Ecosystem & Partnerships Manager

• Industry Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
• City Toronto
• Country Canada

At Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC), we're at the center of Canada's fastest-growing startup ecosystem—where global founders come to scale, raise capital, and build their future. Through flagship programs like Horizon, Pivot, GoEU, and Land & Expand, we connect entrepreneurs with the partners, capital, and growth strategies they need to succeed. Learn more at

As TBDC continues to strengthen Canada's position as a global destination for innovation, two flagship initiatives - GoEU and Horizon - are playing a critical role in connecting Europe's most promising startups with Canada's thriving innovation ecosystem.

Together, these programs are building meaningful partnerships across Europe and Canada, helping innovative companies expand internationally while creating long‑term economic impact.

Ecosystem & Partnerships Manager

Location: Toronto, ON (5 days/week, in‑office)

Employment Type: Full‑Time, Permanent

Department: Programming & Partnerships

Reports to: Director of Partnerships

Salary: $85,000–$100,000 annually, plus performance‑based bonus (10%)

Company Overview

The Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) is Canada's first business incubator, with over 35 years of experience supporting more than 9,000 local and international entrepreneurs, including two that became unicorns. Focused on driving meaningful outcomes, TBDC equips high‑potential startups with the resources, clients, and capital they need to grow.

About Horizon

TBDC's flagship is Horizon — a program that helps high‑potential international scale‑ups land and expand in North America. The goal isn't better events or better programming; it's real commercialization outcomes: founders who understand the market, win customers, raise capital, and plug into the ecosystem.

Horizon runs as one connected funnel of three products:

• Scout — an AI‑first, expert‑validated market‑intelligence tool that produces deep research reports framing each founder's market and the engagement ahead.
• Sprint — an intensive week in the Toronto market, where each cohort meets the stakeholders, customers, and investors who help them understand the market and start selling or raising.
• Surge — the conversion into sustained support: we match founders with vetted advisors and consultants for ongoing, paid advisory and go‑to‑market work.

The Partnership Manager builds and runs the year‑round engine that fills that funnel with the right people.

You build trust quickly and are comfortable engaging senior stakeholders directly. You are a connected operator who builds trust quickly and knows how to bring the right people into the room. Senior executives, customers, investors, and ecosystem partners take your call because you are credible, prepared, and known for creating value. You bring an existing network of relevant contacts. You're already in the ecosystem, you know people, and people know you.

You might come from the worlds where relationships compound fast — government and political offices, venture, corporate innovation, or a high‑growth startup — and you've built a rolodex most people would take a decade to assemble. You're a connector, convener, and commercial relationship builder: you love putting the right people together and watching opportunities come out of it.

We are seeking a Partnership Manager to build and run the year‑round engagement engine behind Horizon. We want to activate our existing stakeholders and invite new ones — increasing visibility, participation, and engagement from commercial partners, investors, advisory consultants, and high‑profile builders and operators — and turn that attention into real value for the international scale‑ups we work with.

Reporting to the Director of Partnerships, this role will:

• Design and produce a recurring calendar of high‑touch experiences (thematic events, breakfast series, fireside chats, industry workshops, and summits) that give stakeholders value all year round.
• Serve as a trusted connector and builder who brings senior operators, customers, and investors into contact with our founders.
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