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Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees. 

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world. 

As Vice President, Business Development & Technology for Via, you will lead strategic growth initiatives at the intersection of intellectual property, emerging technologies, and global licensing programs. This executive will be responsible for identifying, evaluating, and developing new patent pool opportunities, particularly in semiconductors (e.g., DRAM, NAND, HBM), artificial intelligence, and data center infrastructure.

The role combines external market engagement, technical evaluation, and commercial strategy, and will work closely with licensing, legal, and executive leadership to expand Via’s portfolio of programs and strengthen its position as a leading patent pool administrator. This hybrid role is required to work in the San Francisco office three days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Development & Program Creation

• Identify and prioritize new patent pool opportunities in high-growth technology sectors, including AI, memory, data center, and connectivity.
• Develop and execute business cases for new licensing programs, including market sizing, stakeholder mapping, and revenue modeling.
• Lead outreach to prospective licensors (patent owners) and strategic partners to build program participation and alignment.
• Structure and negotiate framework terms for new pools in collaboration with legal and executive leadership.

2. Technology Strategy & Analysis

• Evaluate emerging technologies and standards to determine “pool-worthiness,” including fragmentation of patent ownership, licensing inefficiencies, and industry adoption.
• Oversee technical diligence processes, including patent landscape analysis and coordination with external experts.
• Translate complex technical concepts into commercially actionable licensing strategies.
• Stay ahead of trends in AI (including LLMs), semiconductor architectures (e.g., HBM vs. DDR), and data center systems.

3. Industry Engagement & Thought Leadership

• Represent Via Licensing at industry conferences, standards bodies, and executive forums.
• Build and maintain relationships with leading technology companies, patent holders, and ecosystem players.
• Position Via as a thought leader in collaborative licensing, including AI-assisted licensing models and next-generation pool structures.

4. Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with licensing, legal, finance, and operations teams to ensure seamless transition from program concept to launch.
• Support ongoing programs by providing strategic input on market evolution and expansion opportunities.
• Collaborate with AI/data teams to integrate advanced tools into patent evaluation, portfolio analysis, and royalty allocation processes.

5. Strategic Planning

• Contribute to Via’s overall strategic roadmap, including expansion into new verticals and innovation in licensing models.
• Evaluate competitive landscape, including alternative licensing platforms and bilateral licensing strategies.
• Drive long-term growth initiatives aligned with industry shifts toward AI-driven infrastructure and compute-intensive applications.

Qualifications

Required

• 12+ years of experience in business development, licensing, technology strategy, or related fields.
• Deep familiarity with intellectual property, patent licensing, and/or patent pools (e.g., SEPs, FRAND frameworks).
• Strong technical understanding of at least one of the following domains:
  • Semiconductor technologies (DRAM, NAND, HBM, controllers)
  • Artificial intelligence / machine learning systems
  • Data center architecture and infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to build partnerships and lead complex, multi-stakeholder negotiations.
• Executive presence with strong communication and presentation skills.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in engineering, computer science, or related technical field; JD or MBA is a plus.
• Experience working with standards bodies (e.g., JEDEC, ONFI, IEEE) or industry consortia.
• Familiarity with patent analytics, AI-assisted evaluation tools, or portfolio valuation methodologies.
• Prior experience launching or managing licensing programs or patent pools.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinker with strong commercial instincts.
• Ability to bridge technical depth with business outcomes.
• Highly collaborative, with a track record of influencing senior stakeholders.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias toward execution and results.

Why Join Via Licensing

• Opportunity to shape the next generation of licensing programs in AI and semiconductor technologies.
• Work at the forefront of collaborative licensing innovation.
• Engage with leading global technology companies and patent holders.
• Play a key leadership role in expanding Via’s footprint into critical, fast-growing markets.

Reporting Structure

• Reports to: President, Via Licensing Alliance
• Works closely with: VP Global Licensing, Legal, Finance, and external technical experts

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $259,000 – 366,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Via LA will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

Via LA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

The Vice President, Finance & Operations will serve as a senior operational executive for Via, bringing financial discipline, scalable operating practices, technology leadership, and leadership capacity to a growing licensing pool administrator. The role will provide executive oversight across Finance, Accounting, Royalty Services, Tax Administration, IT, and ongoing process improvement, while partnering closely with the President and leadership team to strengthen operational resilience, business systems capability, and support business growth. 

The Vice President, Finance & Operations is a key member of the Via’s leadership team and is responsible for leading the operational infrastructure required to support the company’s continued growth and success. This leader will drive financial stewardship, operational scalability, IT and business systems leadership, process modernization, and organizational effectiveness while ensuring high standards of accuracy, compliance, service quality, security awareness, and business performance. 

As a leader of leaders, the VP will build and develop a high-performing management team, establish operating mechanisms that support scale, and serve as a strategic partner to the President in shaping the future operating model of the organization. This is a hybrid role and requires working in the Denver/Greenwood Village office three days per week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Key Responsibilities

Executive Leadership & Business Partnership 

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the President and executive leadership team. 
• Develop and execute operational strategies that support business growth, licensing program expansion, and organizational objectives. 
• Lead annual operating planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning processes. 
• Create and monitor key business performance metrics, operating rhythms, and leadership dashboards. 
• Drive cross-functional alignment, disciplined decision-making, and accountability across operational teams. 

Finance & Accounting Leadership 

• Lead all finance and accounting functions, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, internal controls, treasury management, and audit coordination. 
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of financial reporting and business analysis. 
• Maintain compliance with applicable accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and corporate governance expectations. 
• Partner with leadership to evaluate investments, growth opportunities, resource allocation, and strategic initiatives. 
• Oversee cash flow management, financial risk mitigation, and financial operating discipline. 

Royalty Services Leadership 

• Provide executive oversight of Royalty Services, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, process consistency, and strong stakeholder service. 
• Drive operational excellence across royalty collection, distribution, invoicing, reporting, and customer support. 
• Establish scalable processes capable of supporting increased program complexity, transaction volume, and market growth. 
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that enhance quality, efficiency, service levels, and operational resilience. 

