Job Description

Insignia Ventures Academy is Asia's first experiential Venture Capital 'VC' accelerator to nurture the next generation of leaders, investors and entrepreneurs.

Led by world-class VC and industry leaders, our 12-week immersive program is designed for aspiring venture capitalists, investors, fund managers, and ambitious founders where individuals will get to participate in investment committee meetings and invest in real-life businesses.

Individuals looking to break into VC will be given the opportunity to gain high quality investment experience through deal sourcing, conducting due diligence, navigating capital structure, participating in weekly investment committees, making 1-2 investments, and sharing in the financial upside on select deals with Insignia Ventures Partners. Find out more here: https://www.insignia.academy/

Job description

The Program Lead's role would focus on the ultimate goal of delivering successful programmes and initiatives. If you are someone that has a founder spirit with a product-first mindset, envisions a better future led by modern education experiences, is a self-starter that knows what "done is better than perfect" means, unafraid to roll up their sleeves and looks at challenges as problems to solve - this is probably the opportunity for you.

It is highly preferred that you have prior experience managing the full life cycle of recruitment for roles in the tech sector, and have managed teams in a goals-driven environment. Above all, you are high-energy and have a deep passion for the development of people, a growth mindset, and an excellent working attitude.

About the role:

The role of the Program Lead includes leading our programs end-to-end and has many aspects. Not all can be listed, but to give a rough idea of the role, here are some of the things that you will do:

• Managing P&L, and driving revenue and commercial targets
• Lead execution of cohort program and events, including marketing, mentor outreach and management, cohort hiring and management, overall logistics and post-event initiatives
• Develop and oversee program timeline and curriculum, end-to-end
• Lead sales and business development for program offerings
• Manage product launch, go-to-market execution, and PR/marketing efforts
• Formulate marketing initiatives for Insignia Ventures Academy to be top-of-mind brand recall
• Build partnerships with corporate partners in the VC and startup ecosystem to support scale and growth for founders in the region
• Create community initiatives designed to develop connections between members
• Facilitate and support virtual sessions on a weekly basis
• Build and manage remote team of program ops, designers and developers across 5 countries (Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam)
• Run weekly and monthly meetings with team to ensure open and clear communication levels are maintained and activities are in line with program / product objectives
• Other adhoc matters

The Must-Haves:

To succeed in this role, here are some of the qualities or skills we think you should have:

• 3 to 5 years experience in program management, delivery management or similar role Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong proficiency MS Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel
• A creative mind that thinks critically and continually exploring opportunities for collaboration to achieve win-win results
• Strong attention to detail and commitment with a focus on operational improvements and efficiency
• Strong interest and affinity to venture capital, early-stage investing, startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability
• Comfortable in ambiguity, where you'll often need to write the playbook, rather than follow an existing one. Helpful if you have experience getting projects off the ground
• Ability to work remotely, independently as well as in a team
• Experience navigating a highly cross-functional environment with multiple executive-level stakeholders
• Able to build relationships with partners and represent IVA in the ecosystem