About the role
At Techleap, we're building one of Europe's most valuable communities for ambitious tech founders. Our members are founders of high-potential technology companies who come together to learn, challenge each other, and build relationships that accelerate their growth.
We're looking for a Membership Growth Lead to help grow this community. You'll own the end-to-end journey of bringing exceptional founders into the Techleap Community, from identifying and engaging prospective members to ensuring they have an outstanding start once they join.
This isn't a traditional sales role. Our community is deliberately curated, and not every founder is the right fit. Success isn't measured by the number of memberships sold, but by the quality of the founders who become part of the community and the long-term health of the network.
Ultimately, your mission is to help build a community with such a strong reputation and member experience that the number of exceptional founders who actively seek to join exceeds the number we need to proactively recruit. Outbound efforts are how we get there; inbound demand is how we'll know we've succeeded.
Your mission
Build a predictable, high-quality membership engine.
You'll combine commercial discipline, ecosystem credibility, and excellent judgment to ensure that every new member strengthens the network.
Build the membership pipeline
- Own the end-to-end acquisition funnel for new community members.
- Build and improve a predictable pipeline of high-quality founder candidates.
- Develop acquisition channels through referrals, ecosystem partners, events, investors, founder networks and targeted outreach.
- Measure and improve every stage of the funnel.
Curate, don't just convert
- Qualify founders based on their potential contribution to the community, not simply their willingness to join.
- Have thoughtful, consultative conversations to understand founders' ambitions, challenges and fit.
- Protect the quality, diversity and ambition of the community through strong curation.
Create exceptional member experiences
- Ensure every founder has an outstanding onboarding experience.
- Help new members quickly understand how to get value from the community.
- Partner closely with the wider community team to maximise engagement and long-term success.
Represent Techleap
- Become a trusted face within the ecosystem.
- Build relationships with founders, investors, accelerators and ecosystem partners.
- Represent Techleap at events, roundtables and conferences, and confidently speak to groups of founders when needed.
Who you are
You're energised by meeting ambitious people and naturally build trusted relationships. You're equally comfortable having one-on-one conversations with founders as you are representing Techleap at events or on stage.
You're commercially minded without being transactional. You understand that saying “no” to the wrong member is just as important as welcoming the right one.
You also have a genuine fascination with technology. You're curious about AI, emerging technologies and the broader trends shaping the startup ecosystem, and you can confidently explain why the Techleap Community matters in that context.
You probably bring
- Experience building and managing your own commercial or membership pipeline.
- A consultative approach to relationship building and business development.
- Strong judgment and the confidence to make selective decisions.
- A deep interest in founders, startups and the technology ecosystem.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to quickly build credibility.
- The confidence to represent Techleap publicly; public speaking or moderating events is a plus.
You'll thrive if…
You fit the profile of a Manager of One: someone who creates momentum without waiting for direction.
You naturally identify opportunities, build systems, improve processes and take ownership from idea to execution. You enjoy autonomy and are motivated by building something that compounds over time rather than simply hitting quarterly targets.
Success looks like
Within your first year you will have:
- Built a healthy and predictable pipeline of exceptional founder candidates.
- Increased the number of outstanding founders joining the community while maintaining a high bar for quality.
- Strengthened Techleap's reputation within the founder ecosystem.
- Created a seamless onboarding experience that drives early member engagement.
- Taken measurable steps toward our long-term ambition: a community so valuable and well-known that exceptional founders increasingly come to us, rather than us having to find them.
Interested?
Send your cover letter and resume to bob@techleap.community, mentioning Membership Growth Lead in the subject line. Tell us what you've built — we care more about that than the exact title you've held.
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