Agreements and Partnerships Success Lead

MITRE; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE seeks an Agreements and Partnerships Success Lead within the Technology Transition and Partnership Office. This role interfaces with MITRE divisions to accelerate IP licensing, manage NDAs, MOUs, and licensing agreements, and build university partnerships.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience coordinating multiple organizations, strong legal and business judgment, and can operate onsite multiple days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience executing corporate agreements such as NDAs, MOUs, or other collaborative agreements.
• Ability to coordinate multiple contributing organizations from first contact to signature through success management.
• Sound judgment in legal, contracts, and business terms; know when to escalate to senior leadership.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, including tracked changes, document comparison and redlining.
• Experience using contracts, licensing, and customer relationship management software/databases.
• Exceptional verbal, writing, and collaboration skills; relation-builder and detail-oriented.
• Minimum of 4 days on-site per week.

Responsibilities

• Agreement Intake and Triage: serve as first contact for external parties and MITRE colleagues for NDAs, MOUs, licensing agreements, and more; triage by type, risk and urgency.
• Agreement Review and Mark-up: review against templates, prepare redlines, manage version control and communications; assist with nonstandard terms; use DocuSign for execution.
• Success Management: track post-agreement milestones, renewals, and notifications; manage communications to ensure compliance and public good; develop training materials.
• University Partnerships: collaborate with partners to strengthen MITRE relationships with universities and explore co-research or internship opportunities.

Skills

NDA Coordination

MOU Coordination

Contract Review

Redlining

Document Management

Stakeholder Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

PhD

Tools

MS Word

DocuSign

CRM Software

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies - collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose - and help shape the future.

Department Summary

MITRE is seeking an Agreements and Partnerships Success Lead within the Technology Transition and Partnership Office. Our office serves as a front door to industry engagement for MITRE. As the technological and operational environment around the globe rapidly changes, MITRE is focused on turning innovation into mission-ready capability. You’ll be part of the team that rapidly accelerates IP licensing and executes agreements and partnerships with industry, academia, and other nonprofit institutions and associations.

Roles & Responsibilities

This position offers the ability to take a key role in supporting our Technology Transition and Partnerships Office. This individual contributor position will create impact across all of MITRE (MITRE Public Sector, MITRE National Security, and MITRE Technology and Engineering) and will have frequent and in-depth engagement with external organizations such as industry, academia, and other nonprofit institutions and associations.

• Agreement Intake and Triage: Serve as the first point of contact for external parties and MITRE colleagues for non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and collaborative teaming agreements such as university partnership agreements, co-research agreements, Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), licensing agreements, and more; triage agreements by type, risk, and urgency.
• Agreement Review and Mark-up: Review agreements against standard templates and approved language library, which may include the use of AI or other tools; prepare redlines; manage document version control and communications with external parties as well as MITRE business partners in legal, contracts, subcontracts, and procurement as needed to assist with nonstandard terms; and manage agreement execution using e-signature tools such as DocuSign.
• Success Management: Support MITRE staff requests to understand agreement processes and existing agreement availability; maintain the agreements repository. Support post-agreement follow-up by tracking agreements for key dates and terms and conditions, such as renewals, expiration, deliverables, reporting, and mandatory notifications; manage communications with internal and external parties to confirm public good and compliance outcomes; develop or enhance training materials; and support internal and external communications announcements related to IP licensing and partnerships.
• University Partnerships: Collaborate with MITRE business partners and technical resources to track, strengthen, and deepen MITRE’s relationships with universities through a shared engagement model, which may include developing co-research and innovation opportunities, intern and early career talent pipelines, training and continuing education for MITRE staff, facility and infrastructure use, or other focused opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully executing corporate agreements, such as NDAs, MOUs, or other collaborative agreements, requiring coordination of multiple contributing organizations from first contact to signature through success management.
• Sound judgment in legal, contracts, and business terms; understanding of when an issue requires senior leadership escalation.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Word, including tracked changes, document comparison, and redlining.
• Experience using contracts, licensing, and customer relationship management software/databases.
• Exceptional verbal, writing, and collaboration skills; relationship builder and detail-oriented.
• Strong cross-functional and multitasking abilities; enjoys meeting the needs of internal and external customers with a passion for public sector impact.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government-issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S. Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• Experience in IP Tech Transfer licensing/commercialization of technology, with certification.
• Skilled in the use of AI tools for document comparison.
• Proficiency with dashboards using tools like Tableau or Power BI.
• Familiarity with iEdison or other government reporting and compliance tools.
• Competence in SharePoint development skills.
• Experience in government, as a government contractor, or at a large nonprofit research institution supporting contracts, subcontracts, legal, technology transition, or a partnerships office.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Salary compensation range and midpoint:

$132,000 - $165,000 - $198,000 Annual

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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