Senior Director, Intellectual Property
United States
Full Time
4 days ago
$270,000 - $314,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
LeadershipMentoringCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Develop and implement strategies to protect Crinetics’ intellectual property
- Manage patent prosecution in-house and by outside counsel
- Identify commercially valuable IP in collaboration with teams
- Manage prosecution of high-quality patent applications
- Conduct and manage freedom-to-operate and patentability analyses
- Review and assist in negotiating IP provisions of agreements
- Provide coaching and mentoring to direct reports
Requirements
- Licensed US attorney with USPTO registration number
- Minimum 13 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life science industry
- Minimum 5 years of experience as an attorney at a law firm
- Minimum 3 years as in-house IP counsel or patent counsel
- Minimum 10 years in a supervisory/leadership role
- Graduate degree in chemistry, preferably organic chemistry
- Strong experience with foreign and US patent prosecution
- Familiarity with IP management systems
Benefits
- Health insurance plans (medical, dental, vision)
- Discretionary annual target bonus
- Stock options
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- 401k match
- 20 days of PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Winter company shutdown