Business Development Executive - National Security

Company Description

Join us and make YOUR mark on the World!

Are you interested in joining some of the brightest talent in the world to strengthen the United States’ security? Come join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where our employees apply their expertise to create solutions for BIG ideas that make our world a better place.

We are committed to a diverse and equitable workforce with an inclusive culture that values and celebrates the diversity of our people, talents, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This is important for continued success of the Laboratory’s mission.

Pay Range

$168,780  - $214,032  Annually

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting; pay will not be below any applicable local minimum wage.  An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Job Description

We're looking for a Business Development Executive. This position represents LLNL in all aspects of intellectual property management, technology transfer, and industrial partnering via CRADAs (Cooperative Research and Development Agreements). You will work closely with other Business Development Executives, scientific and technical staff, principal investigators, program managers and IP attorneys to promote Laboratory inventions for applications in markets which impact applications relevant to national security. You will take the lead in the creation and maintenance of informational materials related to technology portfolios. This position is in the Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) within the Director’s Office.

This position may offer a hybrid schedule, which includes the flexibility to work from home one or more days per week, after a probationary period. The specifics of the hybrid schedule, including the exact number of days required in the office and virtual work options may vary based on the needs of the team and the organization.

You will

• Evaluate advanced technology and systems concepts in areas/sectors such as energetic materials, space, sensors, communications, and other technologies related to national security applications.
• Develop technology portfolios, marketing, and partnering/licensing strategies for the highest priority cases.
• Represent the Laboratory in its dealing with the commercial sector in both licensing and partnering agreements.
• Engage with non-federal and commercial stakeholders to identify areas for potential new partnerships in the technology portfolios managed.
• Lead the negotiation and preparation of complex partnership and licensing agreements that may require significant technology and business expertise, including developing negotiation strategies and recommending business and other contractual terms and conditions; and providing strategic business advice to Laboratory management, Principal Investigators and others on industrial partnering issues including invention disclosures, patenting, portfolio management, copyright, foreign filing, joint ownership of intellectual property, license royalties, and identification and selection of industrial partners.
• Serve as key IPO representative to the institutional committee charged with evaluating invention disclosures, make recommendations for patenting or other disposition of inventions.
• Manage assigned intellectual property portfolios, in cooperation with Directorates(s), Programs, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee activities of licensees and research partners.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance which requires U.S. citizenship.
•  Bachelor’s degree in the physical sciences or engineering or other related areas, or the equivalent combination of education and industrial experience specific to national security.
• Experience and proficiency in constructing research relationships with and intellectual property licensing to entrepreneurs, commercial firms, and industrial consortia as a member of a technology transfer or business development team.
• Experience and demonstrated skills in managing relationships with the business community on behalf of a university, national laboratory, or other research entity.
• Understanding of current trends and business practices as they relate to technology transfer and experience with materials transfer agreements, inter-institutional agreements and issues involving joint inventorship of inventions and multi-party research collaborations.
• Knowledge of and ex