Associate Director - Global Operations

Stanford Seed seeks an Associate Director, Global Operations. The global operations team comprises more than 50 staff located across Sub-Saharan Africa, India and Indonesia, and manages offices in Ghana, Kenya, and India, as well as partnership offices in Botswana and Indonesia. Together with Stanford GSB Faculty, the global team delivers business development programs to roughly 1,000 CEOs/founders each year. The Associate Director will lead and drive efforts to continuously improve Seed’s global hiring, training and HR processes for current and new Seed locations across Africa and Asia. They will also lead the annual project planning and execution for recruitment of participants for the global Seed Transformation Program - Seed’s flagship entrepreneurship support program. The Associate Director, Global operations will also be responsible for reviewing and preparing contract documents (HR, participant agreements, etc.), budget guidance (including for global compensation), and serve as Seed’s risk management lead. This role will report directly to Seed’s Global Director, and work closely with Global HR, Risk Management, and our teams at the GSB and in South Asia, Indonesia, East, West and Southern Africa. The Associate Director, Global Operations will contribute to the continued strengthening and success of Seed’s diverse global team.

In this role, you will work with a mission-driven and dynamic global group of teams and individuals. As we continue to deliver upon our ambitious mission and vision, success for this role will lead to the improved performance of the teams and individuals, as well as the quality of participants in Stanford Seed’s flagship Transformation Program. You will drive initiative, lead with creativity, and inspire resilience.

This is a full-time hybrid role that requires regular, on-site work in Seed’s offices at the Stanford GSB campus, with a minimum of at least two days per week, on average.

Stanford University exempt employee standard benefits package

No language requirement other than English proficiency. However, cross-cultural fluency is a skill that would be of value.