Events Graduate

Novabook; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Novabook in London is seeking an Events Associate to join our Growth team and help ideate, plan, and deliver our weekly events, including founder dinners, networking socials, pitch events and panels. You’ll work hands-on across the full event lifecycle.

Attending around two events per week, typically in the evenings, you’ll collaborate with the Partnerships Director, CEO and Sales to build relationships and a strong pipeline.

Qualifications

• You’re highly organised and think ahead to avoid anything slipping through cracks.
• You have strong attention to detail and care about small things being right.
• You have some experience organising or running events; professional experience is a plus.
• You’re interested in the UK startup ecosystem and may have a network within it.
• You’re proactive, self-sufficient and able to take ownership with minimal guidance.
• You’re a clear, confident communicator with fluent English.
• You’re comfortable presenting to an audience, from 10 to 100+ people.

Responsibilities

• Taking responsibility for running our repeat event series, including private founder dinners, networking socials, pitch events and panel events.
• Running campaigns to find exciting new startups and founders, and inviting them to our events, ensuring a full and high quality room.
• Supporting on planning and running internal socials including office events, quarterly socials for the whole company and ad‑hoc events for the team.
• Managing key promotional channels including WhatsApp communities, LinkedIn presence and online footprint to help promote our events and attract audiences.
• Ideating epic event formats that will help build our brand within the startup community.
• Develop and manage event budgets, ensuring all expenses are tracked and events deliver high return on investment
• Responsible for event guests and registrations using analytical skills to select the best registrants.
• Identifying relevant events to sponsor that will deliver high return on investment
• Help to build out our partnership pipeline, identifying new opportunities and partners we should be working with and facilitating introductions to the Partnerships Director.

Skills

Event coordination

Attention to detail

Public speaking

English fluency

Tools

WhatsApp

LinkedIn

Job description

Location: Victoria, London (5 days in-office), plus in person event locations (including evenings)

Start Date: ASAP

About Novabook

Novabook is the future of accounting. We have a software engineering team automating day to day accounting processes, whilst we have an amazing team of the best accountants managing client relationships & delivery to create the best outcomes for clients. Our team previously founded, scaled and sold a technology company for $50M and we plan to 100x this at Novabook.

We are a small, rapidly growing team of 50 people at the moment (18 people in the engineering & product team, 6 people in the sales & marketing team). Our first venture together was senecalearning.com, which scaled to 12M users and a successful acquisition in 2022.

After launching in May 2024, we already have hundreds of clients, millions in ARR and are growing quickly. This is an opportunity to join the ride at an early stage. We’ve raised over £10M in capital to scale Novabook.

Novabook was born out of our personal experiences with the shortcomings of traditional accountancy practices while running Seneca. After dealing with inefficient software and unreliable accountancies for 8 years, we believe it's time to tackle these challenges head‑on.

Culture

We are well‑funded but the hardest period of a start‑up is always the first couple of years, when the team is small, and you are heavily relied on personally. But this also exposes you to the most interesting period of a company’s lifecycle and also the period where you can learn the most & earn the most material rewards. You won’t be expected to work evenings & weekends, but you will be expected to work hard when on the job.

About the role

Events are a core part of our growth strategy. Our event series has grown our network to 10,000+ founders and investors in less than two years. They are central to our brand awareness, partnership retainment and finding new business. We host our own weekly events and also sponsor partner events where relevant.

We are looking for an Events Associate to join our Growth team and help ideate, plan, and deliver our weekly events.

You’ll play a hands‑on role across the full event lifecycle; from developing concepts and curating guest lists to making sure everything runs seamlessly on the night. You’ll typically attend around two events per week, most of which take place in the evenings.

For us, a great event means a full room of high-quality founders, a seamless experience from start to finish, and an atmosphere people genuinely enjoy and want to come back to.

You’ll work closely with the Partnerships Director and CEO, as well as alongside the Sales team to ensure our events build strong relationships and generate a healthy pipeline of relevant leads.

We’re a young, ambitious and hard‑working team that moves quickly, has high standards, and has a lot of fun along the way.

Your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Taking responsibility on running our repeat event series, including private founder dinners, networking socials, pitch events and panel events.
• Running campaigns to find exciting new startups and founders, and inviting them to our events, ensuring we always have a full and high quality room.
• Supporting on planning and running internal socials including office events, quarterly socials for the whole company and ad‑hoc events for the team.
• Managing key promotional channels including WhatsApp communities, LinkedIn presence and online footprint to help promote our events and attract audiences.
• Ideating epic event formats that will help build our brand within the startup community.
• Develop and manage event budgets, ensuring all expenses are tracked and events deliver high return on investment
• Responsible for event guests and registrations using analytical skills to select the best and most promising registrants.
• Identifying relevant events to sponsor that will deliver high return on investment
• Help to build out our partnership pipeline, identifying new opportunities and partners we should be working with and facilitating introductions to the Partnerships Director.

What we’re looking for in you:

• You’re highly organised and naturally think ahead, making sure nothing falls through the cracks.
• You have a strong eye for detail and care about getting the small things right.
• You have some experience organising or running events; this doesn’t need to be in a professional setting, but professional experience is a big plus.
• You’re interested in the UK startup ecosystem and ideally already have a network within it, although this isn’t essential.
• You’re proactive and self‑sufficient. You’re comfortable taking ownership, figuring things out and getting things done with minimal guidance, while also being a great team player.
• You’re a clear and confident communicator, both written and spoken, with native‑level fluency in English.
• You’re comfortable speaking and presenting in front of a room, whether that’s 10 people or 100+.