Events & Community Lead

Location: London (Farringdon) 5 days / week

Travel: Approximately 30–40% (including regular travel to New York)

The opportunity

Our client is a highly profitable, fast-growing B2B SaaS company. Having scaled rapidly without traditional marketing spend, they are now hiring their first dedicated Community and Events Lead to build the spaces where high-value finance, investment, and advisory professionals connect. This is a high-ownership, strategic role. You will take full responsibility for a £500k–£600k programme budget, designing and running a world-class calendar of events that turns relationships into measurable revenue. For an ambitious operator, this is a chance to join an early-stage business with exceptional market traction, build a key marketing function from the ground up, and eventually scale a team across London and New York.

What you will be doing

• Event and community ownership: Design and deliver the end-to-end event strategy, including intimate executive dinners, customer roundtables, and major industry conferences such as SuperReturn. Build out a structured community referral engine to encourage natural brand advocacy among power users. Organise high-impact brand activations, including targeted sponsorships and technical hackathons.
• Budget and ROI discipline: Manage a first-year program budget of £500k–£600k with strict commercial discipline, ensuring every pound spent is tracked against pipeline influence and relationship value. Establish clear metrics for success, moving away from simple registration numbers to focus on qualified leads and revenue outcomes.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with the customer success and sales teams to identify key accounts, secure high-value attendees, and ensure warm follow-ups. Partner with the senior leadership team to prepare executives for speaking opportunities and key on-site engagements.
• Global scale and leadership: Travel internationally (primarily to New York) to establish community roots and manage local event execution. Build the operational playbook that will allow you to hire and manage junior support in New York as the function grows.

What success looks like in the first two months

• Establish the revenue plan: You will map out the financial model and pipeline expectations for the events programme.
• Identify key events and advocates: You will pinpoint the high-signal industry events and key executives to target.
• Build cross-functional workflows: You will establish a seamless working rhythm with the customer success and sales teams to align on event follow-up.

What our client is looking for

Experience and background: Our client would love to give someone the opportunity to step up into this role, with ideally 4-7 years of experience. Proven experience running end-to-end events and community programmes, ideally within a fast-moving SaaS, fintech, or high-growth startup environment (businesses like Stripe, Brex, or Ramp are a great benchmark). A consulting background is not required, but you must have experience engaging and communicating with highly analytical, senior corporate audiences. Demonstrable experience managing and justifying significant event budgets. Loose budget allocation is a red flag for this business; they need a sharp commercial operator.

Key skills and mindset: A proactive, self-starting approach. You are happy negotiating venue rates and chasing RSVPs, but equally comfortable presenting strategic ROI reports to leadership. Strong logistical and project management skills, with the ability to run multiple complex events in parallel without losing attention to detail.

Why this role is worth a look

• True ownership: You will own a significant budget and have a direct line to the founders and leadership team, with minimal bureaucracy.
• High-growth path: Success in this role leads directly to building and leading a global team.
• Excellent benefits: Competitive base salary, performance-related bonus, meaningful equity, private health insurance, and multiple team offsites.