Role Overview

- We are looking for a passionate Growth & Ecosystem Manager who can build partnerships, create opportunities, and grow the AWBM ecosystem.
- This is not a desk marketing role.
- You will represent AWBM, engage with diverse stakeholders, identify collaboration opportunities, and ensure the platform continuously attracts valuable projects, business challenges, innovations, startups, institutions, and success stories.
- Your mission is to help transform AWBM into a globally recognized innovation platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Educational Institution Partnerships
- Collaborate with engineering colleges, universities, management institutes, incubation centers, and research organizations to:
- Onboard institutions onto AWBM.
- Encourage faculty members to publish academic and industry-sponsored projects.
- Promote final-year projects, innovation challenges, hackathons, and research work.
- Build long-term institutional partnerships.
- Startup Growth & Enablement
- Engage with startups across different sectors to:
- Showcase their products and services on AWBM.
- Help them reach potential customers and enterprise buyers.
- Connect them with mentors, investors, and ecosystem partners.
- Support startups seeking funding, pilot customers, strategic partnerships, or market visibility.
- Enterprise Engagement
- Collaborate with MSMEs, corporates, and enterprises to:
- Publish business challenges and operational problems on AWBM.
- Encourage organizations to seek innovative, cost-effective solutions from students, researchers, startups, freelancers, and innovators.
- Promote open innovation and collaborative problem-solving.
- Entrepreneurship Promotion
- Promote AWBM among aspiring entrepreneurs by helping them:
- Discover validated business ideas and working prototypes.




- Identify cost-effective opportunities to launch their ventures.
- Connect with mentors, experts, collaborators, and investors.
- Participate in innovation programs and business networking activities.
- Skill Donation Initiative
- Lead the growth of AWBM''s Skill Donation Initiative by:
- Encouraging experienced professionals to donate their skills, knowledge, and mentorship.
- Increasing participation from industry experts and volunteers.
- Maximizing learning opportunities for students, job seekers, startups, and entrepreneurs.
- Building a culture of collaborative learning and knowledge sharing.
- Community & Ecosystem Growth
- Develop and grow communities of:
- Students
- Innovators
- Entrepreneurs
- Startups
- Businesses
- Mentors
- Investors
- Academic Institutions
- Industry Experts Create initiatives that increase collaboration and active participation across the platform.
- Success Story Development
- Identify and document inspiring stories, including:
- Startup growth journeys.
- Student innovations.
- Successful industry collaborations.
- Institutional achievements.
- Skill Donation impact stories.
- Business transformation case studies.
- Use these stories to strengthen the AWBM brand and inspire others.
- Platform Promotion
- Develop awareness campaigns highlighting how AWBM enables:
- Open Innovation
- Business Collaboration
- Startup Growth
- Academic-Industry Connections
- Entrepreneurship
- Research Commercialization
- Innovation Challenges




- Business Networking
- Skill Development 9.
- Strategic Partnerships
- Build partnerships with:
- Educational Institutions
- Startup Incubators
- Accelerators
- Government Bodies
- Innovation Councils
- Large Enterprises
- Industry Associations
- Investors
- CSR Organizations
- Skilled Communities 10.
- Global Expansion
- Support AWBM''s vision of becoming a global innovation platform by:
- Identifying international collaboration opportunities.
- Building relationships with overseas universities, innovation hubs, startups, and business communities.
- Promoting cross-border innovation and business collaboration.

Who Should Apply

- We are looking for someone who:
- Loves networking and building relationships.
- Can confidently engage with CXOs, founders, professors, students, and entrepreneurs.
- Thinks strategically while executing effectively.
- Is passionate about innovation, entrepreneurship, and ecosystem building.
- Can inspire people to join a larger mission.
- Is self-driven, proactive, and comfortable working independently.
- Success Metrics
- Your success will be measured by your ability to create measurable ecosystem growth, including:
- Number of educational institutions onboarded.
- Number of academic projects published.
- Number of startups actively using AWBM.
- Number of enterprise business challenges posted.
- Growth of the Skill Donation Initiative.
- Strategic partnerships established.
- Success stories published.
- Community growth and engagement.
- Growth in active platform users.
- Revenue opportunities generated through ecosystem partnerships.
- International collaborations initiated.
- Application Questions .

Location - Mumbai, Delhi / NCR, Bengaluru , Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Remote

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