Founder Community Architect - Saudi Early-Stage Ecosystem

Sanabil Venture Studio; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanabil Studio, Sanabil's in-house venture studio in Saudi Arabia, is hiring a Community Manager to own the early-stage community end-to-end, building the membership, rituals, events, offerings, and performance systems that make it the place founders want to be.

The role focuses on leading events across programs, managing lifecycle, tracking metrics like attendance and NPS, and coordinating with accelerator, venture studio, and talent teams to ensure a seamless experience.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years building communities, programs, or running operator-facing events in venture, accelerator, startup or premium hospitality contexts.
• Experience running a recurring event cadence at scale with measurable results.
• Experience originating partnerships and negotiating commercial terms.
• Clear, structured decisions under pressure with KPI accountability.
• Highly organized with a reliable system for managing work.
• Comfortable with data: pulling, interpreting and presenting clearly.
• Fluent in Arabic and English; able to move between founder conversations, partner negotiations and leadership updates.
• Willing to work an event schedule including evenings and occasional weekends.

Responsibilities

• Lead Community, Events, Performance and Offerings as one integrated activation function across all Sanabil Hub programs.
• Plan and run a consistent event cadence across founder dinners, masterclasses, demo nights, AMAs, partner sessions, and signature flagship programs.
• Manage the full event lifecycle: brief, run-of-show, speakers, registrations, hosting, and follow-up.
• Own the community scorecard: attendance, NPS, repeat-visit rate, new members, founder pipeline contribution.
• Maintain a single source of truth for members, events, deals and partner engagement across the Hub.
• Activate alumni and senior operators as a living layer of the community.
• Partner with accelerator, venture studio and talent teams to keep the experience seamless and consistent.
• Be on stage when needed: MC, moderate, open and close events.

Skills

Community building

Event management

Arabic & English fluency

Job description

Sanabil Studio, Sanabil's in-house venture studio in Saudi Arabia, is hiring a Community Manager to own the early-stage community end-to-end, building the membership, rituals, events, offerings, and performance systems that make it the place founders want to be.

The role focuses on leading events across programs, managing lifecycle, tracking metrics like attendance and NPS, and coordinating with accelerator, venture studio, and talent teams to ensure a seamless experience.