Talent Community Lead

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global builds companies with corporate partners and develops ventures with prospective founders.

What you will do

• Build and maintain a high-quality Founder Bench of experienced founders, operators, and domain experts aligned with partner focus areas.
• Source founders through portfolio founders, investors, operator communities, university spinout offices, and other partnerships.
• Run first conversations, assess founder archetypes, sectors, stages, and availability, and maintain accurate relationship data.
• Plan and run four quarterly community activities, including sector founder drinks, weekly open studio office hours, partner events, and bench gatherings.
• Keep founders engaged through updates, introductions, early visibility of new venture themes, Slack or WhatsApp communities, and newsletters.
• Provide the talent team with a longlist of 5–8 founders for each new venture within its first two weeks and report monthly on bench performance.

Requirements

• 3+ years of founder-facing experience in VC platform or scouting, an accelerator or founder programme, startup community building, or founding a company.
• A founder and operator network that can be activated quickly, plus the ability to grow it.
• Strong judgement when evaluating founders in first conversations and the ability to explain assessments in writing.
• Track record of running events that generate follow-up, from 15-person dinners to larger community nights.
• Ability to present and sell an unusual offer: building a venture designed with a corporate partner rather than pursuing the candidate’s own idea.
• Disciplined pipeline management and experience keeping a CRM or tracker accurate across hundreds of relationships.
• Commitment to building diverse founder pipelines, with relevant experience.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of, or a network in, healthcare, deep tech, or B2B sectors.
• Experience working with corporate partners or in corporate venturing.
• Familiarity with Airtable or similar tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work based in London.
• Full-time employment within the FF Operations department.
• Work closely with the talent team, venture design team, corporate partners, founders, investors, operators, and university programmes.