Principal Ip Advisor, Strategic Initiatives

1 week ago

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Communitech Technology Association Full time

Communitech helps founders start, grow and succeed
Full Time Contract position with benefits until March 31, 2026

At Communitech, we're all about the "F" word. Founders.


We were built by tech founders who saw the need for a community of support to help ensure the future prosperity of Canada.

No other innovation hub can say that, which is pretty cool.

Established in 1997, our mission has been our guide ever since.

We're here to support the founder at every stage of their journey, providing accelerated opportunities to access talent, capital and sales.


As Canada's tech supercharger, we help founders:

  • Hire and retain the smartest, brightest and most experienced people
  • Access growth financing at every stage
  • Sell to the biggest customers at home and around the world
  • Connect the right people at the right time
  • peers who have been there before, coaches who can guide them through the difficult spots and partners from all over Canada
Communitech is a hybrid organization headquartered in downtown Kitchener, Ontario.

In-person connection is important to us, so we get together regularly for special events, collaboration days and team socials, and we ask our team members to work onsite from our Kitchener facility 2 days/week.

We are a flexible, people first environment and want to allow our people to make decisions and choices about where they work to support work life balance within clear guidelines.


What you'll be doing:

We are seeking a highly experienced and knowledgeable Senior IP Advisor for the ElevateIP program.

This federally funded initiative aims to ensure equitable access to IP protection awareness, IP strategy mentorship, and funding for the development and implementation of IP strategies.

As the IP Director, you will be responsible for providing the intellectual property expertise necessary for the successful development and implementation of the program.

The IP Director's expertise and deep knowledge of IP will be crucial for this role which requires both strategic and hands-on responsibilities including:

  • Working directly with ElevateIP staff, companies, clients, and other stakeholders to provide IP advice and expertise;-
  • In collaboration with project partners, ensuring that services offered have high client utilization and providing routine data, metric reporting, key performance indicators, and any other relevant statistics that support the value of the program;
  • Providing oversight of the technical IP work for the program including the implementation of the IP building blocks (intake questions, intake assessment, IP benchmarking);
  • Supporting program communications, presentations to ensure clear client pathways;
  • Collaborating with project partners to reduce duplication of services, shift to collaborative service offerings, and ensure a seamless client experience;
  • Ensuring collaboration on ecosystem data related to clients and potential clients, and their IP needs and IP assessments;
  • Establishing an effective and transparent referral system with other IP support programs in the ecosystem;
  • Collaborating with partners to plan and execute networking and information sharing opportunities to engage clients and companies and reduce confusion on IP services;
  • Building relationships and working collaboratively with other groups and partners within the IP ecosystem;
  • Promoting an environment and culture of service excellence which respects diversity, encourages all employees to work together to achieve results and contribute to a healthy, rewarding, and productive working environment where personal and team accountability are key to meeting ElevateIP's mandates; and
  • Performing other duties as assigned.

Qualifications- Postsecondary degree in engineering, science, or a field relevant to intellectual property;- Demonstrated IP experience and knowledge that could include a law degree (3-5 year IP lawyer in law firm or in-house), or similar accreditation, or 5+ years hands-on experience (i.e., patent agent, in-house IP executive, or IP consultant servicing clients with complex IP needs);- Demonstrated hands on experience in advising companies and other business stakeholders on IP rights;- Experience and proficiency developing and implementing IP strategy for a scaling or scaled business;- Experience supporting organizations to identify, protect, manage, and commercialize their IP;- Experience across a range of IP rights and data (i.e., experience in IP strategy, US / Can laws, patents, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets) through in house or industry experience is preferred;- Experience leading and executing on projects or programs from concept to delivery, as well as ongoing operations;- Previous involvement with start-up, scaleup or activities/organizations providing both strategic and hands-on support for IP needs or advice;- Strong communication and stakeholder relationship management skills;- Strong analytical, strategic thinking and conceptualizing skill

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