Senior Collaboration Lead

Alkemio; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkemio, based in The Hague, seeks a senior, relationship-driven strategist to grow partnerships in the Dutch public sector. You will work closely with the CEO and CSO to position our open-source platform for digital sovereignty and expand our ecosystem across organisations.

This role emphasizes collaboration over sales; you’ll help leaders realise what’s possible, translate client needs into long-term value, and contribute to MVP shaping as the platform evolves.

Qualifications

• 7+ years across multiple roles, capable of advising senior leadership and hands-on execution.
• Native-level Dutch with fluent English in a bilingual, public-sector context.
• Relationship-driven, mission-focused, and able to build lasting partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Build deep, lasting relationships with clients and partners; embed with their teams.
• Identify and win new partners alongside the CEO and CSO through conviction.
• Open leaders’ eyes to possibilities when collaboration crosses organisational boundaries.
• Stay close to the platform; understand it and translate value to clients.
• Feed field learnings back into strategy and product development.

Skills

Dutch native

English fluent

Relationship-driven

Public sector knowledge

Tech-for-good mindset

Job description

Den Haag - Full-time - 3+ days/week on site - Dutch public sector & innovation ecosystems

Who we’re looking for

Someone who believes in people and in technology, and the power of combining in-person and online collaboration. Someone who, over time, will embrace our platform with their whole heart, and can therefore share it with genuine conviction.

We’re not looking for a salesperson who happens to work at a tech company. We’re looking for someone who is excited about what technology can do for the way people work together, especially in the spaces between organisations, where most of the important, hard problems actually live, and where most people don’t yet realise there’s a better way to work. And we’re building it as an open-source, European platform designed for digital sovereignty, deliberately built to prevent the lock-in, data extraction, and dependence on US big tech that most digital platforms run on today.

About Alkemio and this moment

The hardest societal challenges can’t be solved inside a single organisation, they need public, private, and civil-society actors working together in a digital home designed for the collaboration. That’s what Alkemio is built for. We’re reaching MVP now, a formative stage where the person who joins shapes what comes next.

We’re an open-source, tech-for-good company building a platform people can trust: EU public values, steward-ownership (voting rights held by stewards, not for sale), and designed for digital sovereignty. For the public-sector partners you’ll work with, that’s often a key driver, and you’ll carry that story. We’re a young, global team with hubs in The Hague and Sofia, and we meet in person a couple of times a year to have fun and set direction.

We’ll be upfront: we’re proud of where the product is heading, and we’re still actively improving it, including UI/UX. If shaping a product in the making energises you, you’ll love it here; if rough edges would keep you up at night, this probably isn’t the right moment, and that’s OK.

What you’ll do

• Build deep, lasting relationships. Partner with clients so closely they feel you’re part of their team: understand their challenges, help them succeed, and grow from value, not pressure.
• Bring in new clients alongside the CEO and CSO. Identify and win new partners through relationships and conviction, not a numbers game.
• Open people’s eyes. Help leaders and teams see what becomes possible when collaboration works across organisational boundaries, and inspire them to want it.
• Stay close to the technology. Use the platform, understand it, form views on it, and help clients get real value from it. Your belief in the product is earned through actually using it.
• Feed the ecosystem back in. Turn what you learn in the field into signals for our strategy and product.

This is a commercial role, but not a typical sales role. It isn’t transactional and it isn’t a numbers game. It’s about relationships, trust, and helping people realise possibilities they hadn’t seen.

Who you are

• Optimistic and energising by nature. You bring positive energy into a room, and people feel it.
• A believer in technology for good, and someone who has actually engaged with it. You’ve tinkered, built something, or have always been the one who figures out how things work. Your enthusiasm for what tech enables is real, not abstract.
• Relationship-driven and mission-driven. You measure yourself by clients’ success and lasting partnerships, not by the size of a single deal.
• A high-potential operator with range, around 7+ years across multiple roles, comfortable both advising senior leadership and rolling up your sleeves to make things happen.
• Native-level Dutch and deeply fluent operating in and with the NL public sector, with fluent English too (we’re a bilingual company). This is about language and context, not nationality.
• A team player who wins by making the team win. You’ll work very closely with the CEO and CSO day to day, and with the rest of us. Not a lone operator.
• Ready to grow into leadership. There’s no team under this role today, but there’s every intention for it to grow, and we’d love someone with the experience and appetite to build and lead one over time.

Nice to have

• An existing network in public-sector innovation / collaboration (or an analogous ecosystem).
• Startup / scale-up go-to-market experience, you’ve helped take something to market before.
• Comfort using AI in how you work and think, we’re an AI-forward team.

Why this matters

We’re building a platform designed for digital sovereignty and for effective collaboration in the spaces between organisations. It’s an ambitious, meaningful journey, and at this stage every conversation is, in part, helping people picture a better way of working. If that’s the kind of thing you’d find exciting, we’d love to meet you.

Where we’re starting

Our beachhead is the Dutch public sector: the innovation programmes, knowledge networks, and ecosystems where public, private, and civil-society partners already need a neutral place to work together. It’s where Alkemio is landing first, and where your network and credibility in the NL public sector will matter most from day one. It’s a starting point, not the horizon: the vision reaches far wider, better collaboration in the spaces between organisations, for all of society.