Empower Future Leaders.
Build the Future of Growth.
Do Things Differently.
Senior Lecturer in Practice: AI-Driven Growth and Venture Building
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 georgi.iliev@ntu.ac.uk
About the Role
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 georgi.iliev@ntu.ac.uk for an informal conversation about the role, the CBIT Venture Builder and the opportunity to help shape our growth work.
Encouragement to apply
Although the job description is extensive, we encourage anyone who meets around 70% or more of the requirements to apply. We are looking not only for experience, but also for the mindset, grit and ambition to go above and beyond, learn quickly and make an exceptional contribution.
Interview Date: w/c 21st September 2026
About CBIT
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.
Through collaborative research projects, innovation programmes, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), consultancy, and venture building activities, we support organisations at every stage of their innovation journey - from early-stage startups and scale-ups to established SMEs and large enterprises.
CBIT is also home to the Venture Builder Programme, where we work alongside ambitious founders and innovative businesses to validate ideas, develop products, secure investment, access grant funding, adopt emerging technologies, and accelerate commercial growth.
Our mission is simple: to bridge the gap between academia and industry, transforming cutting-edge knowledge into practical solutions that drive growth, competitiveness, and long-term success.
For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact Georgi Iliev at georgi.iliev@ntu.ac.uk.
About NBS
Nottingham Business School (NBS) delivers research and education that combine academic excellence with real-world impact on people, business, and society.
We lead in experiential learning and personalised education, and our research drives positive change across social and economic spheres. This informs all our programmes, from undergraduate to doctoral.
With strong partnerships across business, public, and voluntary sectors, NBS is known as the business school for business. We hold the prestigious Triple Crown Accreditation (EQUIS, AACSB, AMBA), placing us in the top 1% of business schools worldwide. Discover more on our website.
At NTU, we do things differently. Join one of Europe’s largest and most innovative business schools to help shape inclusive research and make a real difference.
Safe and Inclusive
At NTU, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our students and colleagues. By championing positive wellbeing, we promote an environment where all can thrive and reach their full potential. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Whilst this role is currently eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Route, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position, or for more information visit the Government Skilled Worker visa support page.
This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.
