Intellectual Property Coordinator

**Company Overview**:
For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you

**The Role**:
As a public company, MDA’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio and data assets are highly visible and valuable assets. We rely on many forms of intellectual property such as trade secrets, trademarks, patents, copyrights, industrial designs, and domain names to establish and maintain the Company’s competitive position. In a rapidly expanding and increasingly competitive space economy, we are placing greater focus and energy on our approaches to capture, protect, exploit and disseminate our IP.

To support this effort, the Intellectual Property Coordinator will be responsible for facilitating and managing the business area’s activities associated with intellectual property identification, capture, protection, and management.

**Job Duties/Responsibilities**:

- **Develop and maintain overall IP identification, capture and protection plans including**
- Overall schedule of planned activities which reflects business needs to disclose IP (e.g. proposal submission, share IP for collaboration with partners, sell new IP, or public disclosure of IP.)
- On-going staffing requirements from Engineering and other functional departments for IP identification, capture, and protection activities**.**
- Ensure adherence to internal IP identification, disclosure, steering, and protection practices and procedures.
- AOP budget preparation and tracking of IP related expenditures
- **Coordinate and facilitate IP identification Efforts**:

- Periodic and annual reviews of current product and system developments for timely identification of potential created inventions**.**
- **Manage the IP Portfolio**
- Compile documents and Invention Disclosure Forms (IDFs) for IP Steering Committee Disposition
- Track Business Area Intellectual Property Key Performance Indices (KPIs)
- Manage, organize and update relevant data in Business Area IP Catalog
- **Coordinate Periodic IP Training**
- **Manage Business Area IP Incentive Awards Process**

**Education and Required Skills**:

- Bachelor of applied Science in Engineering, Bachelor of Science, or the equivalent or Minimum IP or legal diploma/degree
- Minimum 5 to 8 years of experience in relevant technical and/or legal/IP business fields
- Patent Portfolio Coordination, Project Management, or Project Engineering experience, including planning and leading small teams on short duration projects.
- At least one of:

- Self-motivated with good interpersonal skills; team player with demonstrated high level of integrity
- Works well in a very dynamic environment where some of the parameters are unknown, some change regularly, and much is new
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.