Career Opportunities

Manager, Alliance Management PICI 

The Manager, Alliance Management PICI, located at Weill Cornell Medicine, will join the Center for Technology Licensing’s business development and licensing team in New York City to work closely with faculty, students and staff participating in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Weill Cornell Medicine (PICI@WCM) alliance.

The Manager, Alliance Management has primary responsibility for managing complex intellectual property and technology transfer tasks for the PICI@WCM alliance, including being a key liaison between Enterprise Innovation, PICI@WCM’s members and their research teams, other academic institutions involved in the PICI consortium, and PICI. Other duties include ensuring compliance with all intellectual property aspects of the alliance agreement and negotiating permitted third-party agreements to support the PICI@WCM researchers’ laboratories. This is a fixed-term position based on PICI funding.

Well-qualified candidates for this opportunity will be experienced professionals, able to manage and solve problems in challenging situations with support from senior team members and to escalate matters as necessary to the Senior Managing Director with full transparency.

Key Responsibilities:

As the primary liaison managing all intellectual property matters related to the PICI@WCM consortium, the successful candidate will:

• Provide education, guidance, and advice to all faculty and trainees considering participation or actively participating in PICI@WCM funded programs on the terms and obligations of PICI participation, including oversight of all onboarding activities
• Review all future external party funding/collaboration, material transfer, and foundation grant agreements for active PICI@WCM participants
• Participate in internal PICI@WCM research and clinical development meetings with member researchers and project members to help identify new intellectual property being developed, keep abreast of arising research, and fulfill contractual obligations to PICI
• Track and fulfill all reporting and disclosure obligations to PICI and document related action items and approvals
• Liaise regularly with other internal WCM teams, including OSRA, General Counsel, and Research Compliance, to ensure compliance with PICI terms and conditions
• Develop standard operating procedures for onboarding, tracking, and managing the PICI@WCM relationship across all internal WCM teams to enable “real-time monitoring” of the PICI@WCM relationship
• Deeply integrate with the Enterprise Innovation Business Development & Licensing team and communicate on all matters pertaining to IP strategy and commercialization of PICI-related intellectual property to seamlessly manage and execute agreed upon strategies and action items
• Lead engagement with PICI around matters pertaining to intellectual property and commercialization, including preparing agendas and meeting minutes, coordinating and scheduling steering committee and ad-hoc meetings, and documenting actions and approvals

Application: 

Send us a cover letter and resume explaining how your experience and qualifications match the position requirements. Your letter is an important component of your application, and it should highlight experience and skills that demonstrate your ability to manage complex research alliances. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

When evaluating your candidacy, we will look for evidence of the following:

• Master’s or other graduate degree in life sciences, molecular biology, biochemistry, protein chemistry, cell biology or a healthcare field
• 3-5 years of experience successfully managing early-stage research alliances, especially large and complex endeavors
• Proven ability to interact with a wide range of people in a professional and ethical manner, including faculty, students, business development professionals, and lawyers with an emphasis on conflict identification and resolution and navigating challenging conversations with transparency and a solution-oriented mindset
• Excellent communication skills--listening, presenting, and writing–with proven sensitivity and ability to manage confidential information
• Excellent organizational and project management skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand intellectual property transactions, including collaboration agreements, funding agreements, material transfer agreements, and to engage in creative negotiation
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and complex organization with multiple stakeholders, align interests between stakeholders, and influence across company lines
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing

Additionally, we would like to see evidence of:

• Forward-thinking perspective and a record of strategic team collaborations
• Deep understanding of complex intellectual property transactions and ability to deftly identify and resolve contractual conflicts 
• Proven ability to align stakeholders 
• Functional understanding of intellectual property and business development strategies for discovery-stage healthcare innovations, particularly in the oncology/immuno-oncology field

Submit your application here on the Cornell University HR website. 

Operations and Project Coordinator  

The Operations and Project Coordinator will support key programs and projects run by Weill Cornell Medicine Enterprise Innovation. 

 Job Responsibilities

• Manages logistics and arrangements for education programs and community events; collects and records impact metrics.
• Fosters relationships with internal and external collaborators to ensure efficient execution of education programs and community events.
• Tracks invoices and works with the finance team to allocate and/or recover expenses.
• Provides overall administrative support to the team as needed, including scheduling with various internal and external Enterprise Innovation stakeholders.
• Develops procedures, systems, and databases that support Weill Cornell’s commercialization activities.
• Regularly circulates relevant information to internal stakeholders and maintains administrative oversight and management of calls-for-proposals and other grant submission and review activity.
• Organizes, expands and keeps up-to-date resources focused on the healthcare industry and market research, regulatory policies, reimbursement/payer programs, life sciences startup formation & entrepreneurship.
• Contributes to the creation of materials that engage stakeholders and collaborators, including emails, letters, flyers, and other collateral materials.
• Assists with social media presence across various media channels.
• Interacts with industry contacts and investors in support of deepening and expanding the team’s relationships and commercialization activities
• Performs other related duties as assigned.