Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
Growth Hacker / Lecturer
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About the Role
This is not a conventional lecturer post. It is a front-row seat at the intersection of AI, venture building and entrepreneurship - where what you build on Monday can become what you teach on Friday.
As Senior Lecturer in Practice: AI-Driven Growth and Venture Building at Nottingham Business School’s Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT), you will co-lead our Venture Builder and take a leading role in CBIT’s growth and go-to-market activity. You will work directly with founders to find customers, validate revenue models and build traction, using AI to operate at a pace and level of personalisation that conventional approaches cannot match.
You will then turn that live, frontier practice into powerful learning experiences for founders, executives and postgraduate students across our MSc, micro-credential and executive education portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
In a typical month, you will:
- Co-lead the CBIT Venture Builder, owning its go-to-market curriculum, growth technology stack and cohort growth milestones.
- Build and run CBIT’s go-to-market engine, generating demand for the Venture Builder, executive education and commercial courses.
- Create new opportunities for CBIT and its ventures, representing the Centre at events and building relationships with founders, investors, accelerators and corporate partners.
- Help ventures achieve traction, challenging their positioning, pricing, channels, customer-acquisition systems and launch plans.
- Stay at the frontier, testing emerging AI tools and turning successful experiments into documented playbooks, teaching cases and practice-based outputs.
- Design and deliver outstanding learning, bringing current industrial practice into postgraduate, micro-credential, executive and founder education.
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No two weeks will look the same. One day you might be working with founders and investors; the next, analysing a live campaign, building an automated growth workflow or designing the kind of course you wish you had taken earlier in your career.
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You will have the opportunity to experiment, generate measurable impact and help shape how CBIT’s ventures, programmes and community grow. If you are already delivering the kind of AI-driven growth that others are still talking about - and you can turn that experience into exceptional learning - this role is for you!
Informal Enquiries
We strongly encourage prospective candidates to contact Georgi Iliev at georgi.iliev@ntu.ac.uk for an informal conversation about the role, the CBIT Venture Builder and the opportunity to help shape our growth work.
Encouragement to Apply
Although the job description is extensive, we encourage anyone who meets around 70% or more of the requirements to apply. We are looking not only for experience, but also for the mindset, grit and ambition to go above and beyond, learn quickly and make an exceptional contribution.
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