Senior Events Lead - Longevity

About Founders Forum:

Founders Forum Group is an event-powered community and family of businesses supporting innovative entrepreneurs at every stage of their journeys. Founded in 2005, our invite-only forums unite founders, investors, corporate and government leaders to tackle era-defining questions in iconic locations across the globe. Since 2019, Founders Forum has partnered with Informa Tech to celebrate the strength and diversity of UK tech through London Tech Week

In 2023, Founders Forum acquired Tech Nation. The transfer will see FF Group continue to execute against Tech Nation's mission to empower tech entrepreneurs, scale innovative startups, and provide a united platform for UK tech founders.

Founders Forum Group's Values:

• Community first: More than just fellow founders. Everything we offer is centred around the founders we work alongside.
• Entrepreneurial to our core: Preserving our startup mentality is the key to being able to empathise with and fully support our growing community.
• Founding the future: We are forward thinkers. Always at the forefront of innovation.
• Excellence without ego: We don't take ourselves too seriously, but are proud of what we do. We work together, recognising the expertise of those around us, and understand the value in differing points of view. We are committed to excellence and always hold ourselves to the highest standard.

Job Description

We are looking for a commercially-minded, senior events leader to take full strategic ownership of our Longevity Event Series - a fast-scaling portfolio that sits at the intersection of health innovation, startup ecosystems, and investor engagement. This role is ideal for someone with a track record of launching and growing event portfolios, building high-level strategic partnerships, and delivering high-impact content experiences that resonate across the tech sector.

Our ambition is to create the leading global platform for innovation in longevity - this is an exciting opportunity to build a flagship series that defines the future of human health and performance.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Own and grow the global Longevity Event Series, including developing the long-term strategy. 
• Oversee the full event lifecycle - from concept development through delivery - overseeing content, partnerships, ops, and marketing (with support from internal teams).
• Build and deepen relationships with key strategic partners, investors, health tech innovators, and government stakeholders.
• Curate informative programmes, implementing and testing creative content formats. 

Essential experience and skills:

• Proven experience owning and scaling an event series or portfolio in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Demonstrable track record of launching new events, including validation, research, speaker recruitment, and delivery.
• Comfortable managing P&L responsibility, forecasting, and commercial performance.
• Ability to forge positive relationships at a senior level with multiple different internal and external stakeholders. 
• Commercially astute with proven experience as a practical deliverer.
• Demonstrable experience crafting compelling event agendas that maximise engagement and learning. 

Desirable 

• Domain knowledge of longevity science, biotech, or health innovation is a plus, but not essential. 
• Experience with typical sales and marketing tools (e.g. Salesforce)

We offer a range of flexible, discretionary benefits to our team. These currently include:

• 25 days contractual annual leave
• Enhanced discretionary leave provision, including an additional day off for your birthday and leave between Christmas and New Years Day
• The option to work remotely anywhere in the world for 3 weeks/year (1 week at Easter and 2 weeks during July and August) 
• AXA Health insurance, with the option to add dependents
• Life Insurance
• AIG Smart Health access including online GP access and mental health support
• Employee Assistance Program
• Competitive pension provision
• Perkbox membership with generous monthly allocation of points for day to day purchases
• Learning and development annual allowance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Lunch 1x/week, office snacks, and regular team drinks
• Quarterly team activities and annual team trip/day out 
• Access to the Founders Forum Group network of businesses and wider tech ecosystem

We currently work from our office 4 days a week with the option to work from home on Fridays.