Community and Events Manager

Job Description

Were looking for a hands-on Community and Events Manager to own Stings events build our community and shape the experience of being in our office.

Sting backs exceptional founders with bold ideas giving them the early deep and tailored support they need to build impactful global companies. The events you run the community you build and the office you create are how we show up for them day to day alongside our alumni partners and investors.

This is one of the highest-leverage roles at Sting. Hundreds of founders partners and investors will form their impression of Sting through your work.

What you will do:

Plan and run events

• Own events end-to-end from concept to follow-up
• Produce Stings flagship moments including Demo Day
• Run partner investor startup and ecosystem events
• Secure and manage event vendors including catering and AV
• Curate speakers agendas and content for events
• Use AI and modern tools to do more with less

Build and nurture the community

• Make every cohort founder feel known and supported
• Activate and grow our alumni network of 500 startups
• Build relationships with founders across the startup ecosystem
• Create moments that connect founders investors partners and the larger startup ecosystem

Manage the office and visitor experience

• Make the office somewhere founders employees and partners want to be
• Keep the office running day to day including ordering supplies managing deliveries maintaining conference rooms and office tech and setting up the space for events
• Stay on top of the small practical details like cleaning out the fridge or changing a light bulb
• Shape how the space looks and feels

Skills & Requirements

We are looking for someone with 3-5 years of experience in events community or program operations.

You are a...

• Strong relationship builder - You build trust easily and remember what matters to the people you work with.
• Service-minded - You take pride in making things easier for the people around you and put their needs first.
• Composed under pressure - You stay calm when things go wrong and solve problems in real time.
• No task too big or small - You move easily between planning a polished investor event and restocking the kitchen without ego about either.
• Detail-oriented - You notice and act on the small things that determine whether an event lands.
• Reliable - You commit to a vendor founder or partner and the thing happens. Deadlines and handshakes hold.
• Strong sense of taste - You have a clear point of view on how a space and an event should look and feel.

Experience & capabilities

• Experience running events end-to-end including large complex events with hundreds of attendees
• Experience building engaged communities online and offline
• Strong project management across multiple workstreams and tight deadlines
• Experience with event platforms (e.g. Luma Confetti) online community platforms (e.g. Circle) CRMs (e.g. HubSpot) design tools (e.g. Canva) and video editing
• Daily use of AI tools to draft organize and move faster
• Well connected in the Swedish startup ecosystem
• A good understanding of startups and founders needs
• Fluent in both Swedish and English

What matters in this role

• Passion for startups technology and founders trying to change the world
• Ability to manage multiple events without losing the details
• A drive to push what events community and the office can be at Sting
• Thrives in a fast-paced in-person startup environment
• High standards for craft taste and consistency
• Curiosity and a drive to build and improve including using AI to do more with less
• Flexibility for evening and occasional weekend events

What Sting Offers

• A role at the heart of the leading ecosystem in the Nordics for high-growth startups
• A small skilled and dedicated team where your work genuinely matters
• A fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you can grow and shape your role over time
• The opportunity to work alongside exceptional founders who are solving the worlds biggest challenges
• A culture where your word is your word where wed rather try something new than run the same playbook and where we always go the extra mile for the founders we back

About the company

Backing bold ideas. Reshaping what matters.

Thats what Sting stands for. We back exceptional founders with bold ideas that reshape what matters - providing early deep and tailored support to increases their success and staying engaged as they build impactful global companies.

Named the Best Startup Accelerator & Incubator in the world Sting is the leading ecosystem in the Nordics for startups with high growth and impact potential. Since 2002 Sting has backed more than 500 startups with exceptional founders who combine purpose with execution.

Our vision is that the founders and startups we back build successful companies that solve the worlds biggest challenges at global scale. We work with founders who challenge the status quo and push the world forward in Climate & Energy Health & Life Science Digital & AI and DeepTech. From idea to international scale we stand beside the teams building lasting global impact helping them Achieve Success Faster.

Sting is owned by the Electrum Foundation a public-private foundation. As we are independent and not-for-profit we can truly put our founders interests first. Any returns made goes directly back to Sting and helps us continue to support new startups and keep the community thriving.

If you are passionate about startups believe in entrepreneurship and innovation as forces for positive change and love working in an fun and high-paced entrepreneurial environment with highly skilled colleagues then Sting is for you!

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