Managing Director, Discovery and Insight

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $280k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

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TED Conferences

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51 - 200 employees

TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

📋 Description

• Set and evolve the sourcing and curation strategy. • Advance sourcing and curation strategy for each cycle, forming a clear point of view on where Audacious should be learning, looking, collaborating, and why, ultimately carrying that strategy forward across cycles • Develop a “future-oriented” approach by monitoring and anticipating emerging trends and innovations that Audacious actively engages with or responds to • Actively capture insights and lessons learned to refine and improve Audacious's sourcing and curation activities annually • Lead selection and diligence. • Apply the sourcing and curation strategy to identify the ideas most worth Audacious's attention - deciding what advances into the application stage, and bringing along multiple stakeholders and inputs along that decision-making process • Lead diligence on selected organizations, rigorously testing readiness, viability, and fit within Audacious's portfolio • Build the recommendation — evidence, rationale, and risks included — that carries an idea into finalist selection • Cultivate and steward the partners who bring ideas to Audacious. • Surface strong ideas by building genuine, ongoing relationships with social sector leaders, including funder and intermediary partners (incl. sourcing networks, collaboratives, and others) • Steward key partner relationships by developing a deep understanding of each stakeholder’s goals, priorities, and aspirations • Maintain stakeholder relationships continuously, within and across cycles, to ensure trust and rapport among all actors • Represent Audacious's point of view in the field, using that standing to draw the most ambitious organizations and ideas toward the platform and to create richer opportunities for sector collaboration • Build and nurture a team that explores the frontier of audacious social change. • Lead the Discovery and Insight vertical and its resourcing strategically, matching capacity to where the real work sits and bringing in the right technical expertise when needed • Develop people who can source, diligence, and hold partner relationships credibly in their own right — building a team of strong practitioners so Audacious's discovery capacity grows beyond any single person • Effectively steward relationships and actively collaborate with key Audacious partners (e.g., The Bridgespan Group) with whom we partner year-round

🎯 Requirements

• A leader who has set strategy in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, and who can hold their own in rooms both with ultra-high net worth individuals and issue experts and with their own team, making consequential decisions grounded in clear principles and with conviction • Strong generalist fluency across geographic, social-change and innovation domains with the maturity and credibility to engage experts across them • Experience building and developing teams, leading change management efforts, and operating through influence across a senior leadership group • Access to, and standing within, networks across the social-change and social-innovation ecosystem • Familiarity with multiple models across the sector — funder-collaborative platforms and other philanthropic sourcing and investment mechanisms • Experience in multinational and culturally diverse organizations