Program Manager - gener8tor Investment Accelerator Oklahoma City

Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Salary: $60,000-$70,000

Description

gener8tor runs accelerators and venture capital funds to catalyze community, mentorship, network, conviction and capital to bridge a community’s genius with opportunity. The gener8tor platform includes pre-accelerators, accelerators, corporate programming, conferences and fellowships. gener8tor operates venture capital funds and startup accelerators across 45 cities, 25 states and 3 countries, working with more than 300 startups per year. To date, gener8tor has worked with more than 1,500 startups that have cumulatively gone on to raise more than $2B in follow-on capital and employ more than 11,000 people.

gener8tor seeks an accelerator Program Manager to join our rapidly growing team. This position will manage the day-to-day operations of the annual gener8tor Oklahoma City Accelerator and assist with other operations across all of gener8tor’s Oklahoma City programming. This includes recruiting and interviewing startups, organizing program kickoff events, coordinating weekly program events such as startup meetings, cohort community-building events, mentor networking events and organizing demo day events.

Responsibilities

• In partnership with the Managing Director, coordinate the logistics of all aspects of the gener8tor accelerator programs including recruitment, company selection and cohort programming.
• Actively participate in all aspects of the gener8tor accelerator programs including weekly team meetings.
• Be the #1 cheerleader for the gener8tor accelerator cohorts.
• Continuously support gener8tor accelerator alumni.
• Obsessively seek to improve program processes and grow the network of mentors, potential customers and investors.
• Actively participate in the startup ecosystem by attending events and building relationships.
• Support your gener8tor teammates across multiple programs.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial spirit and a self-starter.
• Total devotion to Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma City startup ecosystem.
• Collaborative, team based mindset. You will be working closely with the Managing Director, founders and our partners.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly independent environment and juggle multiple ongoing projects, responsibilities and external relationships.
• Willingness to intensively and rapidly dive deeper into the startup and venture capital communities even if already familiar.
• Flexibility to travel up to 25%, work some nights and weekends.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A “no job is beneath me” mentality.
• Commitment to equity across race, place and gender.

At gener8tor we…

• See genius in every community. Across race, place and gender, we believe the company has a chance to accomplish a generational challenge in bridging genius with opportunity.
• Never self-defeat and have a “play to win” mentality. We revolve everything we do around helping the entrepreneurs in our programs.
• Are curious. We work hard to find hidden gems others overlook.
• Believe no job is beneath us. We wipe down the tables and load up the U-Hauls with enthusiasm. Work as a team to get $#!^ done!
• Strive for “that guy emailed me.” We share a commitment to take a bottom-up approach to building strong, personal, 1-1 relationships. We believe that the best way to quality is through quantity.

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We strongly encourage candidates who are Black, indigenous, people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, those with previous felony convictions and others who identify as being from an underrepresented group to apply. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any of the above characteristics or others protected by law.

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