Community Manager

Job description

the employer Studio

is Sanabel's in-house venture studio, building and supporting the next generation of category-defining companies in Saudi Arabia. Along with building new projects, the studio is activating the the employer early-stage community, a curated network of founders, operators, and partners across accelerators, studio projects, and talent programs that fuel the ecosystem in which we invest.

Backed by the employer, the studio combines deep capital, operational strength, and a coded founder community to deliver an early-stage experience that is faster, deeper, and more authentic than anything else available in the Saudi market today.

We're looking for a

Community Manager

To fully own the early-stage the employer community, building the membership, rituals, events, performances, and performance system that turns it into the place every early-stage founder in Saudi Arabia wants to be a part of.

The Role

What you'll have here.

Lead the community, and performances as one integrated activation function across all the employer Center programs.

Plan and manage a consistent event cadence across dinner parties Founders, Master Classes, Demo Nights, AMAs, Partner Sessions and Featured Keynotes, covering every program within the centre.

Manage the entire event lifecycle: concise, series of how-to events, speakers, registrations, hosting, and follow-up.

Own a community scorecard: attendance, NPS, frequency, members New recruits and founder pipeline contribution, hub-wide.

Maintain a single source of truth for member, deals, and partner engagement across the hub.

Activate alumni and senior operators as a living layer of the community, not just attendees.

Partner closely with accelerator, venture studio, and talent teams as equal stakeholders, reporting to none, to keep the experience smooth and consistent. Across the centre.

Be on stage when needed: MC, moderate, open and closed events.

Profile

You're likely to be a good fit if...

You have 4-7 years building communities, programs or managing operator-facing events, in venture, accelerator, startup or premium hospitality contexts.

You have Experience managing the cadence of large-scale recurring events and can talk about the results behind it.

You have experience creating partnerships and negotiating commercial terms.

You make clear, organized decisions under pressure and hold yourself accountable to the KPIs you set.

You are highly organised, and have a reliable system for managing your business.

You feel comfortable in Dealing with data: extracting, interpreting, and presenting it clearly.

She is fluent in Arabic and English, and moves easily between institutional conversation, negotiating with partners, and updating leadership.

Nine d Work on a schedule of events, including evenings and occasional events. Weekend.

Bonus: Existing network in the founder ecosystem in Saudi Arabia or GCC and previous experience working with or within a VC platform team.

The Environment What it's like to work here in reality.

Initiative and Ownership: This is not a coordinating role. You will have real space to experiment, create, and build community in ways no one has described to you, while increasing awareness of the employer Center programs across the ecosystem.

Quality without compromise: Our reputation is built one event at a time. You'll have the mandate and support to maintain the bar, even when it means saying no to a partner, speaker, or "good enough" offer.

Early stage, true scale: We're at the beginning of something wit.

Requirements

• Weekend.
• Bonus: Existing network in the founder ecosystem in Saudi Arabia or GCC and previous experience working with or within a VC platform team.
• The Environment What it's like to work here in reality.
• Initiative and Ownership: This is not a coordinating role.

Skills