Innovation Scientist- Startup Incubation

TandemLaunch • Montreal, QC

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About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Technical fluency sufficient to hold a credible conversation with hardware engineers, ML researchers, and physicists.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in engineering or physics
• Research-track MSc plus deep-tech industry experience
• Engineering degree plus founding-team experience at a hard-tech startup

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.
• Source through TandemLaunch's 15-year-deep operator network, screen for venture-specific fit, and shepherd the hiring process through.
• Contribute to portfolio-wide initiatives (investor events, demo days, pitch coaching) as needed.

Benefits

• Direct mentorship from operators (co-founders, product leads, CEOs across the portfolio).
• A dynamic, entrepreneurial environment where you'll have real impact from day one.
• A supportive team that values curiosity, initiative, and collaboration.
• Commitment to building a community of excellence, equity, and diversity. Welcoming applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, and other candidates who will enrich our ideas and perspectives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level