Events & Ecosystem Manager

Are you looking for a career in venture at one of the fastest growing funds in B2B tech?

Forum Ventures is hiring an Events & Ecosystem Manager to lead our North American events program and grow our founder ecosystem. This is a manager-level role that combines hands-on execution with strategic oversight. You’ll be responsible for running ~80 events annually, creating repeatable but adaptable playbooks, and ensuring every event strengthens our brand, drives founder engagement, and generates high-quality inbound opportunities for our accelerator and venture studio.

We invest in 75+ early-stage companies annually across North America, backing ambitious founders with capital, hands-on support, and a deep founder community. As a member of our marketing team, you’ll play a lead role in building and scaling external founder communities, developing partnerships, and owning our event strategy and execution. This is not a passive role. If you’re looking for a place to design impactful programs, create memorable experiences, and grow Forum’s presence in the startup ecosystem, you’ll fit right in.

• Lead Event Strategy & Execution

  • Own end-to-end event management across North America, such as coffee meetups, hands-on workshops, and large-scale gatherings.

  • Manage a part-time event coordinator for logistics (venues, catering, vendors), while staying accountable for full event delivery.

  • Partner with investment, marketing, and leadership teams to align each event with founder sourcing goals.
    

• Grow and Leverage the Ecosystem

  • Build relationships with universities, accelerators, incubators, early-stage VCs, and founder-facing influencers across major tech hubs.

  • Partner with above to co-host events and access new founder communities.
    

• Sponsorships

  • Identify, pitch, and secure event-level sponsorships.

  • Manage sponsor relationships end-to-end, from initial outreach through contract confirmation and post-event follow-up.

  • Partner with the COO to ensure sponsor deliverables are met and that partners receive strong ROI from their engagement.

• Promote and Amplify

  • Own event promotion, working with marketing teammates to create and distribute assets across digital and partner channels.

  • Drive distribution of events and initiatives through ecosystem partners, extending Forum’s reach into new founder networks.

  • Iterate on established distribution playbooks per city, understanding where founders are finding events and expanding to those channels.

  • Ensure every founder looking for their first check knows Forum Ventures and has a positive brand experience.
    

• Measure, Learn, Evolve

  • Develop and maintain dashboards that track KPIs for all events: attendance, quality of founder leads, sourcing channel performance, cost-per-lead, etc.

  • Run A/B tests on event formats, promo strategies, and partnerships to identify what actually drives strong attendance and pipeline.

  • Share insights with the broader marketing team to improve go-to-market strategies for events.

  • Stay in the know about trends in the event space and make recommendations about how we should evolve and level up.
    

• Budget & Operations

  • Own the events budget to ensure resources are allocated effectively across markets and formats.

  • Leverage AI and agentic workflows to streamline operations, reporting, and promotional processes, creating space for higher-level strategy.
    

• Based on in Toronto, with the ability to attend in person-events and meetings

• Ideally you have 5+ years of experience in events management and community building in tech of VC or tech, but we’re also open to candidates with proven high-volume event execution backgrounds.

• You’re digitally native, comfortable experimenting with AI tools, sharing content online, and finding creative ways to grow community impact.

• You’re metrics-driven. You want to know what worked, what didn’t, and how to make the next one even better.

• You thrive on creating experiences that bring founders and partners together, whether that’s a 200-person summit or a scrappy community meetup.

• You’re endlessly curious about startups and the tech ecosystem, and love being plugged into what’s next.

• You’re a strong communicator and relationship-builder. You can make partners feel valued, distill feedback into action, and keep stakeholders aligned.

• You’re highly operational and organized. Running dozens of events annually with precision and efficiency excites you, not overwhelms you.

• Bonus: You’ve built something yourself, a side hustle, startup, newsletter, or community, and know what it takes to create momentum from zero.
  

Forum Ventures is an early-stage fund, accelerator, and founder community helping B2B SaaS companies go from pre-seed to seed. Over the last decade, we’ve backed hundreds of companies who have gone on to raise $1B+ from top funds like a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, NEA, Craft, Emergence, and many more.

We’re a tight-knit team of operators, investors, and builders who love this work and genuinely care about the founders we support. You'll have meaningful ownership, direct exposure to deals, and the opportunity to shape how we invest and scale in the years to come.