Job Title

Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor - Entrepreneurship

Department

Entrepreneurship Department JM

Worker Type

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Pay Type

Salary

Salary will be commensurate with the level of the position, education, and experience.

Benefit Eligible

Yes

Screening Date

2026-11-13

Job Description Summary

The Department of Entrepreneurship invites applications for a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor position for Spring Semester 2027 and Fall Semester 2027. The primary teaching assignment is multiple sections of ESP 201: Entrepreneurship: From Ideas to Actions. This is the department’s foundational course. We are looking for someone who combines practical entrepreneurial experience with solid academic grounding and can turn the venture-creation process into hands-on, engaging learning.

Job Description

In ESP 201, students learn to identify and validate problems worth solving. They conduct customer discovery interviews, design value propositions, and build and test business models using tools such as the Lean Canvas and the Business Model Canvas. The course also covers the realities of entrepreneurial work, entrepreneurial careers and paths (startup, social, corporate, and creative ventures), and how ventures move from idea to action. The successful candidate may also teach other courses in the entrepreneurship core as departmental needs require.

Minimum Qualifications:

Required: Ph.D. in business, entrepreneurship, or a closely related field by date of appointment for appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor; Master’s degree in business, entrepreneurship, or a closely related field by date of appointment or Bachelor’s degree (typically in business, technology, or the sciences; degrees in the creative and liberal arts may also be considered), plus at least five years of relevant professional experience in one or more of these areas: Managerial, executive, or highly applied professional roles, founding or working in entrepreneurial organizations (startup, social, corporate, or creative), entrepreneurial ecosystem activities such as funding, evaluating, or mentoring ventures, entrepreneurship education, in higher education or in practice for appointment as Instructor.

Consideration may be given to applicants with:

• Experience teaching entrepreneurship, especially introductory or first-year courses.
• Familiarity with customer discovery, lean startup, and business model design methods.
• Demonstrated ability to engage students through experiential and active learning.

Additional Position Information (if applicable)

Required Application Documents

resume/CV

Special Instructions (if applicable)

Inquiries may be directed to Hessam Sarooghi at saroogh@miamioh.edu. Screening of applications will begin two (2) weeks from the date of posting and will continue until the position is filled.

Additional Information

A criminal background check is required. All campuses are smoke- and tobacco-free campuses.

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