Location: London (Farringdon) 5 days / week

Salary: £70,000–£90,000 base + bonus + equity

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.

The application process

• Initial conversation with the recruitment team.
• First interview with the marketing leadership team.
• Practical discussion focusing on your past event runbooks, budget tracking, and pipeline outcomes.
• Final interview at the London office.