IT, AI & Business Systems Transformation Leadership

• Provide executive oversight of Via’s IT function, ensuring technology services, systems, and support models enable operational scale, business continuity, and secure, reliable execution. 
• Lead the development of a practical AI and automation roadmap that improves productivity, strengthens decision support, and modernizes finance, royalty services, accounting, and business operations. 
• Partner with IT and functional leaders to prioritize systems improvements, infrastructure needs, data integrity, security-aligned practices, AI-enabled tools, and user support capabilities. 
• Ensure IT, AI, and business systems investments are aligned with Via’s licensing program growth, royalty services requirements, finance operations, and broader transformation roadmap. 
• Strengthen governance and accountability for technology-enabled operations, including business systems performance, AI tool adoption, data stewardship, service levels, vendor coordination, and continuous improvement. 
• Champion responsible AI use by establishing practical guardrails, adoption standards, training expectations, and change management practices that support measurable business impact without introducing unnecessary operational, compliance, or reputational risk. 

Operational Excellence & Transformation

• Lead ongoing process improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, reduce risk, and improve execution quality. 
• Identify operational risks, process gaps, and scalability challenges, then implement sustainable solutions. 
• Drive business systems optimization, automation, and modernization efforts in partnership with technology and functional leaders. 
• Establish governance processes, management routines, and operating mechanisms that support effective execution and informed decision-making. 

Organizational Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop functional leaders and managers across Finance, Accounting, Royalty Services, Tax, and Business Operations. 
• Build organizational capability, leadership bench strength, succession plans, and role clarity across the operating functions. 
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. 
• Support workforce planning and organizational design as Via scales. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field. 
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience overseeing finance, accounting, operations, IT, royalty services, shared services, or similarly complex business functions. 
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through other leaders in a multi-layered organization. 
• Proven ability to manage and develop leaders, build organizational capability, and create accountability across multiple functions. 
• Strong financial acumen, business judgment, strategic planning capability, and operational discipline. 
• Experience developing and managing budgets, forecasts, business metrics, and financial performance reporting. 
• Track record of leading operational scaling, process improvement, transformation, or systems modernization initiatives. 

• Experience providing executive oversight of IT, business systems, or technology-enabled operations in partnership with technical leaders. 
• Excellent executive communication, influencing, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills. 
• Ability to operate at both strategic and executional levels in a growing and evolving organization. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced degree or financial certification. 

• Experience in licensing, intellectual property, technology, media, software, financial services, professional services, or another operationally complex environment with significant systems, data, or technology-enabled operations. 
• Experience implementing automation, digital transformation, AI-enabled tools, or other scalable process improvements. 
• Lean, Six Sigma, or operational excellence training or certification. 

The Denver Area base salary range for this full-time position is $186,000 – $263,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

As a senior legal strategist and business partner, the Head of Litigation will play a critical role in developing, leading, and executing Via Licensing Alliance’s global litigation strategy. This leader will oversee complex, high-stakes patent and commercial litigation matters, manage outside counsel, and partner closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure litigation strategy supports Via’s broader business, licensing, and commercial objectives.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will bring exceptional judgment, strategic thinking, negotiation skills, and the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical business guidance. A deep understanding of intellectual property law, patent litigation, licensing practices, and technology-driven business models is essential. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco and requires in-office presence three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.
 

Key Responsibilities: 
 

• Lead end-to-end litigation strategy and execution, including early case assessment, investigation, pleadings, discovery, motion practice, trial preparation, settlement strategy, appeals, and final resolution.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on litigation risk, dispute resolution strategy, licensing enforcement, and matters that may materially impact Via’s commercial objectives.
• Manage and direct outside counsel to ensure thoughtful strategy, disciplined execution, efficient staffing, budget accountability, and alignment with Via’s business priorities.
• Evaluate licensing requests, infringement allegations, claims, counterclaims, and settlement opportunities with strong legal judgment and business acumen.
• Oversee discovery strategy, document collection, privilege review, deposition preparation, expert engagement, and review of key legal filings with close attention to detail and risk management.
• Partner with internal legal, licensing, finance, product, and technical teams to gather facts, assess exposure, develop legal positions, and support successful outcomes.
• Develop practical, business-oriented recommendations for resolving disputes, including litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiated settlement, or other dispute resolution approaches.
• Build and maintain strong processes for litigation management, reporting, matter tracking, budget forecasting, and executive updates.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• 10+ years of litigation experience, including meaningful experience in both a top-tier law firm and in-house legal environment, with a strong focus on patent, intellectual property, and complex commercial litigation.
• Proven ability to lead high-stakes litigation matters involving sophisticated technology, licensing, standards, or intellectual property issues.
• Experience managing outside counsel, litigation budgets, case strategy, and executive-level reporting for complex matters.

The ideal candidate will also demonstrate a strong track record of success in the following areas:

• Developing and executing innovative litigation strategies in patent and intellectual property disputes.
• Applying deep knowledge of patent law, licensing agreements, standards-based technology, and related legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex legal documents, settlement agreements, licensing provisions, and dispute resolution terms with precision and sound judgment.
• Developing and implementing global litigation strategies, operating models, and matter-management processes across jurisdictions.
• Negotiating favorable settlements and resolving disputes in a way that balances legal risk, commercial impact, and long-term business objectives.
• Exercising outstanding judgment, discretion, and professionalism when working on confidential, sensitive, or high-risk matters.
• Operating effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments while maintaining clarity, discipline, and strong attention to detail.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex legal and technical issues for executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams on advanced, novel, and technically complex legal issues.
• A mature, seasoned perspective on patent litigation risk, enforcement strategy, dispute resolution, and the commercial implications of legal decisions.
• Excellent academic credentials and a demonstrated commitment to professional excellence.

