Life Sciences Project Managers

Monday – Friday

An Assistant Director of Commercialization’s role at the Technology Licensing Office (TLO) at the University of Utah is to develop relationships with University faculty to promote innovation that has strong commercial potential with the ultimate goal of monetizing these innovations through licensing transactions, which generate downstream revenue through a variety of contractual obligations. The majority of their time will be spent meeting with faculty and developing relationships with potential licensees. Education of TLO’s mission is a core theme of faculty interactions, the intent of which is to produce higher quality, curated invention disclosures across all University colleges, institutes, and departments. Based on their domain expertise and industry relationships, Assistant Director of Commercialization also provide awareness to faculty of technology solutions that are most valued by global markets to influence their research efforts.

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The Assistant Director of Commercialization in this position will be responsible for:

On a day-to-day basis, the Assistant Director of Commercialization will actively support and manage a portfolio in the medical device and research tool space. Portfolio management involves a variety of activities including but not limited to:

Faculty engagement:

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

II: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 4 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 2 years of directly related work experience.

III: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

IV: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.

V: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.

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