Key Responsibilities

• Framework & Strategy: Collaboratively build the framework and strategy to enable Startup India on its the path for the next decade of supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in India. Develop and implement a robust strategic roadmap aligned with national growth objectives to foster a thriving startup ecosystem.
• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive strategic plan for the investment & growth of startups and related stakeholders, aligned with the government's innovation and economic growth objectives. Define clear goals, KPIs, and milestones to measure the success and impact of the initiatives and functions.
• Collaboration across Spectrum: Collaborate with relevant government agencies, industry partners, and relevant ecosystem stakeholders to align strategies and secure necessary resources. Interlink with the National priorities and policies. Nurture and retain finest human capital with equity, inclusion and diversity as core tenets.
• Global Ecosystem Connects: Develop and execute strategies to expand the influence and reach internationally, building partnerships and collaborations with other startup ecosystems, governments, academia, and international organizations. Drive efforts to attract international startups to the program, fostering cross-border collaboration and innovation. Build and enable Global support strategies for Indian startups. Increase trade opportunities between global ecosystems.
• Build and scale sectoral startup ecosystems: Create, evolve and identify sectoral startup strategies aligned to National growth sectors. Build and scale startup ecosystems at a sectoral level to drive investments and innovation into priority sectors bringing the entire value chain for scale. The focused sectors for this role may be in the areas of but not limited to Healthcare, Pharma, Life sciences, Education, Insurance, Medical Devices, White Goods, Food Processing, Ports / Shipping / Waterways, Road Transport and Highways, Infrastructure, Marine, Climate / Sustainability, Defence and Emerging Technologies. Identify the bottlenecks for global competitiveness and work towards collaboration with the ecosystem constituents both locally and globally to identify new business models and innovation. Build strategies to address India’s local and societal needs aligned with India’s national interests. Scale strategies to address India for India and for catering to world opportunities as well.
• Stakeholder Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with government officials, industry leaders, venture capitalists, angel investors, and academia to foster a supportive ecosystem for startups. Actively listen to the voice of the ecosystem through both structured and unstructured mechanisms to help identify and prioritize areas that would not just have maximum impact but also align with our vision towards inclusive growth.
• Knowledge management: Be part of the team that identifies and engages with key stakeholders in the ecosystem across all the personas to gather ideas / knowledge that could help formulate a “Knowledge / Idea bank” and also conduct necessary primary and secondary research for each strategic initiative.  This would include but not be limited to the feedback received from the various existing programs done by Startup India