The Director of Contracts and Intellectual Property is a strategic leadership role responsible for managing and optimizing the intellectual property assets and other legal aspects of the university’s technology transfer and commercialization activities. The position is responsible for managing intellectual property related agreements and patent management functions, ensuring professional support of all licensing, technology transfer, and commercialization activities; and directing all compliance matters, internal and external, including federal, state, and non-profit obligations tied to intellectual property. This role involves overseeing day-to-day IP-asset protection and management operations, implementing best practices, and ensuring that agreement negotiation support and intellectual property protection activities align with organizational strategic goals, compliance management and financial decisions. The director will play a key role in driving efficiency, effectiveness, and innovation in the successful commercialization of intellectual property and research advancements.
The K-State Research Foundation, known as KSURF, is committed to collaborating with university, industry and communities to facilitate technology commercialization.
As a service unit and partner, we are dedicated to collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to identify common goals and shared initiatives for the benefit of K-State, communities and the state of Kansas.
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Immediately and continues until position is filled.
$115,084 - $189,892 / year
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