US Talent and Community Lead - TopTal - United States

The Toptal Community currently hosts daily across the world each week, ranging from exclusive technical conferences in Argentina, to panel chats in NYC, to happy hours in Croatia.

As the U.S. Talent and Community Lead, you will join a high-energy team whose job is to engage and support thousands of Toptal business consultants, engineers, and designers in the United States, both online and in person at events and conferences. You will work with dozens of local leaders to help coordinate high-impact, high-end events and encourage learning, communication, and collaboration to accelerate the already thriving Toptal community. You will work with dozens of core team members to support and grow the infrastructure needed to scale our community—both internally and externally. You will work closely with the Community, Executive, Corporate Marketing, and Enterprise Sales Teams on special projects and growth initiatives to support the long-term success of some of Toptal’s most important initiatives.

This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere.

Responsibilities:
Build the online and offline Toptal network in the United States, with a focus on building a thriving Toptal Business community.

Create and maintain strong external partnerships with leading business conferences, publications, and media companies to facilitate the growth of Toptal’s presence in the business talent space of major U.S. cities.

Work with Marketing and Enterprise Sales teams to organize events and coordinate marketing initiatives in the business services world.

Plan and execute a variety of large budget, high impact initiatives, ranging from black tie social events to strategy consulting conferences.

Monitor, optimize, and report on growth metrics and KPIs, with a focus on finding sustainable strategies that will ensure the long-term growth of the Toptal Business network.

Participate in weekly team meetings and strategy sessions.

Communicate constantly with teams via Skype.

Requirements:
Experience at a top strategy consulting company and/or an MBA from a top business school.

A strong, geographically distributed network of professional business talent, preferably with a focus on New York City and San Francisco.

You must be eager to regularly (multiple times per month) travel to high-end business functions in San Francisco, New York City, and London.

To excel at this position, you must be energetic and proactive, with a strong ability to leverage your network to facilitate high-impact initiatives in coordination with Toptal’s Marketing and Enterprise Sales teams.

You must be comfortable with tech industry culture, preferably with experience working with developers and designers.

You must be a self-starter with lots of initiative and creativity.

You must be an excellent leader with an exceptional ability to explain complex concepts clearly while dealing with multiple projects and priorities.

You need to be comfortable with all aspects of global recruitment and management of global teams, and you must always be an outstanding brand ambassador.

While a technical background is not required, you must be excellent at using data and quantitative approaches for decision making.

You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.