(33996) Start-up Growth Manager

NUS Enterprise; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NUS Enterprise is seeking a dynamic professional to support the Landing Pad and ecosystem initiatives at Kent Ridge Campus. You will oversee the PIER71 Landing Pad, shaping offerings to accelerate start-up growth through mentorship, market access, and capital connections.

You will manage relationships with start-ups and contributors, drive engagement across initiatives, and coordinate onboarding processes. Strong collaboration across diverse stakeholders is essential in this 2-year contract role.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in startup ecosystem development or a related role.
• Strong relational and communication skills to secure trust and buy‑in from multiple cross-cultural stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills with ability to multitask from start to finish.
• Clear experience in establishing alignment and attribution between start‑up support activities and organizational outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the PIER71 Landing Pad, a structured soft-landing initiative with mentorship, fundraising, market entry, and ecosystem connectivity.
• Design and iterate offerings to drive start-up growth in revenue, capital access, team, and market expansion.
• Analyse the effectiveness of offerings and make recommendations for improvement.
• Maintain and evolve the start-up engagement strategy and calendar across all PIER71 initiatives to grow participation.
• Manage end-to-end relationships with Landing Pad start-ups, ensuring high participation, retention, and satisfaction.
• Support onboarding/offboarding processes with Finance/Admin (documents, checklists, turnaround times).
• Grow relationships with Landing Pad contributors (mentors, domain experts, consultants).
• Convert contributors into active inputs (mentoring hours, office hours, workshops, connections, investor readiness support).
• Equip and communicate regularly with contributors to ensure timely materials are prepared and distributed.

Skills

Startup ecosystem development

Relational skills

Cross-cultural collaboration

Organizational multitasking

Project alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business

Job description

Key responsibilities

Landing Pad Start-up Support (Core)

• Oversee the PIER71 Landing Pad — a structured soft-landing initiative enabling start-ups with promising technologies and clear commitment to access mentorship, fundraising, market entry, and ecosystem connectivity.
• Design and iterate offerings to drive start-up growth in key areas such as revenue, capital access, team, and market expansion.
• Analyse effectiveness of offerings against PIER71 outcomes (e.g. revenue growth, collaborations secured) and make recommendations for improvement.

Community Building

• Maintain and evolve the start-up engagement strategy and calendar across all PIER71 initiatives; grow start-up participation in mentorship, peer learning, and ecosystem events.
• Manage end-to-end relationships with Landing Pad start‑ups, ensuring strong participation & retention rates, high satisfaction, key metrics capture, and ultimately start-up growth.
• Support start-up onboarding/offboarding processes with Finance/Admin (documents, checklists, turnaround times).
• Landing Pad contributor management
• Grow and strengthen relationship with Landing Pad contributors (e.g. mentors, domain experts, consultants).
• Convert Landing Pad contributors into active inputs (mentoring hours, office hours, workshops, connections, investor readiness support).
• Equip and communicate regularly with Landing Pad contributors to ensure they can support effectively (e.g. materials are prepared and distributed in timely manner).

Manage regional partners and channels (Americas)

• Build relationship and partnerships with maritime-related entrepreneurship-support organisations (ESOs) and government‑linked entities via NUS Enterprise presence across both North & South America (i.e. BLOCK71 U.S.).
• Support the market entries of international start‑ups from the Americas (inbound) and market expansion of local start‑ups into the same regions (outbound).

• 3–5 years in startup ecosystem development or a related role
• Strong relational and communication skills to secure trust and buy‑in from multiple and cross cultural stakeholders (founders, mentors, investors, institutional partners)
• Strong organisational skills with ability to multitask from start to finish
• Clear experience in establishing alignment and attribution between start‑up support activities and organizational outcomes
• Team player who can galvanise support for owned initiatives and reciprocate across other initiatives/functions

Advantage:

• Familiarity with the maritime or deep‑tech sector
• Exposure to cross‑border startup support or market entry initiatives, preferably involving the Americas
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, or a related discipline

More Information

Job Type: 2-year Contract

Location:Kent Ridge Campus

Organization: NUS Enterprise

Department : Ecosystem Development

Job requisition ID : 33996