Managing Director
gener8tor operates accelerator programs that provide startups with capital, mentorship, coaching, network connections, and community support. It also offers skills, creative, sustainability, and corporate innovation programs for startups, career seekers, artists, corporations, and investors.
About gener8tor
gener8tor is an accelerator and investment organization running investment-for-equity accelerators, free pre-accelerators, skills accelerators, creative accelerators, and sustainability-focused programs. Its investment accelerators provide high-growth startups with $100,000, mentorship, commercialization guidance, and introductions to mentors, investors, corporate partners, and other experts. The organization serves startups, entrepreneurs, career seekers, artists, corporations, mentors, and investors across a global network of communities and programs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You recruit, evaluate, select, and invest in early-stage water technology and ocean enterprise startups. You run three accelerator cohorts, coach founders on financial modeling, go-to-market strategy, fundraising, and pitch decks, manage partners and reporting, support federal compliance, administer awards, engage NOAA and the IOOS community, and support alumni.
Requirements
- Experience in water, ocean, environmental, or adjacent hard-tech sectors
- Ability to evaluate sensing, autonomy, treatment, and remote sensing companies
- Experience as a founder or employee in a venture-backed company
- Operating experience in a water or ocean technology company
- Experience with capital-intensive hardware companies
- Knowledge of long development cycles
- Knowledge of pilot-dependent sales
- Knowledge of regulatory exposure
- Collaborative mindset
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to manage multiple projects and relationships
- Experience with federally funded programs preferred
- Knowledge of startup and venture capital communities
- Willingness to travel up to 25%
- Flexible schedule
- Interpersonal skills
- Relationship-building
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Commitment to equity
Responsibilities
- Recruit startup applicants
- Lead due diligence and selection for three cohorts
- Build the top-of-funnel
- Develop relationships with mentors and investors
- Coach founders on financial modeling, go-to-market strategy, fundraising positioning, and deck development
- Monitor startup progress after the program
- Build ecosystem partnerships
- Engage the Great Lakes water technology community
- Plan program logistics
- Execute accelerator programs
- Coordinate with gener8tor staff and external partners
- Manage external partner relationships
- Provide program updates and reporting
- Support TDC award allocation decisions
- Assist alumni with mentor, sponsor, and investor relations
- Support federal reporting obligations
- Conduct quarterly startup reporting
- Monitor subrecipients
- Administer Technology Development and Commercialization awards
- Represent the program with NOAA and the IOOS community
- Support broader gener8tor initiatives
