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Blume Ventures is one of India’s leading early stage venture firms; founded in 2011, by Karthik Reddy and Sanjay Nath with a view to reimagine startup financing. Over 3 funds and 80+ portfolio companies later (Unacademy, GreyOrange, Dunzo, Purplle, smallcase etc) it has emerged as one of India’s most loved VC funds.

Blume is looking for a Community Manager. This is a full-time role based out of any of Bangalore, Delhi or Mumbai. Please note we are gradually moving to full time WFO with strong social distancing rules in place. If you are based outside Bangalore, Delhi NCR or Mumbai, you should be willing to relocate to any of these cities.

Community Manager role

Blume presently has 80+ active companies in our portfolio, across varied industries, business models, stages and cities.  There is lots they can learn from each other. And there is lots we can do to encourage them to share with the wider community, as well as get external mentors and experts to advise and support the next wave of great founders and startups.

To enable and support these founder interactions, cross-learnings and collaboration, as well as to help drive increased knowledge sharing and dissemination within the Blume network and across the wider startup ecosystem, we are looking for a Community Manager.

The Community Manager will execute the above via

• developing programs and platforms that bring people from Blume portfolio, team and affiliates together and deliver measurable value by engaging and learning from each other, and through experts and opinion leaders. Some of these may look like meetups and workshops, online or offline, but all of these will seek to forward business goals of Blume or portcos.
• enabling knowledge sharing by compiling and sharing of best practices amongst each other through blogs, notes.

In addition to the above, s/he **will be also responsible for engaging with founders and CXOs of Blume portfolio and constituents in the wider ecosystem to add value to Blume or our portcos; this is over and above her or his role in driving community initiatives.

The ideal Community Manager will take end to end ownership of these initiatives ensuring that these are delivering to the desired goals, by tracking outcomes and performance. S/he will work in collaboration with members of Blume’s investment and platform teams, leveraging their connects as well as expertise.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience with at least 2 years of experience in event, organizing or community / channel marketing / network relations roles
• exposure to tech and startup community needed
• excellent spoken and written communication skills
• excellent networking skills; some one who enjoys connecting people to each other
• self-starter with an ability to thrive in ambiguity
• have strong outcome and output orientation; a get things done spirit

How to apply