Program Manager - Cox Cleantech Residency powered by gener8tor

Program Manager - Cox Cleantech Residency powered by gener8tor

Location: Atlanta, GA

Salary: $70,000 - $80,000

Description

Are you ready to work with the best and brightest researchers and early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs? Do you get excited about helping deep tech innovators build from the ground up? 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 45 cities, 25 states and 3 countries, working with more than 300 startups per year. To date, gener8tor has worked with more than 2,000 startups that have cumulatively gone on to raise more than $2.9B in financing and employ more than 14,000 people.

gener8tor is a nationally recognized startup accelerator and entrepreneurial support organization. The Program Manager will manage the Cox Cleantech Residency, a multi-week intensive program designed to take cleantech researchers and entrepreneurs from zero to one. This program is supported by Cox Enterprises and focuses on recruiting postdoctoral researchers, PhD candidates, and early-stage founders from Southeastern universities and research labs to build the foundational infrastructure they need to launch.

The Program Manager will support one program per year, recruit and select participants, execute programming focused on customer discovery, grant readiness, and legal/financial infrastructure, provide coaching, and build networking opportunities with the cleantech ecosystem. Throughout the year, the Program Director will support the broader Cox Cleantech Accelerator team with recruitment, alumni engagement, showcase events, and ecosystem building activities in Atlanta and across the Southeast. 

As a member of the gener8tor team, you will play a crucial role in our global platform. The full gener8tor platform connects startup founders, musicians, researchers, artists, investors, universities and corporations and includes pre-accelerators, accelerators, corporate programming, conferences and fellowships. Your support as the Cox Cleantech Residency PM will impact startups by working specifically with researchers and founders in collaboration with a network of partners, mentors, investors, and university stakeholders.

Success for the PM looks like owning all aspects of the program logistics and operations, including the operational elements of recruiting and selecting the best researchers and founders from Southeast universities, coordinating weekly program sessions focused on ICP development, grant preparation, incorporation, financial setup, and infrastructure building, planning cohort community-building events, and leading planning of the end-of-program showcase event. You will coordinate program logistics under the guidance of your manager and the Cox Cleantech team, and will collaborate across the organization with gener8tor's centralized support teams and the broader gener8tor Sustainability Team.

Responsibilities

Recruitment and Base Building:

• Recruit startup applicants from Southeast universities, research institutions, etc, with a focus on postdocs, PhD researchers, and early-stage founders, and assist with selection process for the annual cohort
• Build relationships with university technology transfer offices, research labs, and faculty across the Southeast
• Find and develop relationships with mentors, grant advisors, investors and other cleantech ecosystem partners in Atlanta who can help support the program and participating companies
• Attend office hours with researchers and early-stage founders
• Lead base building efforts, attending meetings with key university partners, investors, and mentors to ensure consistent support of the Cox Cleantech Residency

Execute Residency Programs:

• In partnership with the Managing Director and Program Director, manage logistics and ensure the operational success of all aspects of the Cox Cleantech Residency
• Ensure all program KPIs are met
• Actively plan and participate in all aspects of the residency program including, but not limited to recruitment, team sessions, infrastructure workshops (ICP development, grant readiness, incorporation, financial/legal setup), networking events, and showcase planning
• Coordinate with subject matter experts and service providers for specialized curriculum content
• Help refine the playbook for future cohorts in the years to come
• Continuously support Cox Cleantech Residency and gener8tor alumni
• Be the #1 cheerleader for the Southeast cleantech ecosystem and the researchers and entrepreneurs we work with

Measure and Report Program Metrics and Operations:

• Work with cohort participants and alumni to gather and track data and metrics related to the progress and outcomes of the startups
• Gather and track data and metrics related to the progress and outcomes of the program
• Analyze and report data and metrics to the Cox Cleantech MD and PM, and in turn Cox Enterprises and gener8tor broadly

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Manage relationships with Cox Enterprises and university partners
• Attend regular meetings between gener8tor and partners
• Provide weekly update reporting

Community Involvement:

• Represent gener8tor and Cox Cleantech Residency in the Atlanta and Southeast communities
• Actively participate in the cleantech and university entrepreneurship ecosystems by attending events and building relationships

gener8tor Support:

• Collaborate with other members of the gener8tor team to support our national programs and sustainability initiatives

Requirements

• Experience with operations, logistics, program/project management and/or documentation is required
• Past experience as a program/project manager, in supporting an accelerator, incubator, university entrepreneurship program, or venture fund is recommended
• Experience with or strong interest in working with researchers, scientists, or university communities
• Entrepreneurial spirit and a self-starter
• Total devotion to and a willingness to intensively and rapidly dive deeper into the Atlanta cleantech and Southeast university ecosystems, even if already familiar
• Collaborative, team-based mindset. You will be working closely with other Program Managers, Managing Directors, founders, researchers, external program partners, university stakeholders, and ecosystem partners
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly independent environment and juggle multiple ongoing projects, responsibilities and external relationships
• Flexibility to travel up to 25% (primarily across Southeast universities)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to see genius in every community. A commitment to equity across race, place and gender

• See genius in every community. Across race, place and gender, we believe the company has a chance to accomplish a generational challenge in bridging genius with opportunity.
• Never self-defeat and have a "play to win" mentality. We revolve everything we do around helping the entrepreneurs in our programs.
• Are curious. We work hard to find hidden gems others overlook.
• Believe no job is beneath us. We wipe down the tables and load up the U-Hauls with enthusiasm. Work as a team to get $#!^ done!
• Strive for "that guy emailed me." Based on a story from our founders, we share a commitment to take a bottom-up approach to building strong, personal, 1-1 relationships. We believe that the best way to quality is through quantity.

Our values are core to how we work. If they don't resonate with you, this role might not be the right fit.

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