plugandplaytechcenter

plugandplaytechcenter

Ventures Associate

Bentonville, Arkansas

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Data AnalysisA/B TestingProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementCRMExcelSupply ChainRoboticsResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingPublic SpeakingOrganizational Skills

About the role

  • About Plug and Play Plug and Play is a global innovation platform that connects startups, corporations, and investors to create meaningful partnerships and accelerate technology adoption. Our mission is making innovation accessible anywhere and building the world's leading innovation platform.
  • About the role Plug and Play is hiring a highly structured, analytically rigorous, and entrepreneurial operator to support startup sourcing, market intelligence, problem decomposition, and innovation strategy in industrial technology domains. This role is designed for someone who can take ambiguous corporate problem statements, break them into clear

Responsibilities

  • What This Person Will Own
  • Create scoring models and ranking methodologies that support startup shortlisting, customer recommendations, and internal prioritization.

Requirements

  • Ability to turn messy qualitative information into usable taxonomies, models, and decision criteria.
  • Ability to scan and synthesize information from funding databases, startup materials, industry reports, CRM systems, and operator interviews.
  • Ability to evaluate companies across technical, commercial, and strategic dimensions.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple parallel projects in fast- moving environments.

Nice to have

  • The ideal candidate combines consulting-style problem solving, product thinking, market research discipline, and strong communication skills.
  • The person should be comfortable moving between corporate stakeholder discovery, startup evaluation, market landscaping, and recommendation development.
  • Translate broad corporate needs into structured problem statements by breaking workflows into jobs-to-be-done, bottlenecks, constraints, adoption friction, and value pools.
  • Conduct customer and stakeholder discovery through interviews with enterprise operators, business leaders, and startup teams
  • synthesize findings into crisp insights and opportunity hypotheses.
  • Produce high-quality deliverables including startup briefs, market landscapes, executive summaries, recommendation memos, and workshop materials..
  • Core Capabilities
  • Structured Problem Solving

Skills

  • Analytical & Strategic Skills

Company info

  • Strong judgment on how to convert market signals into actionable recommendations for enterprise customers.

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