Benefits & Perks:

• Flexible work options (9/80 schedule) – employees in the U.S. get every other Friday off.  That’s 26+ three day weekends a year
• Competitive compensation (base + bonus)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k) with 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible pay you contribute on a pre-tax or Roth basis
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous holiday, vacation and sick leave
• Supportive maternity, child bonding, and family care leave programs as well as short and long-term disability benefits
• Programs and resources to support your physical, financial and social well being
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates and retreat
• Catered weekly lunch + snacks and drinks when working in the office
• Temporary remote work option for qualified positions – employees can temporarily work remote from a location that is different from their designated office and home locations for up to 30 calendar days/20 workdays in any 12-month period with manager and company approval
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $232,000 – 328,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

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Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

The Head of IT role is based in Denver, Colorado. This senior leadership role is responsible for setting and executing Via’s technology strategy and leading the technical organization across software engineering, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, IT operations, end-user technology, contractors, vendors, and external technology partners. This leader will own the technical direction for Via’s internal and external technology platforms, including application modernization, scalable architecture, secure software delivery, data and integration strategy, infrastructure reliability, production support, and operational resilience.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, technically credible leader who can engage deeply with engineers, architects, infrastructure teams, security partners, and business stakeholders to design and deliver practical, scalable, and secure technology solutions. This role requires strong technical judgment, current knowledge of modern software development practices, cloud platforms, DevOps, system integrations, and enterprise architecture, along with the ability to build and mentor high-performing technical teams. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable shaping long-term technical strategy, reviewing architecture decisions, guiding engineering execution, troubleshooting complex issues, and communicating technology risks and tradeoffs to executive leaders. This hybrid role is required to work onsite in the Denver/Greenwood Village office three days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead Via’s enterprise technology strategy, architecture roadmap, and technical operating model across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, integrations, IT operations, and end-user technology.
• Provide technical, operational, and people leadership for the IT organization, including software developers, technical leads, systems analysts, infrastructure and support resources, contractors, vendors, and external partners.
• Lead the design, development, modernization, and support of Via’s internally developed and enterprise technology platforms, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term technical direction.
• Establish strong architecture practices across applications, integrations, data flows, infrastructure, identity/access management, security, and cloud environments, ensuring sound technical decisions and appropriate documentation.
• Drive software engineering excellence across SDLC, Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, code quality, automated testing, release management, technical documentation, and production readiness.
• Oversee the modernization, maintenance, and technical support of key platforms and tools, including PortLA, WebLA, QlikView, Dynamics CRM, Microsoft 365 applications, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, .NET-based applications, and other enterprise or internally developed applications.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies, platforms, engineering tools, automation capabilities, AI-enabled productivity tools, and cloud services, with clear assessment of technical feasibility, scalability, security, maintainability, and business value.
• Partner with business leaders across Royalty Services, Accounting, Finance, Legal, Licensing, Program Management, Operations, and other functions to translate business needs into technically sound solutions while maintaining appropriate architectural standards and delivery discipline.
• Guide development teams from technical discovery and solution design through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, enhancement planning, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture, information security, infrastructure, compliance, internal audit, external audit, project management, and functional stakeholders to deliver full-stack technical solutions that support near-term priorities and long-range business goals.
• Establish and maintain IT engineering standards, technical policies, procedures, documentation expectations, systems administration practices, change management processes, security controls, and operational runbooks.
• Build and maintain resilient production support models, including application and infrastructure monitoring, performance management, incident response, root-cause analysis, escalation practices, disaster recovery planning, and service reliability metrics.
• Ensure technology solutions and development practices comply with applicable security, SOC 1, SOX, audit, data governance, access control, and quality requirements, including timely documentation and support for compliance reviews.
• Develop and manage IT operating budgets, capital expenditures, vendor relationships, and technology investments with a focus on technical capability, reliability, security, scalability, and responsible financial stewardship.
• Provide clear executive-level updates on technology strategy, architecture decisions, project status, technical risks, cyber and operational risks, staffing coverage, budget considerations, system performance, and critical incidents.
• Promote a technically strong and service-oriented IT culture that balances engineering discipline, operational excellence, customer service, accountability, documentation, continuous improvement, and secure delivery.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field required; advanced technical degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive technology experience, including leadership across software engineering, application architecture, cloud-based platforms, infrastructure, IT operations, enterprise applications, and end-user technology in a complex environment.
• 10+ years of people leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to build, coach, and lead high-performing technical teams, including developers, technical leads, systems analysts, infrastructure resources, contractors, and vendor partners.
• Strong hands-on technical credibility and judgment across modern software development, full-stack application concepts, system architecture, cloud architecture, integrations, APIs, data platforms, automation, DevOps, and secure systems delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading application modernization, technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, cloud migration or optimization, systems implementation, production support models, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience with Microsoft technology ecosystems, including Microsoft 365, Azure, Power Platform, Dynamics CRM, .NET-based applications, identity and access management, and related enterprise tools; experience with analytics, reporting, workflow automation, and AI-enabled productivity tools preferred.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, ITIL practices, change management, quality assurance, release management, technical documentation, security, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Demonstrated ability to assess technical tradeoffs, review solution designs, guide engineering teams, resolve complex technical issues, and ensure systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, access controls, infrastructure security, secure application development, vulnerability management, incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, and data governance.
• Proven ability to partner with executive leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business priorities into practical, secure, scalable, and well-governed technology solutions.
• Strong communication, executive presence, and influencing skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts, risks, options, and recommendations clearly to business leaders, executive management, and Board-level audiences.
• Experience managing IT budgets, vendor relationships, service providers, software licensing, cloud services, and technology investments with a focus on technical value, risk mitigation, reliability, and operational discipline.
• Knowledge of SOC 1, SOX, internal controls, audit processes, data governance, and secure application development practices preferred.
• Experience with IP licensing, patent licensing, royalty management, financial systems, or other complex transaction-based business processes preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible work options, including a 9/80 schedule for U.S. employees with every other Friday off—more than 26 three-day weekends each year.
• Competitive compensation, including base salary and bonus opportunity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus Health Savings Account contributions.
• 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible pay contributed on a pre-tax or Roth basis.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Generous holiday, vacation, and sick leave.
• Maternity, child bonding, and family care leave programs, as well as short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Programs and resources that support your physical, financial, and social well-being.
• Social activities, including team events and onsite gatherings, all-company updates, and retreats.
• Catered weekly lunches, plus snacks and drinks when working in the office.
• Temporary remote work options for eligible employees, with approval, for up to 30 calendar days (20 workdays) in a 12-month period from a location other than their designated office or home location.
• Tuition reimbursement program.

