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As a Senior Commercialization Leader at JAX, you will play a pivotal role in evaluating technologies and intellectual property for commercial potential. Your focus will be on licensing through technology transfer activities. Collaborating closely with the Vice President of the JAX Rare Disease Translational Center (RDTC), JAX faculty, and staff, you'll develop innovative strategies to market and license intellectual property and new products for commercialization.

This role is remote with travel as needed

Key Responsibilities (What you contribute)

• Commercialization Leadership: You will constantly evaluate JAX technologies and intellectual property for commercial potential and licensing through technology transfer activities
• Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with the Vice President of the JAX Rare Disease Translational Center, JAX faculty and staff to develop innovative strategies to market and license intellectual property and new products for commercialization. In additional to key internal JAX leadership (PI, Legal, CFO), you will draft and oversee the agreement process
• Communication: You'll be responsible for consolidating complex technical data for the Rare Disease Translational Center's pre-clinical drug discovery initiatives. Your role involves analyzing commercial viability, outlining value propositions, and elucidating the commercial impact to prospective licensing partners. This includes engaging with biotech and pharmaceutical firms, investment groups, and senior leadership within JAX
• Source and Evaluate: Your role involves identifying prospective commercial partners for JAX's intellectual property assets. This includes assessing startup ventures and investment opportunities aimed at advancing translational research.
• Execute Agreements: You will collaborate with legal team to draft term sheets for exclusive license agreements, sponsored research agreements and collaborative agreements and work closely with legal team to negotiate and execute with patient foundations and biotech/pharma companies
• Lead Negotiations: Your responsibility includes spearheading negotiations for agreements with start-ups, patient foundations, and biotech/pharma companies to optimize the value of JAX's intellectual property
• Intellectual Property Management: Collaborating with the Chief Intellectual Property Officer, you'll prioritize JAX technology and intellectual property originating from the RDTC and faculty across diverse scientific domains for potential commercialization. You will be intimately involved in discussions regarding key products as well as venture disclosures.
• People Leadership: Your role involves engaging with, overseeing, and coaching junior business development and licensing professionals to adeptly navigate all aspects of technology transfer and licensing. Additionally, you'll guide them in adopting standard business processes for streamlined operations and workflow efficiency
• External Outreach: Your responsibility includes crafting materials for the Corporate Development Office's representation at external events, conferences, corporate and government affairs, as well as for internal forums and scientific retreats

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (What you're good at)

• Essential experience in negotiating contracts and legal agreements (e.g., NDA/CDA, MSA, SRA, In-/Out-licensing) for technology commercialization
• Ten (10) years experience in Academic (technology transfer) and/or commercial biotech/pharma sections (business development & licensing)
• Advanced knowledge in intellectual property law and comprehension of biomedical research and technology transfer practices
• Bonus if experienced in drug development processes, FDA regulations, start-up ventures, medical devices, or software applications
• Proven track record in successfully negotiating and executing complex deals concerning intellectual property assets, with the capability to provide deal summaries
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, with a PMP certificate considered advantageous
• Capability to comprehend and evaluate early-stage scientific concepts
• Comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively
• Advanced knowledge in fostering and maintaining long-term relationships with business partners and faculty inventors, with a talent for strategically connecting to facilitate technology transfer opportunities
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, particularly MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Expected availability for regular travel as needed, approximately 30% (This is a remote position, with a preference for residence in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic regions, although not mandatory)

Pay Range: $154,596 - $272,217 based on years of prior related experience

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About JAX:

The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California), Japan and China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.

Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. For more information, please visit www.jax.org .

EEO Statement:

The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.