Future Fifty Programme Lead in London

The Future Fifty is the UK’s leading late-stage growth programme for tech companies, supporting founders with international expansion efforts and connecting their senior leadership teams to networks of peers and mentors. It has supported over 30% of the nation’s unicorns and 40% of decacorns, with alumni collectively raising more than £77bn.

Designed to be more experiential than academic, the Future Fifty is industry agnostic, by invitation only, and inducts 25 companies twice a year. Programme highlights include a bespoke supper-club for the c-suite, founder missions to Dubai, Singapore, and New York, and the annual Future Fifty Forum.

The Opportunity

We're looking for a people-focused, tech-curious Programme Lead who is looking to immerse themselves in the world of ambitious founders.

Programme Research, Ideation & Curation

• Build and develop the strategy for the Future Fifty programme, ensuring it is truly valuable to the community and the tech ecosystem.
• Stay informed and at the forefront of developments in tech - proactively identifying trends and iterating the programme accordingly.
• Organise a series of growth platform-based events, experiences and introductions that appeal to the Future Fifty community and ensure the programme delivers long-term impact.
• Adopt a data-driven approach to optimise the programme and make decisions.

Programme Delivery

• Ensure we deliver an exceptional, impact-driven, and scalable experience for all companies within our network.
• Engage the ecosystem - speakers, funders, facilitators - on strategic programme opportunities, integrating their support and being front line.
• Lead on the design and collation of programme impact metrics and reporting frameworks.
• Lead and influence internal stakeholders and team to clear direction, milestones and intended outcomes, leading relevant team meetings.
• Work collaboratively and closely with the partnerships team to identify commercial opportunities and deliver partnership impact.
• Maintain strong communication with programme partners, keeping them informed on activity and supporting them in achieving their objectives.
• Lead on the design and delivery of the Future Fifty missions, securing speakers and facilitators to drive impact and high satisfaction feedback from the founders.
• Lead on the delivery of bespoke scaleup activations that may be outside of the programme where audience may be overlapping.

Community Engagement

• Scale the community by developing a pipeline of candidates for the Future Fifty programme through direct outreach, partner networks, and mobilising ancillary networks.
• Maintain close relationships with Future Fifty companies through day-to-day community management and alignment of services to their needs and goals.
• Build and develop the alumni engagement strategy.
• Network continuously to source advisors, possible partners and experts who can enhance the Tech Nation offering.
• Represent the brand at various speaking engagements.

Requirements

• Experience in events, communications, Startups, VC and operations is desirable.
• Able to work independently and proactively.
• Comfortable with public speaking.
• Right to work in the UK 4 days a week in the office.
• This role will include events out of hours including dinners and breakfast.
• This role may also include travel as part of international missions for the community, however, this is not guaranteed.

This job is for you if:

• You are a people person and love building relationships.
• You have a curious nature about tech and scaleups.
• There is no task too small and no idea too big.
• You are driven by supporting ambitious companies and looking to develop your exposure in this area.
• You are able to manage multiple spinning plates and operate proactively and in an organised manner.
• You are able to think creatively to come up with new ideas, commercial opportunities and find solutions.
• You are comfortable being in the weeds of running day-to-day delivery.

Benefits

• 25 days contractual annual leave.
• Enhanced discretionary leave provision, including an additional day off for your birthday and leave between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• The option to work remotely anywhere in the world for 3 weeks/year (1 week at Easter and 2 weeks during July and August).
• AXA Health insurance, with the option to add dependents.
• Life Insurance.
• Medicash access including online GP access and mental health support.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Competitive pension provision.
• Perkbox membership with generous monthly allocation of points for day-to-day purchases.
• Learning and development annual allowance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Lunch 1x/week, office snacks, and regular team drinks.
• Quarterly team activities and annual team trip/day out.
• Access to the Founders Forum Group network of businesses and wider tech ecosystem.

We currently have a hybrid working model with Monday to Thursday spent in the office and Friday with the option to work remotely/from home.