About the Role

Reporting to Senior Media Associate - Bronte McHenry

Startmate is looking to hire a Community Events Coordinator to activate and engage the Startmate community and broader startup ecosystem through a year-round events program, spanning both virtual and IRL (across Australia and New Zealand) environments. These events are a pivotal part of our media and outreach strategy, and contribute to the broader company vision of making Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup.

Over the past year, Startmate’s community has grown exponentially. We want to supercharge connections across the ecosystem and grow Startmate’s impact through an annual series of strategic online and offline events. You will drive the strategy and implementation of our events activities, with a focus on increasing engagement with Startmate’s range of programs, and strengthening relationships across the Startmate alumni community.

Here is a brief overview of some examples of work you will commandeer:

• Creating a highly strategic year-round events calendar to feed targeted leads into the Startmate outreach funnel, including tracking success metrics related to each event

• End-to-end planning and executing large-scale in-person events, such as Demo Day

• Planning and executing virtual conferences and flagship events

• Planning and facilitating social events both in person and online to bring different parts of our community together

• Where relevant, engaging partner organisations or sponsors to support event activities

• Working closely with the outreach team to increase opportunities for exposure, and create unique content post-event

Position Requirements

Your background is less important than the key skills, which might include:

• Highly organised 

• Creative visionary with an ability to zoom in and manage the detail

• Fast-mover, action-oriented

• Proactive, strategic thinker

• Sociable people-person

We’re looking for someone who is as passionate as us about making Australia and New Zealand the best places in the world to start a company. You must have a high ownership mentality and the ability to take responsibility for goals and outcomes.

This role is fully remote anywhere in Australia or New Zealand. We currently have an office in Melbourne with satellite offices in Sydney and Auckland.

Working at Startmate

We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team is critical to Startmate’s success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We use Applied to ensure every applicant gets an equal chance of success.

We offer:

• Community: The Startmate community is a unique mix of founders, operators and investors — the one thing everyone has in common is ambition. Startmate is much more than just our team, it’s a community built on paying it forward.

• Autonomy: You will have very high autonomy to realise your dreams within your area

• Flexibility: We are a remote-first team with coverage across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Noosa and New Zealand. We currently have an office in Melbourne with satellite offices in Sydney and Auckland.

• Access: You get to work with every well known and less well-known Australian and Kiwi startup, VC and angel — Canva, Safety Culture, Propeller, Vend, Xero, Blackbird, Square Peg, AirTree, rampersand, Folklore — you name it!

• Great vibes: Being able to bring your best self to work is really important to us. We index heavily on wellbeing and engagement to make sure that you’re able to turn up with energy and resilience each day.

• A share of Startmate’s success: We think it is important to share successes with the whole team. All Startmate employees receive carry in our funds and are owners in the management company.

About Startmate 

We’re making Australia and New Zealand the best place in the world to build a startup. We’re achieving that through building a platform that unleashes startup ambition and accelerates exceptional companies.

At our core, we’re a community of the most ambitious founders, operators and investors propelled by a highly-trusted mentor-driven community, and backed by the best angels, venture funds and tech startups in the region.

Over the past decade we have invested in 170+ startups, with a combined value of $2 billion.

We’ve written a lot about what we love at Startmate, so check out our blog if you want some more information about us, and check out our mission, values, and team, and one of our most ambitious goals...