{"id":2463699,"url":"https://alion.io/job/boisei-gtm-lead","title":"GTM Lead","company":{"id":4423415,"name":"boisei labs","domain":"boisei.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/boisei","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Manatal","truth_index":null},"role":"Sales","role_family":"Sales","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["State College, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":100000,"max":null,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":100000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-13T17:55:54Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-20T13:12:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":6,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":6},"description":"Go-to-Market/Venture Commercialization Lead\nBoisei labs - Venture Studio\nLocation: State College, PA (hybrid - approx. 2-3 days per week in-office; flexible)\nCompensation: $100,000+ base salary (Studio minimum salary full compensation will be discussed), plus benefits\nReports to: Managing Partner\nOVERVIEW\nboisei labs is looking for a Venture Commercialization Lead to serve as the commercial engine behind our \"tech for good\" ventures - the person who takes early-stage concepts from idea to real customers, users, and traction. You will build the first sales and marketing pipelines, secure pilot customers, validate business concepts with the market, and forge partnerships and early-adopter networks that give new ventures their initial momentum.\nThis is a builder's role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys being externally facing. You'll move fluidly between market research, business development, and hands-on go-to-market execution, often across more than one venture at a time. While your initial focus will be on a particular venture company, we are hiring for overall venture studio fit; you'll apply modified commercialization playbooks to future ventures as they are built and launched.\nYou'll partner closely with our product team to test prototypes and MVPs in the market, and you'll help prioritize what we build based on real business value. As ventures find their footing, you'll establish clean hand-off processes, so those customer and partner relationships continue to thrive.\nABOUT BOISEI LABS\nboisei labs is a venture studio focused on building ambitious \"tech for good\" companies - innovations that drive social good, green tech, and other meaningful impacts. We create multiple ventures in parallel across ideation, development, launch, and growth phases.\nOur team works fast, embraces startup culture, and continually pushes new ideas forward - backed by an unusual advantage: we have capital in hand, no outside investors to constrain timelines, and deep connections across Penn State and the broader innovation ecosystem.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nGo-to-Market & Customer Acquisition\nBuild and manage the initial sales and marketing pipelines needed to secure pilot customers and early users.\nIdentify and manage external vendors and partners to support go-to-market launches.\nEstablish clear processes to hand off a launched venture's customer and partner relationships, ensuring ongoing success beyond launch.\nRefine brand strategy and development for new and existing ventures. \nMarket Validation & Research\nTest early-stage business concepts through market research, including industry and user interviews.\nDefine participant personas for new ventures and determine how to get in front of these audiences.\nPartnerships & Early-Adopter Networks\nBuild relationships with potential partner businesses - primarily virtual, with in-person and regional meetings where they help move key opportunities forward.\nDevelop relationships with prospective users of new \"tech for good\" ventures to build a strong network of early adopters.\nProduct Collaboration\nPartner with the product team to test prototypes and MVPs with the market.\nHelp prioritize technology development based on business value and real market signal.\nNew Venture Creation\nIdentify and evaluate emerging opportunities and market trends to inform the direction of boisei labs and boisei investments.\nContribute innovate ideas and strategies for new venture development. \nWorking on the earliest stages of venture development through launch.\nHOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME\nThe mix will flex with each venture's stage, but as a starting guide:\n~45% - Go-to-market and customer acquisition: building pipelines, securing pilots, and managing launch partners and vendors.\n~30% - Market validation and research: concept testing, industry and user interviews, persona development, and trend scanning.\n~25% - Partnerships, product, and venture collaboration: building partner and early-adopter networks and working alongside product on MVPs and prioritization.\nWHO THIS ROLE IS FOR\nThis role is best suited for someone who is:\nCurious and quick to pick up new ideas, paired with the persistence to dig deep and uncover new insight.\nA demonstrated self-starter who can navigate ambiguous, novel work - ideally shaped by past entrepreneurial experience.\nGrounded in social science principles and skilled at uncovering underlying business needs.\nA natural networker with early-stage business development experience.\nHighly comfortable in external-facing roles, demonstrated through past sales, public speaking, or similar experience.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nEarly-stage business development, sales, or go-to-market experience, ideally within startups or a venture-building environment.\nA track record of operating independently in ambiguous, fast-moving settings; 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