About XPRIZE   

XPRIZE competitions change the world for the better by accelerating innovation life cycles, catalyzing markets, and energizing stakeholders.   

The XPRIZE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to inspiring and incentivizing breakthroughs to the most critical challenges facing humanity. Since its beginning in 1994, the Foundation has been building and continues to build a vision of hope and abundance for humanity’s future by harnessing the power of innovators, technology, and resources.    

Through incentive prize competitions, XPRIZE enables people to create bold and transformative solutions that are scalable and drive real impact. XPRIZE competitions positively impact both the marketplace and humanity by addressing the market failures that have prevented significant breakthroughs across multiple sectors.    

An XPRIZE…   

sets an audacious but achievable goal that aims to overcome challenges deemed impossible. It tackles some of humanity's most pressing issues by redefining what is achievable and pushing the boundaries of human potential.    

defines and addresses a clear problem through extensive research, a design sprint, and a competition that catalyzes the development of the next breakthroughs to put humanity on the path toward a preferred future state for all. The desired outcome from an XPRIZE is clear and measurable, and the rules of the competition are transparent and easily understood.    

democratizes innovation by encouraging expert and nonexpert participation and multidisciplinary collaboration.    

catalyzes markets and revitalizes stagnant industries by increasing awareness of market failures and accelerating innovations to address them.   

is highly leveraged, with competing teams attracting and mobilizing investment capital, partner support, and new members in pursuit of the prize. Philanthropic dollars are thus magnified in support of a solution.    

Our first XPRIZE, the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight, spurred an industry and created exponential breakthroughs. Since then we have provided over $140 million in incentives through these competitions. Each prize has created an industry-changing technology that brings us closer to a better, safer, more sustainable world.    

The use of incentive competitions, or prizes, to accelerate innovation goes back over 300 years, to when the British Admiralty launched the Longitude Prize in 1714 to find a better way to navigate our seas. In the years since, several well-known innovations have resulted from incentive competitions, including canning as a form of food preservation (a competition launched by Napoleon in 1795), modern plastics (the Billiard Ball Prize, 1863) and commercial aviation (the Orteig Prize, 1919).    

This is more than a job to us. When you work at XPRIZE, you’re making a positive impact on some of the biggest challenges facing our world. Whether you’re working in prize design or development, marketing and communications, stakeholder relations, business operations or any other department, you’re playing a critical role in turning the impossible into the possible.  

Job Summary  

The Marketing Strategist, Prize Operations will provide strategic and tactical marketing support to multiple XPRIZE operations teams – the teams that launch and manage our XPRIZE competitions. S/he will report to the Chief Marketing Officer and have a dotted line to the prize lead(s). 

Responsibilities  

• Responsible for marketing strategy and execution for all aspects of prize lifecycle (3+ years), including prize launch, events, social media, PR, branding, design and collateral. 
• Partners with multiple internal and external stakeholders to achieve marketing goals. 

 Requirements  

• 4+ years of experience. 
• Experience with a startup or highly entrepreneurial company preferred. 
• Deep knowledge of and experience with social media and digital marketing. 
• Comprehensive knowledge of marketing concepts and principles.  
• Ability to perform complex tasks typically following established processes.  
• Experience leading and directing the work of other employees and having full authority for personnel decisions.  
• Primarily focused on administering established policies and procedures but may have some impact on departmental budgeting, strategic planning, and procedural change.  
• Bachelor's degree 

 Come change the world with us.   

XPRIZE Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to having a truly inclusive workforce. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.