(33692) Market Discovery Lead (Matter)

The Role: Great innovations rarely succeed in isolation. They succeed because they connect with real needs, credible customers, experienced operators, strategic partners, investors, and markets at the right time. As a Market Discovery Lead, you'll serve as NUSX's representative, relationship builder, intelligence gatherer, and connector within one of our Global Nodes. You'll develop trusted relationships, listen for market signals, surface emerging opportunities, and help colleagues access the people, organisations, and insights they need to make better commercialisation decisions. This is a high-autonomy, high-trust role. You will not manage a large local team, but you will manage critical relationships. You'll be expected to operate independently in your ecosystem while remaining deeply integrated with colleagues in Singapore and across other Global Nodes. Success depends not only on the strength of your network, but on how generously and effectively that network is shared for the benefit of the organisation. Think of it as being a node in a global network. You help ensure that insight, relationships, and opportunities discovered in one part of the world strengthen the entire NUSX commercialisation system.

What You'll Do: Build Trusted Ecosystem Relationships Represent NUSX within the assigned Global Node and build trusted relationships across the regional innovation ecosystem. Engage selectively with leaders, investors, operators, corporate partners, ecosystem builders, government agencies, and other stakeholders relevant to the Matter track. Develop a practical understanding of who matters in the ecosystem, what they care about, where expertise sits, and how to access credible market signal quickly. Generate Market and Ecosystem Intelligence Maintain a live view of market needs, technology trends, investment activity, industry priorities, customer pain points, adoption barriers, competitive dynamics, and strategic white spaces relevant to the assigned track. Listen carefully across ecosystem conversations to identify meaningful signals, recurring patterns, emerging opportunities, and potential risks. Translate market intelligence into clear, practical insights that may inform opportunity selection, IP strategy, translational funding, venture creation, licensing, partnership development, or portfolio management decisions. Connect People, Insight, and Opportunity Facilitate high-value introductions between NUSX colleagues and relevant external stakeholders, including potential customers, design partners, licensees, strategic partners, investors, advisors, mentors, and collaborators. Help colleagues access the market perspectives, external expertise, and ecosystem relationships needed to advance commercialisation activities. Support early validation of commercial assumptions by identifying the right people to speak with, the right questions to ask, and the right context for interpreting market feedback. Strengthen the Global Node Network Remain actively integrated with NUSX colleagues despite geographic separation, participating in team discussions, portfolio reviews, opportunity assessments, and knowledge-sharing activities. Share relationships, intelligence, and opportunities proactively across the organisation, treating networks and market knowledge as institutional assets rather than personal assets. Collaborate with other Global Nodes to identify cross-market patterns, compare ecosystem signals, and strengthen NUSX's global commercialisation intelligence. What You Bring 10+ years of relevant experience in market discovery, commercial strategy, venture building, product strategy, corporate innovation, business development, technology commercialisation, ecosystem development, investment, or related fields. Deep experience ope