies and procedures for evaluating and marketing technology. Develops and implements annual and technology-specific strategies.
Advises and educates NCH inventors regarding the commercialization of research and technology.

Hybrid Position Available - Ideally this means the candidate would come into the office at least once a week.  It is required that the employee live within the state of Ohio.

Requirements

Skills: 

Exercises excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal skills.
Through understand of copyright law and software/business method patents and understanding of Federal rights in data and software (i.e. the Bayh-Dole Act).
Ability to evaluate new technologies and work with faculty and staff to develop a commercialization pathway. Substantial knowledge of the application of basic and applied research to new product development, commercialization, and manufacturing; experience with software production management, marketing or sales, preferred.

Experience: 

Two years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience, preferred.
Work experience in commercializing computer software and computer science related technology as it applies to health care/life science, preferred.
Broad technology-based experience in IT hardware and software, including experience in software product development, preferred.
Previous technology transfer or business development experience, preferred.
Experience with contracts such as material transfer, inter-institutional and non-disclosure agreements.

Physical Requirements:

OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Squat/kneel

FREQUENTLY: Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Lifting / Carrying: 11-20 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Standing, Walking

CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Flexing/extending of neck, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Reaching above shoulder, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near, Sitting