The Program Manager is responsible for the day to day tasks that their vertical faces in terms of scheduling deal flows between corporations and startups, planning events for networking, preparing monthly newsletters for their vertical, ordering swag and supplies for the team, and other essential duties as needed.
Corporate Facing
Organize deal flows between corporate partners and startups; this will require you to ping each corporate partner roughly six times per year
Assist Ventures team with the collection of feedback after each deal flow your vertical is responsible for
Reduce the amount of traffic from Director by answering questions from corporate partners and startups in a professional and friendly manner
Marketing
Prepare documents for major events
Coordinate a monthly newsletter with your team to keep entire network up to date on events
Identify relevant news on your vertical and pass along to Marketing to post on social media
Event Planning
Customize and prepare respective materials as they pertain to different events
Update Orientation packets for each new batch of startups
Schedule monthly team meetups
Confirm attending startups for the Summit event; gather all information for the Summit brochure regarding startups from your vertical;
record attendees from Eventbrite; prepare corporate nametags and essentials
Administrative
Update documents as changes occur
Order necessary materials and equipment and prepare purchase orders for accounting
Manage all calendar invites for events
Update HubSpot with vertical activity
Qualifications
Bachelor's / Master’s degree
Startup experience is a plus
Knowledge of clerical procedures such as word processing and record management
Knowledge of organizational strategies
Knowledge of computer systems and filtering through data
Attention to detail
Communication skills
Must be able to multi-task between projects
Critical thinking and problem solving
Ability to manage time between projects, team members, startups and corporate partners
Proactive self-starter who requires minimal supervision