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About the Role

The Fellowship Manager, New York, is the strategic and operational program lead for Activate's New York community, supporting a cohort of scientist-entrepreneurs. This role combines founder support, community building, operational excellence, ecosystem engagement, and team leadership to help fellows successfully commercialize transformative technologies.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end fellow experience, including the strategy and health of the Activate New York community.
• Direct New York community programming, including bi-weekly in-person programming and quarterly virtual programming.
• Manage local program operations, including fellow selection, onboarding, data, and benefits.
• Manage the Fellowship Associate to ensure high-performance execution of local community operations and support their professional development.
• Partner with the Managing Director to provide targeted support to New York fellows.
• Oversee community budgeting, strategy, team meetings, and team-wide coordination.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate fellowship insights and stories into strategies that amplify organizational impact.
• Contribute to broader Fellowship team-wide initiatives, operations, and cross-functional working groups.
• Oversee and coordinate ecosystem events hosted by Activate in New York.
• Represent Activate across New York's hard tech innovation ecosystem by cultivating partnerships, engaging alumni, and participating in recruitment and industry events.
• Champion a positive, welcoming environment while contributing to the wider Activate culture.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience, including at least 1 year supporting scientists, research, hard tech, or entrepreneurship.
• Experience with community building.
• Experience facilitating personal connections, collaborations, and mutual support within a community.
• Organized and prepared.
• Ability to manage a complex program through changing external circumstances.
• Proactively collects and analyzes data to drive continuous improvement.
• Eager and capable of gathering the shared challenges of entrepreneurs and translating them into programming.
• Communicates nuanced information clearly in any context.
• Excited to grow skills as a manager and help others reach their full potential.
• Switches smoothly between collaboration and individual work, words and numbers, strategic and nitty-gritty tasks.
• Passionate about building entrepreneurial ecosystems and supporting hard-tech founders.
• Loves science and is ready to learn a lot of it.

Skills

• Community building
• Program management
• Founder support
• Ecosystem engagement
• Team leadership
• Budgeting
• Data analysis
• Communication
• Management

Location

• New York City

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 4+ years of professional experience
• 1+ year supporting scientists, research, hard tech, or entrepreneurship

Salary/Compensations

• $100,000

Benefits

• Professional development
• $2,000 in annual wellness funds
• Flexible paid time off
• Healthcare coverage for employees and dependents (90–100% of premiums covered)
• Retirement plan with a 3% match beginning after 3 months

About the Company

• Activate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to turning scientific discoveries into real-world impact.
• Builds the cross-sector ecosystem that drives hard tech innovation—equipping scientists and engineers with world-class resources, training, and community to bring their work from discovery to deployment.
• Supports fellows across the United States, who have launched more than 275 companies and secured over $5.5 billion in follow-on funding.
• Expanding beyond its flagship program to reach scientists and engineers at more stages of their entrepreneurial journey across the world.

Equal Opportunity

• We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming workplace for all employees.
• All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
• We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
• Activate Global, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.