The Denver Area base salary range for this full-time position is 170,000 – $234,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

As Senior Manager, Business Development & Technology, you will play a key role in identifying, evaluating, and advancing new patent pool and licensing program opportunities at the intersection of emerging technology, intellectual property, standards development, and market adoption. This role will focus on developing actionable market insights, building business cases, engaging with ecosystem stakeholders, and supporting the formation and growth of new licensing programs.

The ideal candidate will bring strong business development instincts, analytical rigor, technical curiosity, and a solid understanding of intellectual property and technology markets. This individual must be comfortable working across legal, licensing, finance, program management, and technical teams, while also engaging externally with patent owners, technology companies, standards participants, industry associations, and prospective strategic partners.

This is a highly collaborative and externally focused role that requires the ability to translate complex technology and market dynamics into clear commercial strategies. The Senior Manager will help Via identify where collaborative licensing solutions can address market inefficiencies, support broader technology adoption, and create value for innovators and implementers.  This hybrid role is based in San Francisco and requires in-office presence three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and develop new business opportunities for patent pools and other collaborative licensing programs across emerging and established technology markets, including artificial intelligence, data center infrastructure, semiconductors, connectivity, media, power, and other standards-based technologies.

• Monitor emerging technology trends, standards activity, market adoption patterns, patent ownership dynamics, and competitive licensing models to identify opportunities before they mature into established licensing markets.

• Develop market landscapes and opportunity assessments covering technology adoption, addressable markets, value chains, key patent holders, implementers, standards organizations, industry associations, competitive dynamics, and commercialization pathways.

• Build business cases for new licensing opportunities, including market sizing, adoption forecasts, revenue considerations, potential licensing models, target licensors and licensees, stakeholder maps, implementation risks, and recommended go-to-market approaches.

• Translate complex technical, legal, and market information into clear, commercially actionable recommendations for senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Support the creation, development, and launch of new patent pool programs and strategic initiatives by helping define the opportunity, value proposition, participation model, commercial framework, and stakeholder engagement strategy.

• Lead or support outreach to prospective licensors, strategic partners, technology companies, standards participants, and other ecosystem stakeholders to assess market interest and build alignment around potential licensing solutions.

• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with patent owners, implementers, industry participants, standards organizations, and other external stakeholders to support program development and long-term business growth.

• Partner closely with legal, licensing, finance, program management, and technical teams to assess patent landscapes, standards relevance, essentiality considerations, commercial viability, regulatory considerations, and operational requirements for new programs.

• Support the development of licensing concepts that align royalty structures, licensing terms, and participation models with how technologies are implemented, adopted, and monetized in the market.

• Prepare strategic recommendations, executive presentations, research summaries, market analyses, and business cases to ensure Via leadership and other stakeholders are well informed on new program opportunities and related market developments.

• Support negotiation preparation and program launch activities, including commercial terms, governance structures, participation models, stakeholder communications, and go-to-market planning.

• Maintain and manage a pipeline of potential business development opportunities, including establishing evaluation criteria, prioritization frameworks, tracking mechanisms, and regular reporting for internal stakeholders.

• Represent Via professionally in external business development discussions, industry forums, conferences, working groups, and other settings where new technology and licensing opportunities may emerge.

• Contribute to continuous improvement of Via’s business development processes, tools, research methods, market intelligence capabilities, and opportunity evaluation frameworks.

Qualifications and Skills

• 8+ years of experience in business development, technology strategy, intellectual property, patent licensing, standards-based technology markets, strategic partnerships, consulting, or a related field.

• Experience working in or supporting technology-driven industries such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, data center infrastructure, connectivity, consumer electronics, media technologies, software, telecommunications, automotive technology, power, or other standards-based markets.

• Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property, patent licensing, patent pools, standards development, or other collaborative licensing models; experience with SEP/FRAND concepts is preferred.

• Strong ability to evaluate emerging technologies, market opportunities, patent ownership dynamics, standards ecosystems, and commercial adoption trends.

• Proven ability to develop business cases, market landscapes, opportunity assessments, financial or commercial models, executive presentations, and strategic recommendations.

• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical, legal, financial, and market information into clear business insights.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal teams and external partners across legal, licensing, technical, financial, and executive audiences.

• Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and drive work forward in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• High degree of initiative, ownership, intellectual curiosity, and sound business judgment, with the ability to operate independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, economics, law, or a related field required; advanced degree such as an MBA, JD, technical master’s degree, or PhD is preferred.

• Experience with market intelligence tools, patent analytics, CRM systems, financial modeling, data analysis, or business development pipeline management tools is a plus.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible work options (9/80 schedule) – employees in the U.S. get every other Friday off.  That’s 26+ three day weekends a year
• Competitive compensation (base + bonus)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k) with 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible pay you contribute on a pre-tax or Roth basis
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous holiday, vacation and sick leave
• Supportive maternity, child bonding, and family care leave programs as well as short and long-term disability benefits
• Programs and resources to support your physical, financial and social well being
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates and retreat
• Catered weekly lunch + snacks and drinks when working in the office
• Temporary remote work option for qualified positions – employees can temporarily work remote from a location that is different from their designated office and home locations for up to 30 calendar days/20 workdays in any 12-month period with manager and company approval
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 – $261,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12 

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

As Senior Manager, Financial & Strategic Planning, you will play a key role in strengthening Via’s financial planning, forecasting, business modeling, and strategic decision-support capabilities. This role will partner closely with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and executive leadership to translate complex market, licensing, operational, and financial information into clear insights that support growth, resource allocation, and long-term business planning.

