Senior Collaboration Lead

Rotterdam Innovation City; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alkemio is building a platform designed for digital sovereignty and trusted collaboration in the Dutch public sector. We are at MVP-ready, seeking a Senior Collaboration Lead to grow our network and shape the next phase of the product.

You’ll work in a bilingual environment with Dutch and English, reporting to the leadership team, and you’ll help expand our presence in The Hague and beyond, with a focus on public-sector ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Native Dutch proficiency and fluent English in a bilingual work environment.
• 7+ years across multiple roles, with leadership and advisory experience.
• Strong network in NL public sector and ecosystems.
• Startup/scale-up go-to-market experience.
• Comfort with using AI in work processes.
• Relationship-driven and mission-driven.
• Willingness to grow into leadership and build teams.

Responsibilities

• Build deep, lasting relationships with clients and partners, acting as part of their extended team.
• Identify and win new partners alongside the CEO and CSO through relationships and conviction.
• Inspire leaders and teams to see the possibilities of cross-organisational collaboration.
• Stay close to the technology, use the platform, and translate value for clients.
• Provide feedback from the field to inform strategy and product development.

Skills

Dutch (Native)

English (Fluent)

Relationship-driven

Leadership potential

Public sector network

Go-to-market experience

AI awareness

Job description

Senior Collaboration Lead

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 genuinely 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.

If that lights you up, read on.

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 genuinely 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.

How we work is different too: we’re adopting an organisational model based roughly on Holacracy, self-managing circles and roles rather than a hierarchy, applied pragmatically on our own terms. We rolled out the first phase in early 2026 and are still building it out, so you’ll want to be comfortable finding and shaping your own role.

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 genuine 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 genuine 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, though this isn’t a requirement.

Why this matters

We’re building a platform designed for digital sovereignty and for genuinely 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 genuinely 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.

How to Apply

Sound like you? Reach out to [e-mail] with your CV and a brief note on why this role speaks to you.

Know someone who’d be a great fit? Download the one-page flyer and share it: Senior Collaboration Lead flyer (PDF).

Links:

• The platform: https://alkem.io
• Alkemio organization: https://alkemio.org