Founding Event & Community Leader

Nectar Social; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental & Vision

401(k) match

Early equity

Career growth

Job summary

Nectar Social is hiring its first Event & Community Manager in a founding role. You will build events and a community function from the ground up, shaping how customers, prospects, and industry voices engage with our brand.

You’ll report to marketing leadership and partner with sales, CS, and the founders to align every touchpoint with pipeline and retention. You will design intimate dinners, executive roundtables, conferences, and always-on digital communities, while defining what “community”

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience in event marketing, community management, or a hybrid role.
• Proven ability to plan and execute events end-to-end, from concept to post-event reporting.
• Experience building or growing an online or in-person community from scratch.
• Comfort working autonomously in an early-stage environment with little playbook.
• Strong project management and the ability to juggle multiple events and workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with a customer-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end event planning for customer dinners, roundtables, webinars, and conferences.
• Manage budgets, vendors, venues, and logistics; build scalable processes.
• Collaborate with sales and customer success to generate pipeline through events.
• Track ROI, attendance, pipeline influence, and feedback for calendar optimization.
• Design and launch Nectar's first customer/industry community program.
• Foster authentic relationships with customers and industry voices; travel 20–30%.

Skills

Event marketing

Community management

Project management

Written communication

Autonomy

B2B SaaS exposure

Tools

Slack

Discord

Circle

Luma

Bizzabo

HubSpot

Job description

Nectar Social is hiring its first Event & Community Manager in a founding role. You will build events and a community function from the ground up, shaping how customers, prospects, and industry voices engage with our brand.

You’ll report to marketing leadership and partner with sales, CS, and the founders to align every touchpoint with pipeline and retention. You will design intimate dinners, executive roundtables, conferences, and always-on digital communities, while defining what “community”