Managing Director, Discovery and Insight

🔥 19 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $280k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

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TED Conferences

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Marketing • Travel

TED Conferences is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas through powerful talks that last 18 minutes or less. Founded in 1984, TED began as a conference intersecting Technology, Entertainment, and Design, but has expanded to cover a vast array of topics including science, business, and global issues. TED hosts a global community and provides a platform for TEDx events, allowing local communities to share ideas and knowledge. Through TED. com, the organization builds a repository of free knowledge from influential thinkers and encourages engagement and discussion among individuals who seek a deeper understanding of the world.

📋 Description

• Lead Audacious's global search for ambitious ideas and changemakers • Own end-to-end curation, application, and diligence activities • Develop and evolve sourcing and curation strategy for each funding cycle • Monitor emerging trends and innovations relevant to Audacious • Capture insights and lessons learned to improve annual sourcing and curation • Identify ideas for advancement into the application stage • Lead diligence on selected organizations, testing readiness, viability, and portfolio fit • Build evidence-based finalist recommendations including rationale and risks • Cultivate ongoing relationships with social-sector leaders, funders, intermediary partners, and sourcing networks • Represent Audacious's perspective in the field and create opportunities for sector collaboration • Lead and strategically resource the Discovery and Insight vertical • Develop team members who can source, conduct diligence, and manage partner relationships • Steward relationships and collaborate with year-round partners such as The Bridgespan Group

🎯 Requirements

• Experience setting strategy in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments • Ability to make consequential decisions grounded in clear principles and conviction • Strong generalist fluency across geographic, social-change, and innovation domains • Maturity and credibility to engage ultra-high-net-worth individuals, issue experts, and internal teams • Experience building and developing teams • Experience leading change-management efforts • Experience operating through influence across a senior leadership group • Access to and standing within social-change and social-innovation networks • Strong mission orientation and high-integrity leadership • Alignment with Audacious’ values • Creative, team-oriented, and collaborative approach • Intellectual curiosity and current knowledge of social change and emerging philanthropy trends • Ability to lead ways to evolve the organization’s work • Decisiveness without rigidity • Judgment to lead through influence rather than ownership • Strongly preferred: familiarity with funder-collaborative platforms and philanthropic sourcing/investment mechanisms • Strongly preferred: experience in multinational and culturally diverse organizations

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work option • Equal opportunity/affirmative action employment • Cover letter and resume submission accepted