Events Manager in London

Your mission is to lead the Techspace Events team across our London portfolio with oversight extending to our Berlin portfolio. You will be accountable for the growth and profitability of our Event Venue product across both markets, owning the delivery of events strategy, annual budgeting, and pricing framework, while managing the Events Team to deliver it day to day.

In London, your team handles both the sales pipeline and on-the-ground delivery; in Berlin, enquiries are centralised through your team while our on-site Community team continues to deliver events locally. Across both markets, you set the direction, hold the commercial decisions, and ensure sales and delivery work together seamlessly, from first enquiry through to a client walking through the door.

Hospitality is at the heart of what we do, and while this is a leadership role, it's a hands-on one: you'll be closely involved in our highest-value and most complex events, our largest spaces, new venue launches, and strategic agency relationships, while trusting your team with the rest.

An exceptional Events Manager can hold both the detail and the bigger picture at once, managing the expectations of clients, agencies, suppliers, and your own team simultaneously, while staying focused on what actually grows the business rather than just what keeps it busy. Strong commercial judgement, natural leadership, and the ability to coach a small team toward genuine ownership of their roles are all essential.

As Events Manager, you own the strategic and commercial direction of the Techspace Events business, while managing the team who execute it day to day. You will have cross functional responsibilities while being accountable for developing and delivering our annual events strategy and hitting budget, and ensuring your team has the guardrails, support, and coaching they need to excel in their roles.

• Revenue Ownership: You'll ensure events meet or exceed budgeted income, consistently seeking incremental improvement, and hold ultimate accountability for pipeline health.
• Strategy and Pricing: You'll set the annual events strategy and budget, and own our pricing framework, including minimum spend thresholds, structures, and discount guardrails.
• Team Management: You'll manage the performance and development of the Events Team, setting their OKRs, running their rota and coverage across our locations.
• Hospitality Standards: You'll set and uphold the hospitality standard our clients and members experience across every venue.
• Commercial Sign-Off: You'll review and approve high-value or non-standard contracts your team raises.
• Portfolio Growth: You'll track performance across all venues and lead the operational set up and launch of new sites as the portfolio grows.
• Strategic Partnerships: You'll own our most important agency and broker relationships directly.
• Marketing Partnership: You'll work closely with Marketing to shape targeted lead generation and retargeting campaigns.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: You'll build strong working relationships with Community and Finance.
• Reporting and Analysis: You'll own monthly and quarterly reporting to stakeholders.

Must haves:

• Commercially Minded: You think in terms of budget, margin, and long-term value.
• Hospitality Led: You believe exceptional hospitality is a commercial advantage.
• A Genuine Coach: You get real satisfaction from developing people.
• Accountable: You take ownership of outcomes.
• Keen & Eager: You are a self motivator.
• Friendly: You are a natural people-person.
• Caring: A real sense of empathy and care is essential.
• Strong Listener: Actively listening to clients, partners, and your own team is vital.

You will fit right in if you...

• Move naturally between big-picture strategy and hands-on detail.
• Care as much about getting the fundamentals right as you do about the end result.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard.
• Get energy from shaping an evolving environment.
• Take ownership of problems and see them through.

It's probably not the right fit if you...

• Want to work mostly remotely or asynchronously.
• Want a role focused purely on sales or purely on delivery.
• Are only interested in the numbers.
• Prefer an established environment where the answers are already written down.
• Prefer being handed clear, defined tasks.

Why us?

Our values include openness, care, thoughtful pace, striving to improve, and seeking balance. Techspace is the go-to place for scaling tech, freeing teams to build the future, with a network that spans the world’s leading tech hubs. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.