Posted 3 years ago
Job Description :
Brief description of role: As a Consultant on the Incubator & Ventures Team, you will help accelerate how we explore emerging technologies and ecosystem partnerships to accelerate the build-out of our next wave of transformational marketplace offerings. You will support the team in both an advisory and execution capacity, spanning two primary domains: a) advising on the refinement and continuous improvement of our Incubator and Ventures operations; and b) executing on the sensing, scouting, and qualification of new ideas via internal incubation and/or ecosystem partnerships.
Key skills:
Must Have
- 3+ years experience working at a start-up, accelerator, incubator, and/or venture capital fund (i.e. exposure to program operations, governance, talent development, etc.)
- Practical experience with the Human Centered Design framework
- Rapid product development (i.e. define, ideate, prototype, test & refine)
- Marketplace research (i.e. competitive analysis, industry trends, consumer sentiment, etc.)
- Financial business cases development (i.e. addressable market, serviceable market, potential revenue streams, cost structure, etc.)
- Scouting and nurturing start-up partnerships
- Client interviews, testing, and field studies
- Developing idea pitchbooks, presenting, and cultivating buy-in amongst senior stakeholders
- Strong passion to explore emerging technologies and trends, and distilling learnings into potential high impact use cases
Nice to Have
- Progressing new insights, products, processes and strategies across a highly matrixed organization
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Previous success leading business, product, process and/or cultural transformation
- Strong strategically, but with an execution focus and results orientation
- An entrepreneurial drive, someone who is genuinely interested in and/or getting involved in new ventures
- Curious, eager to learn, and self-motivated