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Manage complex projects and cross-functional initiatives that support the release to market of new consumer products. Provide leadership, direction, and focus to drive internal cross-functional teams to execute on plans and deliver amazing products on budget and on time.▪ Manage complete project lifecycle from product conception, through manufacturing, to Go-to-Market. Support new product initiatives by collecting and vetting requirements, and defining project scope.▪ Develop and manage project schedule with key milestones, including prototype builds, product certifications, packaging development, internal beta, press events, and launch. ▪ Evaluate, obtain, and manage resources for project. Help provide resolution to resource challenges, such as acquiring additional resources, coordinating work between internal and external teams, and helping to resolve internal conflicts.▪ Engage and manage relationship with suppliers during NPI stage; track their deliverables.▪ Oversee collaboration between electrical, mechanical, and software teams; track project-level deliverables and drive them to completion; balance resource allocation between engineering activities. Manage day-to-day progress by helping team members develop resolutions or workarounds to critical path items. ▪ Identify risks, and work with team to develop and execute risk management plans.▪ Engage project stakeholders and senior management by reporting on project status and risks, and receive feedback and direction. Facilitate weekly status meetings with functional team leads, and providing regular status reports.▪ Manage and control project costs to stay within budget. Work collaboratively with the internal Operations team to identify and engage suppliers of critical components, build partnerships with them, and assess cost reduction opportunities.▪ Identify inefficiencies and capacities in business processes and models, and develop alternatives to improve collaboration.

Manage the patent assessment and valuation process for inbound, outbound and targeted patent deals. Coordinate the efforts of internal analysts and external consultants in support of patent evaluation and acquisition, patent portfolio management and patent licensing activities. Manage integration process for funded acquisition into monetization programs.• Represent the Patent Valuation Team within Acquisitions to target groups; act as liaison to, and manage relationships with cross-functional teams. Work with internal stakeholders to ensure sufficient input into the business case of a deal. Align valuation process with acquisition goals of engineering, sales, marketing, and the investors relations teams; effectively communicate process and valuation analysis to all stakeholders, and implement changes received from feedback, as necessary.• Manage special projects by defining objectives, gathering requirements, determining the scope, timeline and milestones, managing resource allocation, including effectively managing vendors and contractors, and defining roles and responsibilities.• Plan, scope, and execute integration efforts for acquired patents into monetization programs. Collaborate with IT, and other internal partners, to improve valuation cycle time, process, output, and tools.• Track and report on acquisition data and metrics; create reporting for dashboards and presentations to executive leadership. Provide regular updates to stakeholders regarding status of projects and workflow, including information on problems or potential delays.• Collaborate with the Change Management team to develop best practices for capturing and sharing the information collected during the valuation stage.