Baptist Health Innovations is seeking a Senior Innovation Licensing Specialist to help transform clinical, operational, digital, and data-driven innovations into real-world impact.
This newly created senior technology transfer position offers the opportunity to work directly with physicians, researchers, clinicians, and healthcare innovators across one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit health systems. Reporting to the Corporate Vice President for Innovation, you will identify promising innovations throughout the health system, evaluate their commercial potential, develop commercialization strategies, cultivate relationships with industry partners, and lead licensing, co-development, and other commercialization transactions.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced technology transfer or innovation professional who enjoys combining commercial strategy with mission-driven healthcare innovation.
Baptist Health South Florida
Baptist Health is the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in South Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe counties through:
- 12 Hospitals
- More than 29,000 employees
- Over 4,500 physicians
- Approximately 200 outpatient centers, urgent care locations, and physician practices
Recognized by Fortune as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For® for 26 consecutive years, Baptist Health combines a mission-driven culture with a longstanding commitment to innovation, quality, and compassionate patient care.
Why Join Baptist Health Innovations?
You’ll have the opportunity to :
- Commercialize innovations that improve patient care and healthcare delivery
- Collaborate with physicians, researchers, and clinical innovators across one of the nation’s premier healthcare systems
- Help shape and expand a growing innovation and commercialization program
- Enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, retirement programs, tuition assistance, wellness resources, and extensive professional development opportunities
Key Responsibilities
The Senior Innovation Licensing Specialist will lead the full technology transfer lifecycle, including:
- Manage invention disclosures from initial evaluation through commercialization
- Assess patentability, commercial potential, and appropriate intellectual property protection strategies
- Coordinate with outside patent counsel on patent prosecution and portfolio management
- Develop commercialization, market-entry, and partnering strategies
- Identify, cultivate, and engage industry partners capable of advancing innovations toward market adoption
- Structure and negotiate licensing, co-development, and other technology commercialization agreements
- Coordinate legal review and internal stakeholder engagement throughout transactions
- Manage innovation databases, reporting, and portfolio tracking
- Administer active licensing agreements, including royalty collection and compliance
- Develop educational programs related to innovation, intellectual property, commercialization, and entrepreneurship
- Help strengthen innovation policies and best practices across the organization
- Build productive relationships with physicians, researchers, executives, external partners, and innovation stakeholders
Qualifications
Successful candidates will bring many of the following:
- Demonstrated success originating and executing technology licensing or commercialization opportunities
- Experience evaluating inventions and developing commercialization strategies
- Strong knowledge of intellectual property, licensing, technology transfer, and innovation management
- Sound judgment navigating institutional IP, data rights, legal, IT, and procurement considerations
- Credibility working with physicians, researchers, senior administrators, and external business leaders
- Excellent negotiation, communication, relationship-building, and project management skills
- Commercial creativity combined with thoughtful institutional stewardship
Experience in commercializing healthcare technologies, medical devices, digital health solutions, diagnostics, software, AI, or data-driven innovations is highly desirable.
Salary
The approved base salary range for this position is $137,846–$179,000, with final compensation determined based on experience, qualifications, and internal equity.
Work Location
This is a hybrid position based in South Florida, with meaningful in-person collaboration expected, particularly during onboarding and as relationships are built across the health system.
How to Apply
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply using the link below.
The application takes approximately 7–10 minutes to complete. A résumé is required, and a cover letter is optional.
UI Collab, in partnership with Gardner Innovation Search Partners, works with leading organizations across academia, industry, and government to recruit talent for roles that support research, innovation, and university–industry collaboration.
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