Public Challenge Manager

MDIA is looking for a Program Manager, Public Challenges to play a pivotal role in overseeing our core program, the Public Innovation Challenge.

This person must possess the curiosity and rigorous strategic mindset required to recruit, identify, and assess emerging startups who are well positioned for procurement and commercial revenue opportunities. Additionally, this team member must leverage strong business and network development experience to build a local, national and international ecosystem of pipeline partnerships to enhance the quality of startups solutions submitted in response to each challenge. Experience operating within startups to drive meaningful strategies would be highly beneficial.

This person possesses the deep understanding and versatility to nimbly leap from the nuances of competitive landscape to deep technical topics, as necessary, with the fearlessness to engage comfortably with the most senior leaders or leading startups, investment firms, or large enterprise and institutional players.

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