Managing Director, Discovery and Insight

TED Conferences

Managing Director leading global search for ambitious changemakers and innovative ideas at TED's Audacious project. Spearheading strategy and teamwork to address top global challenges.

Posted 7/24/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $280,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in sourcing and curation strategy, with a focus on building and nurturing relationships within the social-change ecosystem. Proven ability to lead teams, manage stakeholder engagement, and drive strategic decision-making in fast-paced environments.

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Sourcing And Curation StrategyStakeholder Relationship ManagementTeam Building And DevelopmentChange ManagementSocial-Change Ecosystem Engagement

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LeadershipInfluenceCollaborationCommunicationStrategic Decision-Making

Industry Keywords

Social InnovationPhilanthropic SourcingFunder-Collaborative PlatformsMultinational OrganizationsCulturally Diverse Environments

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and evolve the sourcing and curation strategy.
Advance sourcing and curation strategy for each cycle, forming a clear point of view on where Audacious should be learning, looking, collaborating, and why, ultimately carrying that strategy forward across cycles
Develop a “future-oriented” approach by monitoring and anticipating emerging trends and innovations that Audacious actively engages with or responds to
Actively capture insights and lessons learned to refine and improve Audacious's sourcing and curation activities annually
Lead selection and diligence.
Apply the sourcing and curation strategy to identify the ideas most worth Audacious's attention - deciding what advances into the application stage, and bringing along multiple stakeholders and inputs along that decision-making process
Lead diligence on selected organizations, rigorously testing readiness, viability, and fit within Audacious's portfolio
Build the recommendation — evidence, rationale, and risks included — that carries an idea into finalist selection
Cultivate and steward the partners who bring ideas to Audacious.
Surface strong ideas by building genuine, ongoing relationships with social sector leaders, including funder and intermediary partners (incl. sourcing networks, collaboratives, and others)
Steward key partner relationships by developing a deep understanding of each stakeholder’s goals, priorities, and aspirations
Maintain stakeholder relationships continuously, within and across cycles, to ensure trust and rapport among all actors
Represent Audacious's point of view in the field, using that standing to draw the most ambitious organizations and ideas toward the platform and to create richer opportunities for sector collaboration
Build and nurture a team that explores the frontier of audacious social change.
Lead the Discovery and Insight vertical and its resourcing strategically, matching capacity to where the real work sits and bringing in the right technical expertise when needed
Develop people who can source, diligence, and hold partner relationships credibly in their own right — building a team of strong practitioners so Audacious's discovery capacity grows beyond any single person
Effectively steward relationships and actively collaborate with key Audacious partners (e.g., The Bridgespan Group) with whom we partner year-round

Requirements

What you’ll need

A leader who has set strategy in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, and who can hold their own in rooms both with ultra-high net worth individuals and issue experts and with their own team, making consequential decisions grounded in clear principles and with conviction
Strong generalist fluency across geographic, social-change and innovation domains with the maturity and credibility to engage experts across them
Experience building and developing teams, leading change management efforts, and operating through influence across a senior leadership group
Access to, and standing within, networks across the social-change and social-innovation ecosystem
Familiarity with multiple models across the sector — funder-collaborative platforms and other philanthropic sourcing and investment mechanisms
Experience in multinational and culturally diverse organizations

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Set and evolve the sourcing and curation strategy.
Advance sourcing and curation strategy for each cycle, forming a clear point of view on where Audacious should be learning, looking, collaborating, and why, ultimately carrying that strategy forward across cycles
Develop a “future-oriented” approach by monitoring and anticipating emerging trends and innovations that Audacious actively engages with or responds to
Actively capture insights and lessons learned to refine and improve Audacious's sourcing and curation activities annually
Lead selection and diligence.
Apply the sourcing and curation strategy to identify the ideas most worth Audacious's attention - deciding what advances into the application stage, and bringing along multiple stakeholders and inputs along that decision-making process
Lead diligence on selected organizations, rigorously testing readiness, viability, and fit within Audacious's portfolio
Build the recommendation — evidence, rationale, and risks included — that carries an idea into finalist selection
Cultivate and steward the partners who bring ideas to Audacious.
Surface strong ideas by building genuine, ongoing relationships with social sector leaders, including funder and intermediary partners (incl. sourcing networks, collaboratives, and others)
Steward key partner relationships by developing a deep understanding of each stakeholder’s goals, priorities, and aspirations
Maintain stakeholder relationships continuously, within and across cycles, to ensure trust and rapport among all actors
Represent Audacious's point of view in the field, using that standing to draw the most ambitious organizations and ideas toward the platform and to create richer opportunities for sector collaboration
Build and nurture a team that explores the frontier of audacious social change.
Lead the Discovery and Insight vertical and its resourcing strategically, matching capacity to where the real work sits and bringing in the right technical expertise when needed
Develop people who can source, diligence, and hold partner relationships credibly in their own right — building a team of strong practitioners so Audacious's discovery capacity grows beyond any single person
Effectively steward relationships and actively collaborate with key Audacious partners (e.g., The Bridgespan Group) with whom we partner year-round 🎯 Requirements
A leader who has set strategy in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, and who can hold their own in rooms both with ultra-high net worth individuals and issue experts and with their own team, making consequential decisions grounded in clear principles and with conviction
Strong generalist fluency across geographic, social-change and innovation domains with the maturity and credibility to engage experts across them
Experience building and developing teams, leading change management efforts, and operating through influence across a senior leadership group
Access to, and standing within, networks across the social-change and social-innovation ecosystem
Familiarity with multiple models across the sector — funder-collaborative platforms and other philanthropic sourcing and investment mechanisms
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