Business Incubator Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work with startups at the Centre according to the frameworks and mechanisms as outlined by the Incubator leadership team.
• Monitor business performance of portfolio start-ups, interface with other stakeholders, and provide industry connections.
• Regularly interact and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure program performance.
• Look for newer avenues of partnerships and bring the same to the leadership team for further action.
• Work towards overall startup community mobilization and outreach.
• Ensure that the program reaches out to relevant ecosystem stakeholders.
• Study key sectors and generate insights, use cases, and industry analyses for internal and external usage.
• Manage and support internal and external communication as needed for the program. This will also include maintaining communication with the media as and when required.
• Interact and maintain relationships with portfolio companies, mentors, and partners.
• Ensure preparation of necessary portfolio reports for both internal and external purposes.
• Ensure smooth day-to-day overall functioning of the incubator, by coordinating with Admin, Marketing, Design, HR, and other relevant team members.
• Actively participate in events, seminars, and workshops for building and sharing knowledge.
• Ensuring coordination with relevant team members within the organization.

Requirements:

• A highly motivated individual looking to work in the start-up ecosystem.
• Experience in leading/ coordinating key activities in an incubator/ accelerator.
• Prior experience as a startup founder or with a relevant VC/ Angel investment firm.
• Overall understanding of the start-up incubation process and related challenges.
• Strong execution skill set including a focus on decision making, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to drive rapid “learn and implement” iterations, strong bias for action, and outcomes-based orientation.
• Good overall leadership and networking skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and public speaking skills.