About Arc Institute

The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution that conducts curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.

While the prevailing university research model has yielded many tremendous successes, we believe in the importance of institutional experimentation as a way to make progress. These include:

• Funding: Arc will fully fund Core Investigator's (PI's) research groups, liberating scientists from the typical constraints of project-based external grants.
• Technology: Biomedical research has become increasingly dependent on complex tooling. Arc Technology Centers develop, optimize and deploy rapidly advancing experimental and computational technologies in collaboration with Core Investigators.
• Support: Arc aims to provide first-class support—operationally, financially and scientifically—that will enable scientists to pursue long-term high risk, high reward research that can meaningfully advance progress in disease cures, including neurodegeneration, cancer, and immune dysfunction.
• Culture: We believe that culture matters enormously in science and that excellence is difficult to sustain. We aim to create a culture that is focused on scientific curiosity, a deep commitment to truth, broad ambition, and selfless collaboration.

With $650M in expected funding, the vision in the first 2-3 years is to grow to a team of roughly 150 team members, with plans for further significant growth over the decade ahead.

In this position you will:

• Develop and maintain a broad understanding of the Institute's research activities.
• Collaborate closely with Institute scientists to identify potentially patentable inventions and proactively guide the invention disclosure process.
• Own the strategic decision on which disclosures to file across the Institute, taking into account the existing patent landscape as well as potential commercial interest in the IP.
• Select and manage external IP counsel who will draft and prosecute patent applications.
• Design and maintain a global patent filing strategy reflecting legal options and market conditions in the relevant jurisdictions.
• Assist with negotiating intellectual property agreements with third parties, including out-licensing.
• Collaborate with IP counsel at our partner universities - Stanford, UC Berkeley and UCSF - to successfully navigate joint IP filing and licensing.
• Educate Institute scientists on intellectual property law and Institute policies and procedures relating to intellectual property.
• Present on intellectual property matters to Institute leadership and other audiences.
• Manage the Institute's global patent filing budget.
• Handle occasional trademark, copyright, and trade secrets matters.