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The Opportunity
Highline Beta builds and funds ventures in collaboration with global corporate enterprises across a variety of industries. In some cases we incubate new startups from the outside and in others we support internal corporate innovation ventures. For example, we've helped RBC Ventures launch 10+ new ventures in-market across multiple verticals. This has involved doing early validation work into opportunities, mockups and early prototyping, roadmap support and strategic coaching.
As Senior Client Strategy Director, you'll wear many hats: account management, strategic coaching, product, business model design and more. Our work is varied (and sometimes chaotic!) so you should love jumping from the 20,000 ft view to the 2 ft view, every day, multiple times per day. This is a hands on role that's perfect for a doer with corporate experience ("in the boardroom") and startup experience ("where the bullets are flying").
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Become a trusted advisor to our corporate clients, managing the day to day relationship while supporting them on their long term innovation journey
- Provide strategic coaching for potential and ongoing innovation opportunity areas
- Lead and facilitate workshops / bootcamps to teach Lean, User Centered Design and Agile methodologies
- Identify new working opportunities; then design, estimate, and propose projects for them
What you'll need
Qualifications
Required
- 2+ years of hands on experience building startup businesses or products
- 5+ years experience working within or consulting for large corporates at a senior level
- High intellectual curiosity and emotional empathy for our clients
- Strong business acumen; able to envision and drive excitement for new opportunities
- Interest and experience working in a broad set of industries / verticals
- Excellent communication skills, able to command a room of executives
- A keen interest in new innovation methodologies / frameworks and a desire to always stay ahead of the curve with knowledge of them
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to meet clients
Desired
- A strong network within the corporate innovation community
- Experience founding or co-founding a venture profile startup
- Experience advising or investing in startups
We're looking for
Core Skills
A little bit about us
Highline Beta
At Highline Beta, we celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations and will work with you to meet your needs. If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the application process, please don't hesitate to reach out!
Are you interested?
Work With Us
At Highline Beta we build businesses. In some cases we support clients doing so organically, in other cases we create new startups solving real problems that matter and help great founders launch and scale. You'll have an opportunity to work with a deeply passionate and skilled team that cares about making the world a better place. You'll get to learn from a diverse team of investors, entrepreneurs, designers, product managers and more. You'll be challenged daily to push yourself, gain new skills, practice and teach the ones you're already an expert in, and help everyone -- yourself, your team, our clients and our collaborators -- win.