Role overview
The Community Executive will be responsible for building, engaging, and nurturing the BHIVE startup community through events, partnerships, and digital engagement, while representing BHIVE at external forums.
Experience
- Experience: 2–5 years in community building and management, event management, startup ecosystem, or related roles.
- Prior experience in a fast-paced startup or coworking/tech ecosystem.
Key responsibilities
- Plan, execute, and manage on-ground and online events, including new event concepts tailored to the startup ecosystem.
- Represent BHIVE at internal and external events, networking meets, and startup forums.
- Drive social media engagement for BHIVE’s startup relations page, including creation of photos, reels, and other content for better coverage and visibility.
- Coordinate with the outbound team to generate and qualify leads from events and community activities.
- Build and manage a strong startup community, including founders, investors, and ecosystem partners.
- Develop and manage partnerships that add value to the BHIVE community and drive attendance/engagement for events.
- Ensure timely content capture at events (photos, videos, testimonials) and collaborate with marketing for publishing.
Requirements and skills
- Strong interest in the startup ecosystem and ability to engage with founders and partners confidently.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills; ability to represent the brand professionally at events.
- Hands-on experience with event planning and execution (from concept to on-ground coordination).
- Working knowledge of social media platforms (Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.) and basic understanding of content formats (reels, stories, posts).
- Ability to multitask, manage stakeholders, and work with cross-functional teams (marketing, sales/outbound, operations, Customer Success, Facilities, Investor Relations).
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, startup-like environment with weekend/evening events when required.
Nice-to-have
- Prior experience in community building for coworking spaces, accelerators, or startup programs.
- Basic content writing or scriptwriting skills for event and social media collaterals.
- Comfortable using and adapting various AI tools for productive deliverables
