Program & Experience Design Lead - Venture Café

The primary vehicle to engage the region’s innovation community is the weekly program, the Thursday Gathering, which attracts 300-500 people per week. You will be responsible for curating and leading this event that regularly convenes members of the innovation community in an inclusive and open way. This event strives to complement and amplify, not substitute or compete, with other existing innovation community gatherings in Massachusetts.

Venture Café includes an informal social gathering to create opportunities for serendipitous encounters as well as structured conversations and educational sessions (live presentations, panels, info sessions, demotables, etc.). You will grow a pipeline of community organizations and partners to offer high-quality content based on monthly themes. Your primary role is to be the “chief curator” in order to design thoughtful, high-quality experiences for attendees. Your work may also include working with members of the broader community to organize regular and special events.

A cornerstone of Venture Café Cambridge is the Thursday Gathering. Beyond executing on the Thursday Gathering, you will contribute to other programs that will help build a more inclusive innovation economy - inclusive of all types of industries and people. You will be responsible for the creation and implementation of programming that reaches into the area’s underserved communities.