Managing Director
Are you ready to guide visionary scientists and engineers into entrepreneurship? Step into a role where your mentorship will accelerate deep-tech innovations with global impact.
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- Dir/VP/Head Of
- Hybrid
- Engineering
- New York, NY
About Activate
Activate empowers scientists and engineers to reinvent our world by bringing their research to market. We partner with leading funders and research institutions to offer the Activate Fellowship, providing the funding, community, mentorship, network, and time that scientists need to become entrepreneurs.
The results are game changing: Activate Fellows have launched 197 new companies since 2015. These companies have raised $4B in follow-on funding, created more than 2,800 U.S.-based jobs, and defined several new market categories. Activate supports fellows in Berkeley, CA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Houston, TX; and across the U.S. through Activate Anywhere.
What You Will Do
Activate is looking for a Managing Director to mentor a community of Activate Fellows in the New York area by serving as their primary entrepreneurial advisor.
In this role, you will drive key fellowship programmatic efforts, lead the selection of new fellows each year, and connect your community of fellows with resources, support, and each other to enable their entrepreneurial success.
This role will be responsible for representing the New York fellow community to the larger Activate Global team and to external stakeholders across academia, industry, finance and government. The Managing Director will report to Activate’s Interim Chief of Science Strategy. Join us as we work to create the world’s leading platform supporting the earlier stages of science entrepreneurship!
Who You Are
The ideal candidate brings entrepreneurial experience in hard tech or deep tech—whether as a founder or early startup leader—and thrives on waking up each day asking, “How can I help our fellows succeed?”
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Generous health care coverage for employees and dependents
- Annual wellness stipend
- 401(k)
Ready To Make An Impact?
Encouraging Applications from All Backgrounds. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming workplace for all employees. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Activate Global, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.