Job Specifications
About MaRS
MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs.
MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others. In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.
MaRS is the place where you can play a meaningful role in our innovation economy.
We understand qualifications on a posting can be daunting. If you're passionate about the opportunity and believe you can make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you, even if you don't meet every listed qualification. We’re always looking for great talent to join our team on planet MaRS.
We actively encourage all applicants, including equity-deserving communities, including those who identify as BIPOC, racialized, women, people with disabilities, and people with diverse gender identities, expressions and sexual orientations.
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About The Opportunity
MaRS is seeking a part-time MedTech Advisor (Independent Contractor) to provide tactical, hands-on guidance to high-potential startups in the device, diagnostics and medical technology/ software space across the MaRS portfolio, including MaRS’ Mobility Unlimited Hub startups (primarily pre-commercial or early growth stage). The ideal candidate is a former founder or C-suite executive who has successfully navigated the path from product development to global market access. You will empower medtech startup CEOs to overcome the industry’s most rigorous hurdles: securing FDA/Health Canada approvals, architecting reimbursement models, and managing complex clinical sales cycles. This role is for a strategic operator dedicated to helping ventures scale life-changing technologies through actionable, expert insight.
Advisors do not operate as employees of MaRS.
Scope of Work
Through individual and advisory community events, you will provide guidance and subject matter expertise on topics relating to scaling hardtech and software ventures in the medtech space like:
Technology development, business model refinement and reimbursement strategies
Regulatory, compliance, quality management and manufacturing considerations
Go-to-market strategy, partnership development with strategics and reaching customers with long sales cycles
Capital strategy and investor engagement
Collaborate on project plans with the aim of guiding startups to integrate end-users into their innovation culture and accelerate the commercialization of novel innovations; this includes clinical validation and/ or evidence generation
Work with the MaRS team to support the delivery of best in-class programs:
Assess client needs and plan service delivery in collaboration with the MaRS team
Provide input into company application assessments and program strategy
Make connections to your network–to talent, customers, experts, and funding
Share up-to-date intelligence on current MedTech trends or opportunities
Lead or contribute to net new and/or improve existing programming necessary to accelerate the growth of medtech and active mobility businesses. Collaborate on designing solutions to reduce barriers for growth across multiple medtech sectors.
Engagement Structure
You will be assigned through a ‘Monthly Work Plan’ that outlines specific deliverables to be completed that month.
Monthly deliverables will vary and are based on current needs; no minimum or guaranteed number of hours is offered.
Advisors are engaged as independent contractors, not as employees of MaRS.
Advisors are expected to work autonomously.
Areas of Engagement
Beyond What Is Outlined In The Scope Of Work, Advisors May Be Engaged To Contribute In One Or More Of The Following Ways, Depending On The Needs Outlined In The Monthly Work Plan
Provide individual advisory to ventures outside the medtech sector, as appropriate, and make connections to your network for MaRS clients
Support the creation and delivery of programming and content. This might include:
Small group advisory sessions and other 1:many experiential learning programs
Peer groups and other networking activities
Provide insights to content for MaRS platforms like the Startup Toolkit, and contributing thought leadership through articles, speaking engagements and other forums
Provide insights and knowledge to MaRS corporate projects including sessions for corporate partners, special venture cohorts, and more
Support MaRS operational excellence and administration including by:
Providing input to shape decisions o
About the Company
MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it's reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellin, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense inno...
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