Venture Manager (F/M/D)

Description

You're looking for a new challenge and more than just a job? You want to shape the future with us? Together with you, we want to further develop Campus Founders gGmbH.

As a Venture Manager, you'll be actively involved in driving our startups forward and leading them to success. With your experience, you speak the language of startups and know exactly what they need to succeed.

Your fields of action in a glance:

• You will be responsible for guiding and supporting our startup teams from problem-solution fit to product-market fit, as well as achieving initial revenues and/or financing.
• You coach, support, and assist our startups, helping them address weaknesses and connect with relevant resources.
• You are accountable for designing, implementing, and executing lean workshops, trainings, and programs, thereby supporting our founders on their journey from startup to successful market entry.
• You actively build close relationships within our community, to ensure that additional resources are available to us.
• You promote collaboration among the startup teams in our community and help spread success stories.
• You assist in identifying startups and connect them with suitable Campus Founders programs.
• You maintain strong relationships with our program alumni by providing them with updates on offerings and events from Campus Founders.
• You also maintain a presence at various events and cultivate a strong network with founders, startups, and other stakeholders.

You’re a good fit for us if you bring the following:

• You have experience in founding and/or developing a startup in its early stages.
• You possess coaching experience to share your knowledge and best practices with others.
• You have the desire to share your diverse experiences, such as customer or partner acquisition, as well as project management, with others.
• You see yourself as a full stack venture builder and bring knowledge from ideation to scaling startups.
• You bring an entrepreneurial mindset and methodological knowledge ("The Lean Startup", "Customer Centric Growth").
• You have a strong network in startup ecosystems and communities.
• You are customer-centric and have a hands-on mentality.
• You speak fluent English, with knowledge of German being advantageous.

What’s in it for you:

A wide-ranging area of work and responsibility with a very varied range of tasks:

• You will play a key role in the success of the next generation of successful startups.
• You will develop with us a first-class network of organizations and people in the startup world.
• You will be part of a passionate, energetic, diverse and international team in an exciting and fun environment.
• You will actively shape our curious, open-minded, productive and startup-friendly community.
• You will enjoy long-term personal development opportunities and a competitive salary.

We look forward to receiving your application! Become part of our Campus Founders Community and help us make Heilbronn a center of gravity for entrepreneurship.

About us

We are Campus Founders, the entrepreneurship and innovation center in Heilbronn. We train, support and promote startups in all phases of their development, we educate talents, inspire entrepreneurship and innovation. We score with a unique educational environment and an international network of universities, research and educational institutions, top institutes and numerous global market leaders. We act like a startup ourselves, are growing rapidly and have big plans. In Heilbronn, one of the most dynamic cities in Germany - in a place that is currently developing into Europe's most successful center for startups and entrepreneurship. You are curious, proactive and want more than just an exciting job? You want to help shape a great future? Welcome to the team!