Founding Director AI Hub

The Netherlands is full of extraordinary AI founders. Deeply technical wildly ambitious building products that are reshaping entire industries. And right now theyre scattered across the country each brilliant each building but doing it in isolation.

We believe that changes when you put them under one roof. When the best AI founders in the country share a building grab coffee in the same kitchen and collide in the hallway they make each other better. They move faster. They hire from each others networks. They attract capital talent and international attention. Thats The Stack the National AI Hub in Amsterdam. A curated membership-driven home base for scaling AI companies with quantum founders joining the mix as both fields converge. Starting at 4000 m² growing fast with 8.5 million committed. Techleap and a cooperative of AI startups are backing it. Prosus Google theyre at the table. The city of Amsterdam is in. Now we need the person who builds it.

Your role as Founding Director
This is a founder role. You get a budget a mandate and a set of partners who believe in this. From there you build. Youll serve as Director of TechHub B.V. reporting to the shareholders (Techleap and the AI Cooperative). Youll work closely with strategic partners and navigate relationships with sponsors the city of Amsterdam investors and most importantly the founders who will call this place home. Your main responsibilities:

• Build the hub from scratch. Shape the value proposition what founders get why they join why they stay. Design a membership model that earns its price. Create an environment where engineers and technical founders feel at home where the density is addictive and the community is unmatched.

• Deliver the physical space. Manage the renovation of 4000 m² and work with architects who understand that a great space creates great collisions. Plan for growth toward 10000 m² as the community scales.

• Hire and lead the team. Hire a team of 5 to 10 people who thrive with ownership and move at startup speed.

• Own the business. Full P&L responsibility. Tight governance. Clean finances. You run the company you know that operational grip is what eventually turns into something real.

• Be the voice. Represent the hub on stages in media and in the rooms where the future of Dutch AI is being shaped. When someone says National AI Hub they think of you.

• Connect the ecosystem. Link the hub into a network of Europes leading tech destinations. Attract international founders corporate partners and investors into the community.

This role is rare and so is the person who fits it.
Heres what matters most:

• Youve guided plenty of organisations through strategic plans.

• Youve started scaled or run a business from scratch. You know what it takes to make the first hire sign the first lease and sell a vision before it exists.

• The AI community knows and respects you. When founders see your name attached to this hub they lean in. They trust you because youve been in the arena yourself.

• Youve carried real responsibility: P&L legal team board. And you can stand on a stage and make 500 people believe in something thats still taking shape.

• Your network opens doors in the Netherlands and internationally.

• You can brief an architect manage a renovation and shape a physical space or you know exactly who to bring in for what you cant do yourself.

• You communicate with force and warmth. On stage in writing one-on-one over coffee.

• You live and work in the Netherlands. Fluent English is required. Dutch is a plus.

This role is a real chance to build something from scratch that an entire country needs with real money behind it real partners around it and total freedom to make it yours. We also offer:

• A front-row seat at the fastest growing AI community in the Netherlands.

• A team of people who are just as excited about this as you are.

• Salary up to 10200 gross/month.

• 8% holiday allowance.

• 15% pension allowance self-allocated.

• Home office and BYOD allowance.

• Travel allowance.

• Hybrid setup.

• Full-time contract.