Events Graduate

Novabook; Greater London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Novabook is seeking an Events Graduate to join its Growth team in London. You will ideate, plan and deliver our weekly events, with typical evenings for attendance.

You’ll work closely with leadership to build relationships and a strong pipeline of leads through high-quality founder and investor events. You’ll manage the full event lifecycle, from concept to execution, and help grow our brand within the UK startup ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational skills and ability to plan multiple events.
• Attention to detail and reliability in managing logistics.
• Experience in organising or running events is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Run repeat event series including dinners and networking events.
• Develop campaigns to find startups and founders to invite.
• Plan and execute internal and quarterly company socials.
• Manage promotional channels (LinkedIn, WhatsApp) and online presence.
• Brainstorm and prototype engaging event formats to grow brand.
• Develop event budgets and track expenses for ROI.
• Handle guest lists and registrations with data-driven selection.

Skills

Organised

Attention to detail

Event planning

Communication

English native

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 Graduate 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+.

About the application process

The hiring process consists of four steps:

• Introductory form
• Meet with COO and Partnerships Director
• Final Round Interview

In a final round process, we value candidates more highly if they know a little bit about our business already. In case it’s useful as a light-touch way of getting up to speed:

• - Here is our company’s newsletter in Reels form.
• - And here are our interviews with the UK’s best startup founders.