Director, Events & Ecosystem Initiatives

LvlUp Ventures

LvlUp Ventures is a global venture capital firm and startup ecosystem backing more than 1,300 companies across our funds, accelerators, and investment initiatives.

We’re hiring a Director, Ecosystem Initiatives & Eventsto build, grow, market, and execute LvlUp’s global founder events — while helping shape the broader founder experience across our funds and initiatives serving thousands of companies annually.

A major part of this role will be helping leadLvlUp Ecosystem Initiatives, our startup training and events arm.

Our approach is simple:

Founders should leave every event with a stronger company.

That means practical, VC-led events built around real founder pain points, actionable curriculum, working sessions, useful tools, and measurable value — not passive webinars.

The role also spans pitch days, networking events, lunch & learns, workshops, partner activations, conferences, booths, founder gatherings, and other events across the LvlUp ecosystem.

What You’ll Own

• Help shape thestrategy, event calendar, formats, curriculum, and future direction of LvlUp Ecosystem Initiatives.
• Develop new VC-led events around major founder needs across fundraising, growth, marketing, AI, operations, sales, finance, leadership, and more.
• Help define and improve thefounder experience across LvlUp’s funds, accelerators, and initiatives, reaching thousands of companies annually.
• Turn LvlUp’s investment theses, growth playbooks, portfolio insights, and founder pain points into practicalevent curriculum, playbooks, exercises, frameworks, and resources.
• Design events and sometimes even programs where founders leave with tangible outputs, stronger strategies, better systems, or clear actions they can immediately implement.
• Work withcorporate partners, industry groups, experts, investors, and ecosystem partnersto create high-impact events around real founder needs.
• Learn partner technologies and products deeply enough to incorporate them into useful founder training and workflows.
• Ownaudience growth and marketing, using creative campaigns, partnerships, content, community, and distribution to drive significant participation.
• Own event execution from concept through launch, including curriculum, speakers, sponsors, communications, registration, run-of-show, and follow-up.
• Coordinate events acrossLvlUp’s global hubs and ecosystem.
• Produce and facilitate remote events globally, which represent the majority of LvlUp’s event activity.
• Execute select in-person events, including pitch days, networking events, conferences, booths, and partner activations.
• Track audience growth, engagement, founder feedback, partner outcomes, and other KPIs to continuously improve the event experience.
  

Who We’re Looking For

You should be anentrepreneurial marketer, event operator, and builderwho can take an idea from a blank page to hundreds or thousands of people participating.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Exceptional atmarketing, audience growth, and distribution.
• Highly creative, fast-moving, and resourceful.
• Strong at events, curriculum, programming, and participant experience.
• Deeply interested in startups, venture capital, technology, and company building.
• Able to quickly learn new technologies and teach founders how to practically use them.
• Strong at identifying founder pain points and turning them into actionable events.
• Analytical and comfortable improving events based on performance and feedback.
• Detail-oriented and capable of managing many moving pieces simultaneously.
• Comfortable working with founders, investors, executives, corporate partners, industry groups, speakers, and sponsors.
  

Global Scope

This is a global role, butmost LvlUp events are remote.

Travel is very limited — generally only for select major events or hub activations,a few times per year for a few days at most.

Compensation

Base Salary:$60,000–$120,000, depending on experience and level of ownership.

Performance Bonus:Significant additional upside tied to the growth and performance of LvlUp events and Ecosystem Initiatives, including audience growth, engagement, execution, and partner outcomes.

• This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to help definehow LvlUp educates, engages, and creates value for founders through events at scale— while building major audiences and making every event genuinely impactful.