Senior Lecturer in Practice: AI-Driven and Venture Building

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Salary
- Senior Lecturer £46,320 - £58,624 per annum
Full time/Permanent

Important information:

Once you have made a formal application please can you send a portfolio of relevant work, including examples of projects youhave delivered, led, or contributed to that demonstrate their experience and capabilities to Georgi Lliev at

This is not a conventional lecturer post. It is a front-row seat at the intersection of AI, venture building and entrepreneurship - where what you build on Monday can become what you teach on Friday.

As Senior Lecturer in Practice: AI-Driven Growth and Venture Building at Nottingham Business School’s Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT), you will co-lead our Venture Builder and take a leading role in CBIT’s growth and go-to-market activity. You will work directly with founders to find customers, validate revenue models and build traction, using AI to operate at a pace and level of personalisation that conventional approaches cannot match.

You will then turn that live, frontier practice into powerful learning experiences for founders, executives and postgraduate students across our MSc, micro-credential and executive education portfolio.

In a typical month, you will:

• Co-lead the CBIT Venture Builder
  , owning its go-to-market curriculum, growth technology stack and cohort growth milestones.
• Build and run CBIT’s go-to-market engine
  , generating demand for the Venture Builder, executive education and commercial courses.
• Create new opportunities for CBIT and its ventures
  , representing the Centre at events and building relationships with founders, investors, accelerators and corporate partners.
• Help ventures achieve traction
  , challenging their positioning, pricing, channels, customer-acquisition systems and launch plans.
• Stay at the frontier
  , testing emerging AI tools and turning successful experiments into documented playbooks, teaching cases and practice-based outputs.
• Design and deliver outstanding learning
  , bringing current industrial practice into postgraduate, micro-credential, executive and founder education.

No two weeks will look the same. One day you might be working with founders and investors; the next, analysing a live campaign, building an automated growth workflow or designing the kind of course you wish you had taken earlier in your career.

You will have the opportunity to experiment, generate measurable impact and help shape how CBIT’s ventures, programmes and community grow. If you are already delivering the kind of AI-driven growth that others are still talking about - and you can turn that experience into exceptional learning - this role is for you!

Informal enquiries
We strongly encourage prospective candidates to contact Georgi Iliev at  for an informal conversation about the role, the CBIT Venture Builder and the opportunity to help shape our growth work.

Interview Date: w/c 21st September 2026

The Centre for Business and Industry Transformation (CBIT) is a multidisciplinary innovation and research centre dedicated to helping businesses, entrepreneurs, and public sector organisations transform through research, technology, and innovation.

Based within Nottingham Trent University, CBIT brings together academic expertise, industry experience, and emerging technologies to solve real-world challenges, accelerate business growth, and create measurable economic and societal impact. Our work spans artificial intelligence, digital transformation, product development, sustainability, advanced manufacturing, health technologies, entrepreneurship, and business model innovation.

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