The ideal candidate is a dynamic and entrepreneurial-minded individual who has experience within both multinationals and the startup ecosystem alike. The successful candidate shall join our team in building impactful companies towards environmental sustainability in a fast-moving environment.
The candidate will:
- Support the Programme Director with programme design, founder selection, coaching, guiding, and facilitating of internal and external venture teams in a structured and organised manner;
- Deliver all content with high quality and speed
- Leads EIR (entrepreneur-in-residence) coaching sessions as well as actively support venture teams with material contribution to their business growth through knowledge, network and resources
- Conducts weekly 1-on-1s with venture teams to ensure venture teams are on track and are following programme milestones diligently
- Take full responsibility to support each venture’s journey from founder matchmaking to seed funding
- Joins community, networking and/or innovation-related events to build up the SDTA brand through external engagements
- Contributes to building Singapore's thriving and connected innovation ecosystem
Personal Attributes
- Has an insatiable curiosity to gain knowledge across all innovation-related subjects
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment and is able to execute various tasks with speed, accuracy and excellence
- Able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort
- Plan, organise, and schedule meetings and activities in an efficient manner
- Move quickly and take a firm stand without being overly aggressive
- Follow through on commitments and live up to verbal and written agreements
- Not let important details slip through the cracks
- Act without being told and demonstrate tenacity and willingness to get things done
- Exhibit passion and excitement for work
- Have excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and creative problem-solving skills
- Be able to convince others to pursue a course of action without being salesy
- Like reaching out to peers, both in-person and remotely, and cooperating with supervisors
- Ideally has experience in client-facing roles in either startups or large corporate environments
- Be a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident of Singapore with at least two years of experience in go-to-market and/or project management
- The ideal candidate has a bachelor degree related to business or innovation management
- The ideal candidate has an understanding of innovation methodologies and practices such as: lean startup, customer discovery and development, pitching, (rapid) prototyping
