Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Director

• Manage intellectual property matters critical to the Company’s success and counsel senior business leaders
• Own the global patent strategy across product candidates and platform technologies
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize inventions from clinical programs, R&D, CMC, formulation, and device development
• Direct outside counsel in drafting, filing, and prosecuting worldwide patent applications
• Manage the patent lifecycle, including continuations, divisionals, patent term adjustment/extension, and Orange Book or equivalent listing decisions
• Maintain IP asset registers and portfolio maps
• Perform exploratory freedom-to-operate analyses and coordinate formal analyses with external counsel
• Monitor competitor and third-party patent landscapes and developing IP law
• Brief R&D and executive leadership on developments affecting program risk or opportunity
• Support due diligence for financing, licensing, collaboration, and sponsored research agreements
• Support negotiation of IP terms in licensing, collaboration, sponsored research, material transfer, CDA/NDA, and manufacturing/supply agreements
• Partner on patent strategy and regulatory exclusivities across FDA, Health Canada, and EMA
• Review and maintain trade secret protection, confidentiality, and invention assignment practices
• Assess inventorship, ownership, and freedom-to-operate risks
• Support opposition, re-examination, IPR, and litigation strategy
• Maintain the trademark portfolio
• Own the IP budget and manage outside patent firms across key jurisdictions
• Report portfolio status, risks, and strategic recommendations to the executive team
• Maintain IP-related policies and train scientific staff on invention capture and confidentiality
• Participate in special projects and legal research as needed

Director, Intellectual Property

Communications

• Develop external corporate communications strategies and plans for corporate and product stories
• Partner with executive and functional teams on corporate brand stewardship, positioning and messaging
• Own and update the company’s overarching narrative and message architecture across external channels
• Obtain Executive Team and stakeholder approval for corporate branding strategy and content
• Develop and draft website content, press releases, R&D Day materials and investor materials
• Coordinate scientific, clinical and medical content with the CMO and relevant subject matter experts
• Contribute to press releases, earnings releases, corporate updates and clinical trial milestone announcements
• Prepare briefing materials for quarterly earnings calls, investor conferences and the annual report/MD&A narrative
• Develop talking points and Q&A documents for investor, media and public forums
• Support Investor Relations positioning materials, including corporate deck, fact sheet and website content
• Coordinate external messaging calendars around clinical catalysts and disclosure obligations
• Manage corporate social media presence on LinkedIn and X/Twitter
• Support scientific and medical communications, including congress materials, advisory board materials, KOL communications, publications and disease-state education
• Ensure scientific, clinical and medical communications receive appropriate review and approval
• Maintain working fluency in disease areas and competitive landscapes
• Support Commercial in defining audience-specific messages and proof points for healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, payers, investors and internal stakeholders
• Report to the Chief Corporate Development Officer

Director, Intellectual Property

Director – External Corporate Communications