The ideal candidate will bring strong financial acumen, analytical rigor, business judgment, and the ability to build scalable planning tools and models in a complex, technology-driven licensing environment. This individual must be comfortable working with large data sets, developing assumptions-based forecasts, evaluating licensing economics, and preparing clear recommendations for senior leaders.

This is a highly cross-functional role that requires both strategic perspective and strong execution. The Senior Manager will help Via improve forecasting discipline, evaluate new and existing licensing programs, develop financial models for strategic initiatives, and create consistent analytical frameworks that support informed decision-making across the organization.  This hybrid role is based in San Francisco and requires in-office presence three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models for existing and prospective licensing programs, including revenue, royalty, participation, distribution, cost, margin, and profitability forecasts.

• Lead and support annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range strategic planning processes, translating business objectives into measurable financial and operating plans.

• Build market-sizing and revenue models incorporating technology adoption, unit volumes, pricing, royalty structures, penetration rates, program participation, and other key commercial assumptions.

• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to support new program development, commercial negotiations, licensing strategy, strategic initiatives, and executive decision-making.

• Evaluate alternative royalty structures, licensing models, pricing approaches, and commercial terms, and quantify their financial impact on Via and participating stakeholders.

• Partner with Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and technical teams to evaluate new opportunities and develop investment and business cases.

• Track actual performance against forecasts, analyze material variances, and identify the underlying business, market, operational, or licensing drivers behind performance trends.

• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and recurring reporting tools to monitor program performance, pipeline development, licensee penetration, revenue growth, cost trends, and other strategic priorities.

• Analyze industry, technology, competitive, customer, and macroeconomic trends that could affect licensing revenues, royalty flows, program economics, or long-term strategic plans.

• Prepare executive and board-level presentations, financial analyses, strategic insights, and recommendations that clearly communicate business performance, opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs.

• Develop frameworks for prioritizing new initiatives based on expected financial return, strategic importance, execution risk, market opportunity, resource requirements, and organizational capacity.

• Improve forecasting methodologies and establish consistent assumptions, data inputs, analytical standards, and review processes across business cases and planning cycles.

• Support cross-functional decision-making by translating complex financial, licensing, and market information into concise, actionable insights for senior management.

• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, reporting tools, data quality, automation, and analytical capabilities to support scale and operational efficiency.

• Serve as a trusted analytical partner to business leaders by providing thoughtful financial guidance, proactive insights, and practical recommendations that support Via’s growth strategy.

Qualifications and Skills

• 8+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic finance, corporate finance, business planning, licensing economics, consulting, investment analysis, or a related field.

• Strong financial modeling skills, including experience building revenue forecasts, scenario analyses, sensitivity models, business cases, valuation analyses, or long-range planning models.

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial, operational, market, and commercial information into clear insights and actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

• Experience supporting annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, KPI reporting, or strategic planning processes in a complex business environment.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large or imperfect data sets, develop sound assumptions, and clearly explain key drivers and tradeoffs.

• Excellent business judgment and strategic thinking, with the ability to connect financial analysis to broader company priorities, market opportunities, and operational realities.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready materials and explain complex financial concepts to both finance and non-finance audiences.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Finance, Licensing, Business Development, Program Management, Legal, Royalty Services, and executive leadership.

• High degree of ownership, initiative, intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and accountability, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel or similar financial modeling tools; experience with Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce, CRM data, ERP systems, planning tools, or other business intelligence platforms is a plus.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Data Analytics, or a related field required; MBA, CPA, CFA, or other advanced degree or financial certification is preferred.

• Experience in intellectual property, patent licensing, technology, media, software, semiconductors, telecommunications, professional services, or another data-intensive business environment is preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible work options (9/80 schedule) – employees in the U.S. get every other Friday off.  That’s 26+ three day weekends a year
• Competitive compensation (base + bonus)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with Health Savings Account contribution
• 401(k) with 50% company match on the first 6% of eligible pay you contribute on a pre-tax or Roth basis
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Generous holiday, vacation and sick leave
• Supportive maternity, child bonding, and family care leave programs as well as short and long-term disability benefits
• Programs and resources to support your physical, financial and social well being
• Social activities including team events and onsites, all-company updates and retreat
• Catered weekly lunch + snacks and drinks when working in the office
• Temporary remote work option for qualified positions – employees can temporarily work remote from a location that is different from their designated office and home locations for up to 30 calendar days/20 workdays in any 12-month period with manager and company approval
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $153,000 – $210,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12 

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe.

Via is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. Our expertise extends to intellectual property, technology standardization, strategic business development, and program administration. Affiliated specialists in the fields of finance, antitrust law, and patent analysis complete the set of capabilities that make Via a premier solutions provider to the world’s most sophisticated technology and entertainment companies.

The Senior Accountant plays a key role in the monthly and quarterly financial close process, ensures compliance with US GAAP and internal controls, and drives process improvements across AR functions, ensuring actual revenue reporting is reported accurately and timely. This position requires exceptional analytical skills, the ability to manage large and complex data sets, and a deep understanding of royalty methodologies and accounting practices. This position is also responsible for learning and understanding Via’s complex royalty reporting, advanced billing activities, high-value Licensee accounts, and end-to-end accounts receivable (AR) and revenue processes.

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of three days per week in the Greenwood Village office. We are looking for a collaborative professional who is eager to learn, contribute, and grow while helping the team achieve its goals.

Key Responsibilities

Advanced Accounts Receivable & Collections

• Oversee reconciliation of payments, adjustments, credits, and complex account transactions.
• Prepare and analyze weekly AR  and open licensee reporting and provide summary explanations to management for past due accounts.
• Perform regular reconciliations of customer accounts

General Accounting & Financial Close

• Play a key role in supporting the monthly and quarterly financial close process, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness.
• Assist in preparation of internal executive review summaries for quarterly senior management financial statement review procedures.
• Ensure all assignments comply with accounting policies, US GAAP, and regulatory requirements. This includes detailed knowledge of the company’s ASC 606 policy.
• Analyze large financial data sets to identify trends, reporting variances, payment behaviors, and operational risks.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close through reconciliations, documentation, and variance analysis.
• Provide insights that help improve forecasting, revenue cycles, and program administration.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify finance and accounting-related issues within the business and implement solutions.
• Represent the department in cross-functional initiatives, audits, and special projects.

