Head of Incubator Partnerships

- Create the strategic roadmap to build effective external partnerships in the social equity and cannabis advocacy community - Build and maintain close working partnerships with key CBOs and advocacy groups, collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure a coordinated organizational approach - Build Lantern’s social equity incubator playbook that is ready to be localized and launched in key markets - Liaise with external stakeholders, and effectively integrate/deploy internal stakeholders where advantageous to social equity partners (ie. Utilizing team members to facilitate courses related to business pitches, financing etc; or 1:1 advisory roles around leadership/management/branding etc.) - Ownership of CBO and management of the charitable funding request process, including execution and reporting (future responsibility when Lantern has CSR budget) - Demonstrated leader who effectively collaborates by taking ownership of key projects - Effective networker and collaborator who develops strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. - Great instinct, high EQ, thoughtful decision maker - Effective in process management, customer focus and problem-solving - Bias toward action and a focus on results, with the ability to prioritize multiple ongoing initiatives while meeting timelines - Willingness to deep dive on operations to make partnerships work - Understanding of how tech/product innovation is critical to partner success - Willing to travel (when it becomes safe again) - Scrappiness, ability to get things done with few resources, figure things out, enthusiasm to work on granular tasks when necessary - Analytical chops - can model out scenarios, understands how to think about maximizing ROI on time and tech resources -