People Operations Manager

Blackbird

Location Sydney or Melbourne
Team Startmate
  • Closing: 5:10pm, 24th Dec 2019 AEDT

Job Description

Community Manager Job Description

Blackbird is looking for a Community Manager to deliver world-class programs and events for our Founders, Investors and the Australian and New Zealand Startup communities.

Blackbird is a community-driven VC and your work will be instrumental in shaping Blackbird and the communities we serve. This is a chance for you to get up close and personal with some of the most remarkable people in Australian and New Zealand, and to help them on their journey to becoming great.

About Blackbird

Blackbird is a venture capital firm whose mission is to supercharge Australia and New Zealand’s most ambitious founders. We do this by raising venture capital funds, investing into the best startup companies and helping them succeed. We have half a billion dollars under management and a portfolio of over 60 companies including some of the most successful Australian startups such as Canva, Zoox, Safety Culture and CultureAmp.


We are inspired by investment firms such as Berkshire Hathaway and Bridgewater Associates. Like the companies we back, we want to build a business that lasts for decades and produces excellent returns for our investors. Most of all, we want to support our region’s most talented founders build category-defining technology companies.


We’ve written a lot about what we love at Blackbird, so check out our Medium if you want some more information about us.


About the role

The Community Manager will support the Head of Community in delivering Blackbird’s  community program. Together you will work to deliver projects across five key areas; Blackbird’s Founder community, our Investor Network, Education, Australia and New Zealand’s Startup Ecosystem and Blackbird’s Culture and Brand.


In addition to this, you will have scope to develop your own initiatives and programmes.


Some of the projects you’ll be working on include:

Sunrise

Our annual homage to Founders is a 500-1200 capacity arts and technology conference. Our aim is to inspire a new generation of founders through storytelling and a bit of magic.

First Robotics

The social mission of Blackbird is to inspire young people through technology and entrepreneurship. First Robotics is a program designed to encourage young people take an interest in STEM. Each year we help raise money for FIRST teams and we come up with new ways to support the program.

Founder Circles

We experimenting with new ways to help our early-stage founders develop the skills they need to become great CEOs. You’ll be building community and skillsets through innovative content and programming.

Investor Events

Blackbird is fortunate to have a strong network of investors -many are ex-founders. You’ll be creating content and programming that strengthens this professional network and helps to educate them on our investment thesis.

Position Requirements

Your background is less important than the key skills and desirable attributes


Project management: You can run large and small projects from start to finish. You can handle several of these at a time without breaking a sweat. In particular, you know how to plan and execute on all aspects of events, including production management, marketing and sales, programming, sponsorship and everything in between.


Disciplined and Reliable: You thrive on the order you create. You like routine and you get lots of satisfaction from completing projects and crossing things off lists.


Detail orientated: A project is the sum of many parts and you take pride in perfecting each little part.


Execution Focused: Big ideas excite you but not as much as getting stuck into the work. You love getting to the very end of a project having dotted every “i” and crossed every “t”.


Hospitality mindset: We have a sense of ‘Enlightened Hospitality’, which simply means that the whole team has a focus on helping each other and collectively has an obsession for customer service to our founders and underlying investors. You should too.


Exceptional communication skills: Great at communicating both internally and externally. You can write well and have experience 


Founder empathy: Creating a company is a very different mindset to optimising a company. Experience in either creating a company yourself, even if it was not successful or working with founders at the earliest stages is a plus.


One team, one dream: You will work closely with the whole team at Blackbird, in particular, the Head of Community.


We’re looking for someone who is as passionate as us about building an iconic investment business. You must have a high ownership mentality and the ability to take responsibility for goals and outcomes.


This is a full-time role and the candidate can be based at our Sydney, Melbourne or Auckland offices or remote. If you wish to work remotely, clear communication and ownership is key. Blackbird also offers flexible working, whether it’s working from home or leaving early to pick up the kids from daycare or school.









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Applications closed Tue 24th Dec 2019

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Applications closed Tue 24th Dec 2019