Royalty Reporting & Program Expertise

• Work closely and strategically with Royalty Teams for monthly and quarterly deliverables, providing ad hoc support as needed.
• Collaborate with Compliance for reporting and invoicing as needed
• Partner with product, technical, and program teams as needed to evaluate and test system updates affecting royalty workflows.

Compliance, Systems & Process Improvement

• Ensure strict adherence to SOX, SOC 1, and internal control requirements; perform closing duties with sufficient accuracy and autonomy to comply with quarter-close SOX controls.
• Assist external and internal auditors as needed.
• Evaluate existing workflows and recommend operational improvements to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Resolve systems issues affecting assigned areas and partner with IT on development and most efficient use of systems.
• Participate in system upgrades, enhancement testing, and documentation of new procedures.

Qualifications & Skills

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting, royalty accounting, accounts receivable, financial analysis, licensing operations, or comparable roles.
• General understanding of US GAAP accounting and familiarity with revenue recognition guidelines.
• Experience managing complex accounts and leading process improvements.
• Experience mentoring colleagues, leading projects, or coordinating cross-functional initiatives is preferred.
• Experience with a Partnership or Public Company preferred.

Technical & Professional Skills

• Strong proficiency with Office 365 applications (Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint).
• Advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, data modeling), with strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficiency with ERP or accounting systems (SAP experience a plus), CRM tools, and reporting platforms.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including customer-facing correspondence and the ability to convey information clearly to all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing priorities, manage multiple deadlines, and work effectively both independently and collaboratively.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, compliance requirements, and audit standards.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Other accounting or analytical certifications are a plus.

The Denver Area base salary range for this full-time position is $80,000 – 107,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

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Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. 
 
Via is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. Our expertise extends to intellectual property, technology standardization, strategic business development, and program administration. Affiliated specialists in the fields of finance, antitrust law, and patent analysis complete the set of capabilities that make Via a premier solutions provider to the world’s most sophisticated technology and entertainment companies. 

About the NextGen Program: 

NextGen is Via LA’s multi-phase enterprise modernization program focused on transforming legacy licensing, royalty-management, financial, and operational processes into a modular, cloud-native platform. The program is designed to improve automation, scalability, maintainability, data integrity, business-rule transparency, end-to-end traceability, and operational controls while reducing dependency on tightly coupled legacy applications. The platform supports complex, rules-driven processes across patent licensing, royalty reporting and processing, financial calculations, tax, audit and compliance, document management, notifications, reporting, and related operational workflows. The target architecture leverages reusable business capabilities, workflow orchestration, APIs, event-driven integrations, configurable business rules, and modern cloud services. 

Position Summary: 

The Senior Business Systems Analyst (BSA) will play a critical role in the analysis, design, delivery, validation, and implementation of Via LA’s NextGen platform while continuing to support related legacy applications during the transformation. The BSA will translate complex business needs into clear, testable, and traceable requirements and serve as a key liaison across business, Product Owners, developers, QA, and operational teams throughout the software development lifecycle. 

This role requires strong business-analysis discipline and sufficient technical depth to collaborate effectively on microservices, workflows, APIs, data models, integration contracts, cloud services, and system dependencies. The BSA is not expected to develop application code but must understand technical designs, identify gaps and downstream impacts, and ensure implemented solutions align with approved business requirements. This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of three days per week in the Greenwood Village office. We are looking for a collaborative professional who is eager to learn, contribute, and grow while helping the team achieve its goals.  

Key Responsibilities: 

Business Analysis, Requirements & Scope Management 

• Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and refinement for complex enterprise capabilities. 

• Develop and maintain BRDs, FRDs, use cases, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, decision tables, process flows, and functional specifications. 

• Translate complex licensing, royalty, accounting, tax, compliance, and operational processes into implementable system requirements  

• Facilitate workshops with Product Owners, business stakeholders, SMEs, architects, developers, QA engineers, and implementation partners. 

• Perform current-state, future-state, and gap analysis across legacy applications, manual processes, data flows, and target-state capabilities. 

• Identify and document assumptions, dependencies, constraints, risks, unresolved decisions, and cross-system impacts. 

• Establish requirements baselines and identify material changes requiring additional analysis, approval, or scope review. 

• Ensure requirements are complete, testable, traceable, and sufficiently detailed before development and testing begin. 

• Support internal go-to-market and adoption strategies for AI-powered workflows, agentic experiences, and internal products that simplify employee work across enterprise platforms. 

Business Process, Capability & Data Modeling 

• Model end-to-end business processes, workflows, system interactions, decision points, exception paths, manual controls, and service boundaries. 

• Use Enterprise Architect, Miro, Visio, or similar tools to maintain domain models, capability maps, swimlane diagrams, data-flow diagrams, system interaction diagrams, and data dictionaries. 

• Decompose large business processes into reusable capabilities and clearly defined functional responsibilities. 

• Document business data definitions, field-level requirements, reference data, mappings, ownership, validation rules, and data-quality expectations. 

• Maintain alignment across business-process models, requirements, solution designs, Jira stories, test cases, and Confluence documentation. 

Functional & Solution Design 

• Collaborate with solution architects, developers, Product Owners, and SMEs to translate business requirements into practical and supportable solution designs. 

• Evaluate solution options based on business value, usability, scalability, security, compliance, integration, data, cost, and operational-support considerations. 

• Define functional behaviors for role-based access, approvals, alerts, escalations, audit history, document versioning, metadata, reporting, and exception management. 

• Develop decision tables, scenario matrices, and rule catalogs that make business logic explicit, reusable, testable, and auditable. 

• Define reconciliation and traceability requirements so system outputs can be tied to authoritative source data and approved business rules. 

Workflow, Integration & System Analysis 

• Define workflows involving human tasks, approvals, automated processing, notifications, and completion criteria. 

