Manage the PIER71 Landing Pad start-up program: design offerings, measure outcomes, build community engagement, manage contributor relationships, support onboarding/offboarding, and develop regional partnerships across the Americas to support market entry and expansion.
Key responsibilities
Requirements
Landing Pad Start-up Support (Core)
- Oversee the PIER71 Landing Pad — a structured soft-landing initiative enabling start-ups with promising technologies and clear commitment to access mentorship, fundraising, market entry, and ecosystem connectivity.
- Design and iterate offerings to drive start-up growth in key areas such as revenue, capital access, team, and market expansion.
- Analyse effectiveness of offerings against PIER71 outcomes (e.g. revenue growth, collaborations secured) and make recommendations for improvement.
Community Building
- Maintain and evolve the start-up engagement strategy and calendar across all PIER71 initiatives; grow start-up participation in mentorship, peer learning, and ecosystem events.
- Manage end-to-end relationships with Landing Pad start-ups, ensuring strong participation & retention rates, high satisfaction, key metrics capture, and ultimately start-up growth.
- Support start-up onboarding/offboarding processes with Finance/Admin (documents, checklists, turnaround times).
- Landing Pad contributor management
- Grow and strengthen relationship with Landing Pad contributors (e.g. mentors, domain experts, consultants).
- Convert Landing Pad contributors into active inputs (mentoring hours, office hours, workshops, connections, investor readiness support).
- Equip and communicate regularly with Landing Pad contributors to ensure they can support effectively (e.g. materials are prepared and distributed in timely manner).
Manage regional partners and channels (Americas)
- Build relationship and partnerships with maritime-related entrepreneurship-support organisations (ESOs) and government-linked entities via NUS Enterprise presence across both North & South America (i.e. BLOCK71 U.S.).
- Support the market entries of international start-ups from the Americas (inbound) and market expansion of local start-ups into the same regions (outbound).
Requirements
- 3–5 years in startup ecosystem development or a related role
- Strong relational and communication skills to secure trust and buy-in from multiple and cross cultural stakeholders (founders, mentors, investors, institutional partners)
- Strong organisational skills with ability to multitask from start to finish
- Clear experience in establishing alignment and attribution between start-up support activities and organizational outcomes
- Team player who can galvanise support for owned initiatives and reciprocate across other initiatives/functions
Advantage:
- Familiarity with the maritime or deep-tech sector
- Exposure to cross-border startup support or market entry initiatives, preferably involving the Americas
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Entrepreneurship, or a related discipline
Please be informed that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
More Information
Job Type: 2-year Contract
Location: Kent Ridge Campus
Organization: NUS Enterprise
Department : Ecosystem Development
Job requisition ID : 33996
NUS Enterprise Singapore Office
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