gener8tor’s turnkey platform for the creative economy connects startup founders, musicians, artists, investors, universities and corporations. The gener8tor platform includes pre-accelerators, accelerators, corporate programming, events and fellowships.
About the role
Do you know the water and ocean technology sector, and want to spend your time getting the best companies in it to market?? Do you want to support the best and brightest entrepreneurs tackling some of our biggest water challenges? Are you committed to providing opportunities across race, place and gender? If so, this position is for you!
What they're looking for
- Entrepreneurial spirit and a self-starter. Experience as a founder, employee in a venture-backed company. Operating experience inside a water or ocean technology company counts
- Comfort with capital-intensive hardware companies that have long development cycles, pilot-dependent sales, and regulatory exposure. Software-only backgrounds are not a fit for this portfolio
- Collaborative, team-based mindset. You will be working closely with other Managing Directors, founders, external program partners, and ecosystem stakeholders. You are expected to support the overall sustainability team
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly independent environment and juggle multiple ongoing projects, responsibilities and external relationships
- Willingness to intensively and rapidly dive deeper into the startup and venture capital communities even if already familiar
- Experience with federally funded programs is strongly preferred. This role carries real compliance responsibility under a NOAA cooperative agreement
More about this role
Do you know the water and ocean technology sector, and want to spend your time getting the best companies in it to market?? Do you want to support the best and brightest entrepreneurs tackling some of our biggest water challenges? Are you committed to providing opportunities across race, place and gender? If so, this position is for you!
gener8tor fosters innovation ecosystems through its accelerator programs, venture capital funds, and skills-based workforce initiatives. With a strong track record of supporting high-growth companies, gener8tor has expanded across the U.S. and internationally, building partnerships with governments, corporations, universities and economic development organizations to drive entrepreneurship and economic impact. gener8tor operates accelerators across 50 cities, 32 states and 9 countries, working with more than 300 startups per year. To date, gener8tor has worked with more than 2,300 startups that have cumulatively gone on to raise more than $3B in financing and employ more than 15,600 people.
gener8tor is a nationally recognized startup accelerator and entrepreneurial support organization and is seeking a Managing Director (MD) to lead the Great...
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