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Community Manager at Sanabil Studio in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Job Description
Sanabil Studio is Sanabil's in-house venture studio, building and backing the next generation of category-defining companies in Saudi Arabia. Alongside building new ventures, the Studio is activating Sanabil's early-stage community, a curated network of founders, operators, and partners across accelerators, studio ventures, and talent programs that fuels the ecosystem we invest in. Backed by Sanabil, the Studio combines deep capital, operating muscle, and a programmed founder community to deliver a faster, deeper, and more credible early-stage experience than anything else available in the Saudi market today. We are looking for a Community Manager to own Sanabil's early-stage community end-to-end, building the membership, the rituals, the events, the offerings, and the performance system that turn it into the place every early-stage founder in Saudi wants to be part of.
THE ROLE What you'll own here.
- Lead Community, Events, Performance, and Offerings as one integrated activation function across all Sanabil Hub programs.
- Plan and run a consistent event cadence across founder dinners, masterclasses, demo nights, AMAs, partner sessions, and signature flagships, spanning every program under the Hub.
- Manage the full event lifecycle: brief, run-of-show, speakers, registrations, hosting, and follow-up.
- Own the community scorecard: attendance, NPS, repeat-visit rate, new members, founder pipeline contribution, Hub-wide.
- Maintain a single source of truth for members, events, 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 program teams as equal stakeholders, not reporting into any one of them, to keep the experience seamless and consistent across the Hub.
- Be on stage when needed: MC, moderate, open and close events.
THE PROFILE You're probably a fit if...
You have 4–7 years building communities, programs, or running operator-facing events, in venture, accelerator, startup, or premium hospitality contexts.
You have experience running a recurring event cadence at scale and can speak to the results behind it.
You have experience originating partnerships and negotiating commercial terms.
You make clear, structured decisions under pressure and hold yourself accountable to the KPIs you set.
You are highly organized, with a reliable system for managing your work.
You are comfortable working with data: pulling it, interpreting it, and presenting it clearly.
You are fluent in Arabic and English, and comfortable moving between a founder conversation, a partner negotiation, and a leadership update.
You are happy to work an event schedule, including evenings and the occasional weekend.
Bonus: an existing network in the Saudi or GCC founder ecosystem and prior experience working with or inside a VC platform team.
THE ENVIRONMENT What working here actually looks like.
Initiative & Ownership: This is not a coordination role. You'll have real room to experiment, get creative, and build the community in ways nobody has prescribed for you, while raising awareness of Sanabil Hub's programs across the ecosystem.
Quality Without Compromise: Our reputation is built one event at a time. You will have the mandate and support to hold the bar, even when it means saying no to a partner, a speaker, or a "good enough" run-of-show.
Early Stage, Real Scale: We are at the beginning of something with significant ambition. The community you build now will define how Sanabil Hub shows up to founders for the next decade.
WHAT YOU GET FROM US
An accelerated curve: you'll learn more about how the Saudi early-stage ecosystem actually works here in 12 months than most roles offer in three years.
Meaningful upside: long-term incentives tied to the value you help create across the ecosystem.
Mentorship that matters: direct access to Sanabil investors, studio founders, and operators who have built and scaled real ventures.
Premium gear, day one: fully set up and ready before your first day