Senior Associate, WeWork Labs

About us

WeWork is a global platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around the world with space, community and services that enable them to do what they love and create their life’s work. 

WeWork India, is run by the Indian real estate conglomerate, Embassy Group and commenced operations in 2017. Currently, it has over 62,000 members and 43 locations and six cities in India - Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida, Hyderabad, and Pune. Its portfolio comprises small and medium enterprises, start-ups, large businesses, freelancers, etc. Our mission is empowering tomorrow’s world of work. 

Flexibility is paramount in today’s workforce and the WeWork India team is laser-focused on fuelling growth opportunities and fortifying its position as the leading flexible workspace brand with customisable and innovative solutions for all businesses. In October, WeWork India made its first investment in Bengaluru-based conferencing and collaboration platform, Zoapi. Founded in 2019, Zoapi is a unified conferencing and collaboration solution provider for enterprise companies, coworking spaces, and education centres.

WeWork India’s latest brand campaign ‘Great Inspires Great’, showcases the breadth of products at WeWork India which makes it the ideal end-to-end workspace solutions provider in a hybrid and flexible world. WeWork’s products include digital offerings like On-demand, All Access, Managed Office by WeWork, and its space as a service portfolio consisting of private offices, custom build offices, and conference rooms, among others.

WeWork India is the country’s leading flexible workspace provider that offers a personalised experience to different types of professionals with varied needs through its innovative and customised offerings. WeWork India is home to a community of diverse set of people – from innovators to visionaries to dreamers and go-getters, making it a space where people meet and inspire each other to achieve greater heights of success. You can learn more about our team and organisation here. Read more about our culture code to understand how we do things.

About WeWork Labs
WeWork Labs is the investment, innovation and acceleration arm of WeWork India. By enabling access to our workspaces, founder communities, investments and innovation lab, we work with early-stage startups and enterprises and to accelerate their growth journeys.  

About the role

Events and the Digital community are the cornerstone of our interaction with the startup community. We are looking for driven, entrepreneurial professionals with experience in scaling and managing events and community engagements within the startup ecosystem. If you’re someone that enjoys high accountability and driving business value for the startups, then this one's for you!

As part of a lean, growing team, you'll play a pivotal role in bringing our initiatives to life, ensuring seamless experiences that leave a lasting impression on our members and the startup ecosystem and represent WeWork Labs within the startup ecosystem. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategic Events and portfolio support: Our catalyst for member engagement, brand elevation, and community expansion. They drive sponsorships, amplify WeWork Labs initiatives, and deliver differentiated experience in the ecosystem.

• Spearhead a high-quality event calendar, prioritizing for maximum impact on the startup ecosystem by attracting A-list speakers, mentors, and investors
• Source innovative partners and event formats to deliver member experience and help with business growth
• Market analysis of startup events and curating differentiated engagements 
• A keen focus on data analysis of each event, not limiting to, including feedback, number of WeWork Labs members etc
• Drive planning and execution of Jumpstart (including generating revenue, and enhancing brand and member engagements)
• Using events to support the business growth of Growth Campus/Portfolio companies

Channel partnerships: A dedicated channel to build partnerships with global and local organizations to expand our reach and add value to our community.

• Craft a compelling channel to draw applications to WeWork Labs’ products like Growth Campus, Investments & Product Studio from events, community and partnerships (contributing to revenue expansion and extended reach) 
• Foster connections with key ecosystem enablers (e.g., government, universities, investors, communities etc)
• Maintaining and growing relationships with global and local technology organizations to increase the value of cost-saving credits for founders

Community: WeWork India’s dedicated community for the startup ecosystem within the WeWork member base and external ecosystem.

• Consistent effort on building and maintaining business community engagement with the member base and beyond
• Managing and growing the community from events and creating an engagement plan after they attend events on the digital platform

Education Desired Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience driving community development, and building strong partnership relationships.
• Proven track record of organizing high-impact business events, particularly with unicorns, emerging startups, and investors
• In-depth understanding of the startup ecosystem driving meaningful community engagement
• Self-motivated professional with a hands-on approach and excellent multitasking abilities
• Thrives under pressure in a fast-paced, evolving environment, and the ability to be agile
• Strong decision-making skills complemented by analytical thinking and program management expertise
• Highly organized with a data-driven mindset to learn from successes and failures for rapid advancement. 
• Ability to optimize processes to save time and resources, with more focus on working efficiently
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, and can work successfully and effectively with cross-functional teams  
• Excellent communication skills, including public speaking and online engagement
• Experience in creating avenues for business growth of early-stage founders is highly desirable
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build deep relationships with founders/CXOs/leadership and represent WeWork Labs in public forums

Equal Opportunity Employer

WeWork India is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our employees and members. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We expect all employees to embody our values and all aspects of employment including the decisions to hire and promote, are based on merit, competence, performance and business needs.

Our total rewards philosophy is aimed at providing compensation that is competitive, performance linked and helps us attract and retain the talent we need to drive our business forward and serve our members. As part of WeWork India, our commitment to you is that  you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters collaboration, flexibility and inclusion.

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Last updated on Sep 19, 2024