Founder Community & Events Lead

Sanabil Studio; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Mentorship that matters

Premium gear, day one

Job summary

Sanabil Studio in Riyadh is seeking a Community Manager to own the early-stage community end-to-end, building the membership, rituals, the events, the offerings, and the performance system that turn it into the place every early-stage founder in Saudi wants to be part of.

The role requires leading events cadence, managing the founder lifecycle, curating founder perks, and maintaining a single source of truth for members, events, deals, and partner engagement with on-stage capabilities as needed.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years building communities, programs, or events in venture, accelerator, startup, or premium hospitality.
• Experience running recurring events at scale with measurable results.
• Originating partnerships with real commercial terms and value.
• Strong decision-making under pressure with KPI transparency.
• Highly organized with operations managed in a system/tool.
• Ability to pull and present data without reliance on decks.
• Fluency in Arabic and English; comfortable with founders, partners, and leadership readouts.
• Willing to work evenings and weekends.
• Bonus: existing network in Saudi or GCC founder ecosystem and VC exposure.

Responsibilities

• Lead Community, Events, Performance, and Offerings as one integrated activation function.
• Build the founder membership as a product, criteria, onboarding, tiers, lifecycle, and the rituals that make people come back.
• Plan and run a consistent event cadence across founder dinners, masterclasses, demo nights, AMAs, partner sessions, and signature flagships.
• Manage the full event lifecycle: brief, run-of-show, speakers, registrations, hosting, and follow-up.
• Originate and curate a portfolio of founder perks and deals across cloud, software, legal, banking, talent, and operations.
• Negotiate exclusive terms with partners and run regular reviews that drop the under-performers.
• Run a structured 1:1 cadence with founders and feed signal back into the investment and studio teams.
• 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.
• Activate alumni and senior operators as a living layer of the community, not just attendees.
• Coordinate closely with accelerator partners, studio venture teams, and talent programs to keep the experience seamless.
• Be on stage when needed, MC, moderate, open and close events.

Skills

Community-building

Event management

Partnership development

Arabic & English fluency

Data-driven decision making

Job description

Sanabil Studio in Riyadh is seeking a Community Manager to own the early-stage community end-to-end, building the membership, rituals, the events, the offerings, and the performance system that turn it into the place every early-stage founder in Saudi wants to be part of.

The role requires leading events cadence, managing the founder lifecycle, curating founder perks, and maintaining a single source of truth for members, events, deals, and partner engagement with on-stage capabilities as needed.