Innovation Scientist- Startup Incubation
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Tandemlaunch · Montréal, Qc, CanadaPrepare for this interview
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About the role
We're hiring an Innovation Scientist to help turn early-stage university research into investable companies. Working alongside founders and TandemLaunch executives, you'll own the narrative and external positioning for 1-2 new ventures per year from pre-incorporation through their first institutional round - shaping their demo storyline, customer and investor materials, and co-leading the search for each venture's founding CEO. This role will shape the ventures we capitalize and how they're positioned in the market and investors.
Responsibilities
- Own the pitch storyline for each venture - the live narrative we use with investors and strategic partners, investor days, and customer meetings. Drive timelines, manage milestones, and ensure each gate is hit.
- Craft customer and investor-facing materials - executive summaries, white papers, pitch decks, demo videos - working directly with researchers to translate deep tech into "why now" and "who cares."
- Co-lead the founding CEO search for each new venture alongside TandemLaunch executives. You'll source through TandemLaunch's 15-year-deep operator network, screen for venture-specific fit, and shepherd the hiring process through. By year two, you'll have helped place 2-3 founding CEOs.
- Contribute to portfolio-wide initiatives (investor events, demo days, pitch coaching) as needed.
Requirements
- Storytelling chops - you've turned complex technical work into a narrative that landed with non-technical audiences.
- Strong written and verbal communication in English, with the ability to translate technical depth into clear narrative for non-technical investors and customers.
- Self-directed and energized by ambiguity - comfortable defining your own work when the brief is incomplete.
- Genuine curiosity and an appetite for breadth - you'd rather go an inch deep across five domains than a mile deep in one.
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Additional Information
About TandemLaunch TandemLaunch is a unique Canadian venture studio. Since 2010, we've created 30+ deep-tech ventures with a combined portfolio value exceeding $700M. We focus on commercializing innovations in consumer electronics, hardware-enabled technologies, machine learning, and embedded systems, working directly with researchers from major university labs.
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