Inception Community Manager, Accelerated Computing Startups

We are looking for a Startups Community Manager in London to join NVIDIA Inception - a virtual accelerator that supports startups harnessing NVIDIA GPUs, DPUs and software stack for accelerated computing. This community development role is for someone who is passionate about nurturing and building long-lasting partnerships with startups, VCs and other startup programs to grow NVIDIA platforms’ adoption across all verticals and the entire startup ecosystem! This includes a range of activities such as recruiting and onboarding startups as Inception Program members, nurturing members with program benefits, organizing, and speaking at events to educate the Inception community about NVIDIA technologies, sharing trends and insights into the local ecosystem and surfacing cutting edge startups to the wider organization. This person will report to the EMEA Inception lead and will work closely with a sizable cross-functional team within NVIDIA, including Inception, Solutions Architecture, Product Management, Sales and Marketing teams.

What you’ll be doing:

• You are the first point of contact for new startups interested in joining the Inception program

• Onboard and help startups understand and take advantage of program benefits

• Be the voice of the Inception members and become an expert in their needs and motivations. Develop a deep understanding of their goals, strategies, technical and business needs

• Provide Inception members with content and tools to educate them on NVIDIA’s solutions, for example through self-organized events and facilitate adoption of such resources

• Track startups progress and surface strategic companies for establishing a deeper technical and go-to-market collaboration

What we need to see:

• 2+ years of working experience in related fields such as startup accelerators and incubators, executive or management positions at startups, platform ecosystem development at big technology companies, venture capital

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• A strong affinity for technology and technical subjects

• Excellent interpersonal skills. Personable, friendly, and enjoy interacting with lots of people. This role will work with partners, NVIDIA internal teams, and thousands of startups

• Excellent communication and presentation skills. We are Inception’s advocates in front of startups and other players in the ecosystem

• Curious, creative, and constantly thinking about how to improve processes

• Ability to be proactive and work with minimal direction

• Good project management with excellent organizational skills

• Availability to travel domestically and internationally 10% of the time or less

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• You can proof extensive experience in certain industries or technologies (esp. LLM, GenAI, Computer Vision, Robotics)

• Existing professional network of corporate and political decision makers and startups communities in the UK

• Experience working at a top startup accelerator running, building, and managing the startup community and portfolio companies

• Validated capability to work in a collaborative, matrixed organization

• Passion for understanding and owning metrics and analytics and have a natural inclination to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of programs

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people on the planet working for us. If you are creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you. NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression , sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.