• Support BPMN-based workflow design and orchestration platforms such as Camunda. 

• Translate business processes into integration requirements for APIs, events, services, legacy applications, middleware, and third-party platforms. 

• Document source and target systems, triggers, request/response behavior, payload structures, field mappings, validation rules, error handling, retry behavior, and reconciliation requirements. 

• Work with architects and developers to ensure API and event contracts accurately support approved business requirements. 

• Understand and document integration payload without responsibility for developing API endpoints or application code. 

Data, Reporting & Analytics 

• Define data requirements, business definitions, mappings, ownership, quality expectations, retention needs, and reconciliation controls. 

• Partner with technical teams on source-to-target mappings, data pipelines, integration dependencies, and monitoring. 

• Support data profiling, cleansing, conversion planning, migration validation, reconciliation, and post-conversion verification. 

• Develop reports, dashboards, and analytics using Qlik Sense, Power BI, or similar visualization tools to support operational and leadership decision-making. 

• Help ensure secure, reliable, and traceable data movement across enterprise systems. 

Agile / Scrum Delivery & Backlog Management 

• Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives, and lead or facilitate these sessions as needed. 

• Partner with Product Owners to maintain a prioritized, well-defined, and implementation-ready backlog. 

• Ensure Jira stories contain sufficient business context, requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and traceability before entering development. 

• Support MVP definition, capability sequencing, dependency management, milestone planning, and release planning. 

• Identify requirement gaps, conflicting expectations, dependencies, and scope risks early to reduce downstream development and testing defects. 

Testing, Validation & Release Readiness 

• Partner with QA engineers and business stakeholders to define test scenarios, business test cases, expected results, test-data requirements, and exception scenarios. 

• Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, reconciliation, parallel validation, and other business-validation activities. 

• Track defects, decisions, retesting, acceptance evidence, and unresolved risks through release readiness. 

• Support production-readiness reviews, deployment validation, post-implementation verification, and transition to application support. 

Audit, Controls & Governance 

• Document business processes and system behavior in support of SOX, internal controls, security, compliance, and audit requirements. 

• Support development and maintenance of process narratives, control flows, system/data-flow documentation, and audit evidence. 

• Ensure documentation accurately identifies relevant systems, services, databases, jobs, interfaces, data movement, controls, and monitoring processes. 

• Support internal and external audit walkthroughs with complete, current, and traceable documentation. 

Documentation, Communication & Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Produce high-quality analysis and project artifacts and facilitate business validation and UAT activities. 

• Maintain accurate documentation in Jira, Confluence, Enterprise Architect, and other approved repositories. 

• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to resolve ambiguity, facilitate decisions, and reduce delivery risk. 

• Collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams, including Global Licensing, Finance, Royalty Services, Accounting, Tax, Legal/Compliance, Patent Operations, IT Infrastructure, Information Security, and internal and external audit teams. 

• Support knowledge transfer, operational handoff, and ongoing documentation of implemented system behavior. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field;  

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Systems Analyst, or similar role supporting complex enterprise applications. 

• Demonstrated experience with enterprise modernization, platform transformation, microservices, or legacy-system replacement initiatives. 

• Strong experience developing business and functional requirements for complex workflows, business rules, calculations, data, and integrations. 

• Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments. 

• Experience collaborating directly with Product Owners, architects, developers, QA teams, and business stakeholders. 

• Experience supporting SIT, UAT, defect management, release readiness, and production validation. 

• Experience documenting enterprise integrations, APIs, data mappings, data pipelines, or event-driven interfaces. 

• Experience maintaining requirements and test traceability throughout the software development lifecycle. 

• Strong written and verbal communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills. 

• Strong foundational understanding of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) concepts and data pipelines. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Enterprise Architect, or comparable modeling tools such as Miro and Visio. 

• Strong business-process modeling, requirements-analysis, and functional-specification skills. 

• Ability to document complex business rules, calculation logic, decision tables, and exception scenarios. 

• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON/XML payloads, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures. 

• Familiarity with cloud-native and microservices-based architectures; Microsoft Azure experience is desirable. 

• Familiarity with BPMN and workflow-orchestration platforms such as Camunda. 

• Familiarity with enterprise ERP and CRM platforms, including SAP Finance and Salesforce(Sales/Service/Experience Cloud) 

• Experience documenting interface and integration specifications for middleware platforms such as Informatica, SAP BTP Integration Suite, or similar apps. 

• Experience in automation tools such as Tosca, Selenium or UiPath.  

• Relevant certifications such as PMP, Scrum, CBAP, PMI-PBA, or related business-analysis/product-management credentials. 

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The Denver Area base salary range for this full-time position is $89,800 – 120,100 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

What you’ll do

The Tax Administration Analyst is responsible for supporting royalty accounting operations, Licensee reporting and invoicing specifically focused on withholding tax administration, customer tax documentation, and related financial close activities. This role works with large volumes of royalty and tax data, prepares accurate work product within established deadlines, and serves as a knowledgeable point of contact for Licensees, Licensors, internal teams, external tax advisors, and the Dolby tax team.

This position plays an integral role in maintaining strong customer relationships through professional written communications and accurate handling of royalty reporting, billing, collections, and tax inquiries. The Analyst is expected to apply strong accounting judgment, understand royalty calculation and allocation methodologies, maintain tax records, tax rate data, and help ensure tax documentation supports appropriate withholding treatment.

The Analyst is expected to work independently, take initiative, identify process improvements, assist with the documentation and implementation of controls, and provide guidance to team members on royalty and tax administration processes. Strict adherence to internal controls and operational protocols is crucial to our ability to provide the highest level of service and meet contractual, financial reporting, and tax compliance obligations.  This hybrid role requires to work onsite at the Greenwood Village office three days per week (Tues/Wed/Thurs).

You will:

• Assist Licensees and Licensors with questions related to royalty reporting, billing, withholding tax documentation, beneficial ownership, treaty rate support, and annual tax form renewal requirements” mentioned below.)

