Senior Technology Manager

🇺🇸 Bozeman, Montana 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $105K - $125K 💻 Research 🗓️ November 7th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Montana State University is hiring a Senior Technology Manager. The role works in the university's Technology Transfer Office, reporting to its director, and helps MSU researchers identify, protect, and license intellectual property to industry so that research reaches real-world use. The manager works with a high degree of autonomy, particularly on engineering, physics, and software technologies.

Highlights

Identify and evaluate MSU technologies with commercial and licensing potential, soliciting IP disclosures from researchers and working with the TTO IP Manager to meet patent filing and prosecution deadlines.
Evaluate patent landscapes, competitive IP, and technology market opportunities, and select the most promising technologies to license to companies.
Create one-page technical marketing summaries and research high-potential industry customers, then reach out by email, phone, LinkedIn, and conferences to present licensing and research collaboration opportunities.
Help MSU startups and licensee companies with customer discovery, market research, and technology commercialization plans.
Draft, negotiate, and track Licensing, Research Collaboration, Inter-Institutional, and Sponsored Research Agreements, communicating directly with federal, state, and private sponsors.
Maintain TTO database records and assist with TTO communications, including website and newsletter materials, with occasional travel to industry conferences and meetings with federal sponsors.
Hold a master's degree in engineering, physics, or a relevant field, or equivalent education and experience, with at least five years in a technology-driven company, not counting time in academia, research institutes, or nonprofits.
Show an understanding of intellectual property, particularly patents, and experience moving technology from R&D to the marketplace.
A PhD, ten years in a technology-driven company, deeptech startup experience, IP licensing and contract negotiation expertise, and knowledge of the Bayh-Dole Act and software technologies are preferred.
Pay range of $105,000 to $125,000 annually, working on site in Bozeman, Montana.