Intellectual Property Manager

Overview

This role supports the Medical Division’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio, including managing the full patent lifecycle and partnering with R&D teams across new product development. The position includes coordinating IP risk assessments, working with patent counsel and outside counsel, and improving IP processes and portfolio reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full patent lifecycle, including invention intake, preliminary patentability assessments, patent application development, prosecution support, and maintenance and annuity decisions.
• Lead invention review boards; evaluate new inventions and guide patent filing decisions in partnership with R&D stakeholders and IP counsel.
• Develop patent portfolio strategies and manage related IP budgets aligned to product development and business priorities.
• Coordinate with outside counsel to prepare, file, and prosecute U.S. and international patent applications, including responses to patent office actions.
• Conduct patentability, prior-art, state-of-the-art, and competitive patent analyses to support product development and IP strategy.
• Evaluate invention commercialization plans, patent utilization, and potential offensive and defensive value to inform international filing, maintenance, and abandonment decisions.
• Coordinate IP risk assessments, including freedom-to-operate analyses for new product launches.
• Support IP activities related to acquisitions, licensing, patent monetization, assertions, and defenses.
• Improve IP processes and systems, portfolio metrics, stakeholder reporting, and training to increase efficiency and provide actionable insights to R&D and IP leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience in engineering, intellectual property (IP), patent management, patent prosecution, or related technical and IP functions, including demonstrated experience managing IP activities.
• Demonstrated experience in patent portfolio management, including invention disclosures, patentability assessments, patent searches, prior-art analysis, and competitive landscape and monitoring.
• Experience collaborating with R&D, engineering teams, patent counsel, or external legal partners to evaluate inventions, support patent filings, and manage IP matters.
• Experience managing multiple IP matters, patent portfolios, or technology development projects simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience in the medical device, medical technology (MedTech), healthcare technology, or related regulated product development industry.
• Experience managing complex patent portfolios, including invention intake, patent application development, prosecution support, portfolio maintenance, and patent filing strategies.
• Knowledge of U.S. and international patent filing and prosecution procedures, including USPTO processes, office action responses, and international patent protection strategies.
• Experience conducting or coordinating freedom-to-operate (FTO) assessments, patent landscape analyses, competitive patent intelligence, and IP risk assessments.
• Experience partnering with R&D and product development teams to identify patentable innovations, evaluate technical inventions, and support new product development (NPD).
• Experience developing patent portfolio strategies; evaluating patent value; and supporting patent maintenance, abandonment, licensing, or acquisition decisions.
• Experience managing high-volume patent portfolios, multiple concurrent product development projects, and competing IP priorities.
• Registration to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as a Patent Agent or Patent Attorney.
• Experience using patent management systems, patent search databases, portfolio reporting tools, or IP analytics to monitor portfolio performance and improve operational efficiency.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Ranges (United States of America)

• USN: $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual
• US5: $123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual
• US10: $129,800 - $216,400 USD Annual
• US15: $135,700 - $226,200 USD Annual
• US20: $141,600 - $236,000 USD Annual
• US30: $153,400 - $255,700 USD Annual

Health Benefits

Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program.

Financial Benefits

Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

Location & Work Arrangement

• Hybrid position based in Cary, Illinois, with an expectation of working onsite 2–3 days per week and flexibility to work from home on other days based on business needs.
• Fully remote candidates will be considered in time zones within 1 hour of Central time.

Additional Information

• Posted Date: 10/26/2026 (posted for a minimum of 3 days).
• Depending on customer requirements, employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.