Community Program Manager

Summary

Join Techstars as a Program Manager to lead the delivery of the Techstars Founder Catalyst program and Startup Weekends in Tuscaloosa. This 1-year contract role involves managing program delivery teams, building partner relationships, and ensuring program objectives are met. You will onboard and train teams, monitor key metrics, and manage program budgets. The role requires strong communication and public speaking skills, experience in program management, and a familiarity with the startup ecosystem. Success in this position will contribute to Techstars' growth and expansion efforts. Compensation is $50,000-$70,000.

Requirements

• 3+ years of program or customer success experience in fast-paced environments within technology, startups, entrepreneurship and/or venture capital
• High attention to detail and is resourceful & organized
• Experience creating and managing program timelines and plans
• Experience supporting sales activities and managing partner relationships with large corporations
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and visual); comfortable communicating with both entrepreneurs and corporate partners; charismatic, enjoys building new relationships
• Strong public speaking skills
• Experience managing program delivery teams
• Fits closely with the Techstars’ culture (#givefirst, Entrepreneurial Inclination, High Quality and Network Focused)
• High emotional intelligence
• Experience working in a diverse, distributed team; comfortable with remote work

Responsibilities

• Manage partner relationships for Founder Catalyst and Startup Weekend engagements. This includes holding regular meetings, setting agendas and reporting on program results
• Manage Founder Catalyst and Startup Weekend program delivery teams including hiring, onboarding and training in partnership with leadership
• Drive speaker recruitment, mentor recruitment, leading masterclass, running program kickoff calls, attending networking events, and any other programmatic elements as deemed necessary
• Monitor delivery teams to ensure key metrics are being tracked and reported, program management systems are being utilized, and program timelines are being followed
• Manage program budgets and any vendor and contractor relationships
• Lead the handoff process from sales to delivery teams as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Based locally to the program in Tuscaloosa is a bonus

Benefits

$50,000 - $70,000