Senior Manager/Manager, Venture and Incubation Experience (Contract)

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading university seeks a Venture Partner to support student innovators in transforming their ideas into real-world solutions. This role involves guiding teams, coordinating grants, and managing programs within an entrepreneurial ecosystem, fostering collaboration and innovation across diverse disciplines.

Qualifications

• 6 to 8 years of prior experience in start-ups or the start-up community preferred.
• Able to articulate ideas well both verbally and in writing effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support and guide student teams on capstone and micro-innovation projects.
• Coordinate relevant grant applications and mentoring support for teams.
• Organize workshops and events for design innovators.

Skills

Communication

Self-starter

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Degree in any discipline

Job description

SUTD’s Venture and Incubation Experience (VIE) Office is where innovation and cutting-edge technology address society’s challenges. We offer a spectrum of innovation, entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation programmes and ecosystem support to students, researchers and alumni.

Many problems in our society require human-centred design thinking and AI powered solutions. This role offers an opportunity for you to support and work with undergraduate, post-graduate students and alumni to transform their design-centred technology into real-world solutions under the Design Innovation and Venture Experience (DIVE) initiative. You will walk alongside the teams from inception till spin-off. If you have a strong interest in working with aspiring innovators and x-trapreneurs, learning about a wide range of revolutionary technology and solutions and have a thirst for creative solutions to address problems, look no further!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Venture Partner

• You will be supporting and guiding student teams on their capstone and micro-innovation projects through various stages of development to help them build their proof-of-concept and pilot their solutions.
• You will be the end-to-end partner for innovation teams. You will facilitate connections with partners in the startup ecosystem and industry contacts to help bring research teams and spin offs to the next stage of their journey.

Grant Coordination & Management

• You will facilitate and coordinate relevant grant applications. Primary responsibilities include guiding student teams in their grant proposals, sourcing and coordinating mentor support for teams, providing venture support, conducting grant briefings, partnering teams and tracking teams' progress in their milestones, disbursing grants and preparing grant reports.

Programme management

• You will organise and facilitate workshops, events, and networking sessions to develop design innovators and x-trapreneurs. This includes outreach and promoting participation in these programs and workshops. You will be working closely with colleagues and should be comfortable moving seamlessly between planning, content, and execution.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree in any discipline combined with an interest in technology
• Preferably 6 to 8 years of prior experience working in or with start-ups and the start-up community
• Able to articulate ideas well both verbally and in writing effectively
• Self-starter with a can-do attitude
• Comfortable with working in a lean team while receiving and rendering support from/to the rest of the team
• Comfortable with interacting with a wide variety of people