Manchester Founders
Co-Founder- Marketing
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Manchester Founders is a new community designed to create meaningful, high-quality connections between ambitious founders across Manchester.
The community was created in response to a common challenge of building a business: it can be isolating, particularly when there are few opportunities to have honest conversations with others facing similar challenges. While many networking events can feel formal, transactional or focused on pitching, Manchester Founders aims to offer something more personal, curated and enjoyable.
The community brings together founders across different stages and backgrounds, with a focus on finding the right people to connect with rather than simply maximising numbers. Events include curated dinner tables of up to six founders, matched around factors such as business stage, team size and experience, alongside larger social events, summer gatherings, hikes and other experiences shaped by the interests of the community.
The initial concept was tested in 2025 and received positive feedback. Manchester Founders is now being developed into a larger, established community and brand.
The business is currently pre-revenue, with an ambition to grow its reach significantly while reinvesting a proportion of early profits back into the business.
Role Description
The Co-Founder – Social Media & Marketing will take ownership of the social media and content strategy for Manchester Founders, helping to establish the brand, grow its audience and attract the right people to the community.
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This is an opportunity to join at an early stage and play a significant role in shaping how the brand develops. The role is designed to work alongside a full-time role or other commitments, with flexibility around when and how the work is undertaken.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Developing and executing the social media and content strategy
- Creating engaging content across Instagram, LinkedIn and other relevant platforms
- Building a strong and recognisable Manchester Founders brand
- Growing an engaged and relevant audience, particularly within Manchester's founder and business community
- Developing campaigns to drive awareness, event attendance and community growth
- Creating content around events, founders, businesses and the wider Manchester entrepreneurial scene
- Supporting the development of partnerships and future commercial opportunities, including sponsorship
- Using audience insights and performance data to continually improve content and growth
- Helping shape future event formats and community experiences based on member feedback and engagement
- Supporting outreach and converting the online audience into an active offline community
Qualifications & Experience
- Strong experience in social media, content creation and digital marketing
- Demonstrable ability to build an engaged audience and grow a brand's presence
- Strong understanding of Instagram and short-form video content
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills
- Comfortable representing a brand and engaging directly with founders and business owners
- Experience developing and executing digital marketing campaigns
- Commercially minded, with an interest in how social media can contribute to audience growth, partnerships and revenue
- Self-motivated and comfortable taking ownership in an early-stage environment
- Able to work flexibly alongside other professional commitments
- Previous experience as a founder, working within a startup or building a community is desirable but not essential
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Who This Opportunity Is For
This opportunity is suited to someone who is genuinely excited by community building, social media and creating something from the ground up.
The aim is not to create another corporate networking group. Manchester Founders is intended to become a community where ambitious people can have honest conversations, build meaningful professional relationships and, importantly, meet people they genuinely enjoy spending time with.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help shape the brand, community and commercial model from an early stage, with significant scope to influence how Manchester Founders develops as it grows.
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