Digantara is a leading Space Surveillance and Intelligence company focused on ensuring orbital safety and sustainability. With expertise in space-based detection, tracking, identification, and monitoring, Digantara provides comprehensive domain awareness across all regimes, enabling end-users to gain actionable intelligence on a single platform. At the core of its infrastructure lies a sophisticated integration of hardware and software capabilities aligned with the key principles of situational awareness: perception(data collection), comprehension (data processing), and prediction(analytics). This holistic approach empowers Digantara to monitor all Resident Space Objects(RSOs) in orbit, fostering comprehensive domain awareness.
The Manager – Incubation & Partnerships will drive Digantara's growth beyond its core business by building and managing the company's incubation ecosystem while developing strategic partnerships that expand capability, market access, and long-term value creation.
Ideal Candidate
- 2–4 years of experience across venture building, incubation programs, venture capital, corporate development, partnerships, or early-stage operating roles.
- Demonstrated ability to take ideas from zero-to-one through structured execution and stakeholder alignment.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience evaluating opportunities, structuring partnerships, and managing strategic initiatives.
Roles & Responsibilities
Incubation
- Build and operate Digantara's in-house incubator, including program structure, selection criteria, and operating framework.
- Source, evaluate, and onboard founders, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIRs), and venture opportunities.
- Structure incubation engagements, including funding, ownership models, milestones, and support mechanisms.
- Establish and manage the ecosystem of resources available to incubated ventures, including infrastructure, expertise, and market access.
- Define performance metrics, monitor progress, and guide ventures from concept through scale, integration, or spin-out.
- Manage portfolio reporting and communicate venture performance to leadership.
Partnerships
- Identify and develop strategic partnerships across commercial organizations, government agencies, defense entities, and research institutions.
- Lead partnership initiatives from opportunity assessment through negotiation, structuring, and ongoing management.
- Build and strengthen an ecosystem of partners that enhances Digantara's strategic position.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, commercial, and policy teams to align partnerships with business objectives and growth priorities.
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience in venture building, incubation, partnerships, corporate development, venture capital, or startup operations.
- Strong analytical, commercial, and deal-structuring capabilities.
- Experience working with founders, senior executives, and external stakeholders.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with a high degree of ownership.
Preferred Qualities
- Experience founding a company or working within an incubator, accelerator, or venture studio.
- Exposure to investment structuring, strategic alliances, licensing agreements, or joint ventures.
- Experience managing cross-border partnerships and collaborations.
- Background in aerospace, defense, deep-tech, or dual-use technology sectors.
- MBA, CA, or equivalent qualification.
General Requirements
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- Comfortable operating across multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- High ownership mindset and entrepreneurial approach to problem solving.
Job Location: Hebbal, Bengaluru