• Respond via email to requests promptly and appropriately, communicate complicated information in a clear and concise manner while maintaining the companies service level expectations. Provide guidance to team members regarding communications to be sent to customers according to department guidelines.
• Process, analyze, and reconcile large volumes of tax data using Excel and internal systems.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, as needed.
• Monitor day-to-day activities related to Licensee communications, royalty reporting, invoicing, customer tax forms, vendor receipts, and related system documentation.
• Maintain tax form and tax rate data within accounts receivable and royalty administration tools to support accurate invoicing and withholding tax treatment.
• Assist Licensees and Licensors with questions related to royalty reporting, billing, withholding tax documentation, beneficial ownership, treaty rate support, and annual tax form renewal requirements.
• Coordinate with internal departments, external tax advisors, foreign tax authorities, and the Dolby tax team to support timely completion of domestic and foreign tax filings and related information requests.
• Conduct tax and accounting research as needed, including review of withholding rates, customer documentation requirements, and system application of tax rules.
• Develop a strong understanding of pool royalty calculation and allocation methodologies, licensing agreements, and implications of patent changes.
• Identify, recommend, document, and assist with implementation and testing of process, control, and system improvements, including updates to tax form databases, internal software systems, and department procedures.
• Provide guidance to team members and participate in training activities related to royalty services, tax administration, customer communications, and internal processes.

What you need to succeed

• Apply strong accounting, analytical, and critical thinking skills to solve complex royalty, billing, collections, and tax administration issues.

• Be highly detail-oriented; our processes depend on accurate data, clean reporting, timely documentation, and consistent application of controls.
• Prioritize multiple demands, manage deadlines, and work well under pressure while maintaining professional-quality work product.
• Work autonomously, take initiative, exercise sound judgment, and communicate workload, risks, and priorities clearly to management and team members.
• Understand and apply internal controls, SOC 1, SOX, department procedures, and operational protocols.
• Communicate complex accounting, royalty, billing, and tax documentation concepts clearly and professionally to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to learn new systems, tax concepts, licensing structures, and evolving business processes.

Desired background

• BS degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.

• 2+ years of relevant accounting, royalty, accounts receivable, tax administration, financial operations, or related experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of financial close processes, reconciliations, account analysis, billing, collections, and general tax principles.
• Experience with withholding tax documentation, customer tax forms, treaty rate support, or international tax administration preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Knowledge of SAP, BI tools, ticketing systems, or proprietary financial applications preferred.
• Proven experience analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, preparing accurate reporting, and recommending process improvements.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with customers, team members, management, and external advisors.

The Denver Area base salary range for this full-time position is $66,000 – $86,000 and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Join the leader in collaborative licensing and help us advance inclusive and efficient new patent licensing approaches to drive innovation globally. Via Licensing Alliance is dedicated to accelerating global technology adoption, fostering participation, and generating return on innovation with balanced IP licensing solutions for innovators and manufacturers of all sizes around the globe. Via administers dozens of patent licensing programs in audio, video, broadcast, power, and more for a variety of technologies, consisting of 25,000 patents in over 130 countries, with nearly 100 current patent holders and over 3,000 current licensees.

Via Licensing Alliance, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, is an independently managed company owned by industry-leading participants with over 25 years of intellectual property licensing leadership. We are the world’s largest patent pool administrator. We aggregate patents around key innovations and offer licensing solutions that give companies streamlined access to standardized technologies. For decades, we have served as a trusted bridge between our licensors and licensees, driving a strong and efficient IP licensing environment that yields better products and technologies for people around the world.

The part-time Office Administrator manages the daily administrative functions for the San Francisco office.  This position requires a comprehensive understanding and execution of activities, responsibilities, and interactions to facilitate seamless administrative operations. The Office Administrator receives visitors and provides general administrative, organizational, and communicative support to all Via San Francisco based staff.  The Office Administrator will work closely with the Dolby Places Team and will be the main point of contact for the regional office. This non-exempt, part-time role requires to work in the San Francisco office three full days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).

Key Responsibilities 

•    Plan for, budget for and manage day-to-day activities of the San Francisco office. Seek out assistance requests from other departments. Manage office reception, mail, messenger services, FedEx, internal mail and the scheduling of conference rooms.

•    Receives visitors while maintaining the upmost security of the Via suite, also provides refreshments and notifies the appropriate parties of all incoming visitors.

•    Provide administrative support to senior leaders as needed, including travel coordination, expense reporting, presentation preparation, and other related administrative tasks.

•    Maintain the inventory of office supplies and non-IT office equipment, furniture, plants, art work and other assets. 

•    Provides administrative support for all staff, including:

•    Coordinate weekly lunches for the San Francisco staff and on-site and off-site social events.

•    Communicate/Distribute incoming correspondence.

•    Arrange for outgoing correspondence or packages.

•    Arrange meeting and conference calls as requested.

•    Assist with mass mailings.

•    Organize files; email filing as needed.

•    Handle various administrative requests.

•    Receiving and prioritizing mail and shipments.

•    Supplying and conducting inventory of kitchen.

•    Ensures the proper ordering and maintenance of all office supplies and groceries.

•    Maintains the order and appearance of the San Francisco office.

•    Maintains the order of the kitchen.

•    Maintains office equipment and contacts vendors for necessary repairs.

•    With direction from the Dolby Places Team, help coordinate building improvements, repairs, maintenance, parking assignments and office moves for the San Francisco location. Help to manage off-site and on-site storage as needed. Obtain janitorial and other office maintenance services as requested.

•    Receives, logs-in and distributes invoices and mail to the appropriate departments.

•    Manage and perform special projects as requested by other departments.

•    Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Skills

•    Relevant prior work experience in professional office environment

•    Professional and positive attitude

•    Detailed knowledge of administration practices

•    Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office business applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

•    Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills

•    Detail oriented with ability to work well independently and ability to organize and manage multiple priorities

•    Professional maturity, discretion, and cooperation in dealing with people at all levels inside and outside the Company.

The San Francisco/Bay Area hourly base pay range for this part-time position is $32.00 – $41.00 per hour and can vary if outside of this location. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Via will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12 

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Via is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.