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Start Up Team Associate - Minneapolis, MN

Job Description:

OVERVIEW

The Co-Founder Team Associate is a part of the G-works organization, which is an internal start up accelerator that discovers and builds new business in high growth spaces. G-works employees work in ways that are not “business as usual,” challenging themselves and each other, using entrepreneurial skills and an experimental mindset to get to the commercial truth about disruptive market opportunities. This will be a very fast-paced test and learn environment, with rapid experimentation to validate or invalidate assumptions.

Associates work closely in a 4-member pod (Innovation coach, digital strategist, and entrepreneur-in-residence) to support the efforts of co-founder teams during their first year as they identify a consumer problem to solve and develop the solution to meet the consumers need. They work in collaboration with the innovation coach to design, develop, and execute experiments that enable co-founder teams to collect evidence to show they have identified a solution and business in which to build and invest.

The Associates also lead the project management tasks of the co-founder teams and assist with tracking, managing, and executing strategies and experiments. Seeking someone who is highly collaborative and passionate, willing to learn and apply lean, agile, and design thinking principles, and interested in creating structure in an ambiguous environment.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Lead executional project management tasks including timeline management, key experimentation tracking, budget management and tracking, and facilitating team meetings
Execute evidence-based learning, from writing screeners, recruiting consumers, and directing logistics of customer research, and tracking and documentation of outcomes
Support requests of the co-founder team to pull data from platforms including Pitchbook, Nielsen, and more, to ensure full team has performance data/summaries; also helps to gleans implications from data and reports
Navigates the GWorks organization, the internal team (Experimentation Lab), and other internal and external partners to secure people and their time to advance co-founders’ timelines
Actively participate in team meetings (daily stands up, weekly working sessions, research debriefs, pivot sessions, etc.)
Partner with innovation coach to proactively plan future steps and experiments for the team; the goal of the pod is to always be 3 steps ahead of the co-founder team
Other tasks as needed

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree
2+ years of experience post-undergrad
Highly motivated and action-oriented with strong problem solving and analytical skills
Strong project management and organizational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
Consumer-first mindset and experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Strong willingness and ability to collaborate across functions to advance initiatives
Track record of delivering on timeline while managing multiple projects with executional excellence
Highly adaptable to new methods and ways of working, highly collaborative putting team results over personal gain
Ability to influence others without formal authority
Ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation, high comfort operating in ambiguous and unregimented environments

Company Overview:

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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