- Experience
- 10+ yrs
- Salary
- —
- Openings
- 1
- Posted
- 1 week ago
- Work mode
- In office
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- Required to apply
Where you'll work
Job description
About NUS Enterprise
NUS Enterprise embodies the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit of the National University of Singapore, supporting transformative and ambitious ventures poised to reshape how we live and work worldwide.
Role Overview
As Market Discovery Lead for the Logic track, you will act as a vital link within a global innovation ecosystem. You will gather market insights, nurture relationships, and introduce external perspectives to bolster NUS Enterprise's technology translation and commercialisation efforts in AI, computing, software and control systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain trusted partnerships with leaders, investors, operators, government bodies, and other ecosystem participants relevant to the Logic domain.
- Maintain an up-to-date understanding of market demands, technological trends, investment landscapes, customer challenges, and competitive environments.
- Interpret ecosystem conversations and identify emerging patterns, opportunities, and risks.
- Provide actionable market intelligence to guide decisions on opportunity assessment, intellectual property strategies, funding, venture creation, licensing, partnerships, and portfolio management.
- Facilitate valuable introductions between NUS Enterprise team members and external stakeholders to support commercial outcomes.
- Support validation of commercial hypotheses by identifying key individuals to interview, framing questions appropriately, and interpreting feedback contextually.
- Collaborate across global nodes, share insights and resources, and cultivate a global commercialisation network.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of pertinent experience in areas such as market discovery, corporate innovation, business development, or venture creation.
- Demonstrated ability to foster relationships with senior stakeholders in mature innovation ecosystems.
- Strong commercial acumen with skill to differentiate significant market signals from noise.
- Excellent listening, inquisitiveness, and synthesis capabilities to convert varied inputs into strategic insights.
- Collaborative and humble mindset, prioritizing collective success and knowledge sharing.
- Comfort operating autonomously in a distributed context, yet aligned with organizational goals.
- Proven capacity to influence complex ecosystems with diverse stakeholder incentives.
- Systems thinking to connect multiple facets of the commercialisation journey.
- Technical fluency in AI, computing, software and control systems.
- Experience supporting early-stage technologies through customer engagement and market validation.
Additional Advantages
- Advanced degree such as MS, PhD, MBA, or MD.
- Experience spanning multiple innovation ecosystems or international markets.
- History as a founder, investor, product leader, or ecosystem developer.
- Familiarity with university technology transfer, licensing, public sector innovation, or translational research.
Why Join Us
This unique role offers unparalleled opportunity to shape Asia’s innovation future from Singapore with global impact, engaging technology, entrepreneurship, and investment.
Submit your resume and share your motivations and vision to contribute with us.