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Growth Lead (Part-Time / Equity-Based) – Blackboard
Location: West London (Field-based across the Richmond-to-Kingston corridor)
Type: Part-Time (Flexible / Set your own schedule)
Compensation: Milestone-Vested Equity Schedule
Experience: Partnerships, User Acquisition, Account Management (Tech/Hospitality background preferred)
About Blackboard
Blackboard is a real-time marketplace app built to bridge the gap between standout hospitality venues and consumers. Hospitality isn't static, and neither are we. Instead of rigid, high-commission discounts, we give operators a live "blank canvas" straight from their phones to drop flash, time-limited, or quantity-limited "Insider Rates" right when they need to.
Whether it’s a flash deal on food, a mid-week drink offer, a last-minute ticket to a local event, or filling a room for live music, Blackboard is the live pulse of the neighbourhood. We are a lean, bootstrapped founding team moving fast across South West London, and we want a future partner to help us scale both sides of the marketplace.
The Role
This is a part-time, highly malleable growth role. We don't care if you are a hungry, high-velocity graduate looking to make your mark, or a top-tier industry professional looking to build a stake in a disruptive startup on the side.
You need to be completely self-directed, capable of setting your own schedule, ruthlessly prioritising your time, and driving growth without someone holding your hand. You will be expected to plug directly into our social, tech, and founding teams, leading with radical honesty and confidently articulating the why and how behind your strategies.
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What You’ll Be Driving:
- Aggressive User Acquisition: This is the core priority. You will find and execute amplification opportunities, forge local community partnerships, orchestrate boots-on-the-ground activations, and align closely with our social media teams to turn local attention into app downloads.
- Bootstrapped Event Creation: You won't have a corporate budget. You will need a gritty, creative mindset to find, build, and attend local events, leveraging partnerships to move the business forward with maximum leverage and minimal spend.
- Venue Account Management: Walking into local pubs, bars, cafes, and event spaces, looking operators in the eye, onboarding them, and helping them maximise their "blank canvas" across food, drink, and live entertainment.
- Growth Engine: Use your ability to be proactive, and find innovative and impactful growth opportunities. This could be partnerships with F&B brands, building relationships with ownership groups or upcoming franchise operators, PR opportunities or even bringing the right people into the business who can also move the needle.
- Cross-Team Integration: Acting as a core connective tissue. You’ll funnel insights from the high street back to our management and tech teams to continuously share ideas for growth.
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About You:
- The Blueprint: You are exceptionally proactive, fiercely independent, and thrive on autonomy. You don't wait for permission; you execute, analyse the data, and report back to the founders with complete transparency.
- The Hustle: You possess a gritty, bootstrapped mindset. You look at a zero-budget growth challenge and see a puzzle to solve through smart partnerships and community alignment.
- The DNA: You have a background, education, or deep passion for Tech and Hospitality. You understand the operational pressures a venue GM faces, and you know how mobile tech solves it.
- The Situation: You are based in or highly mobile across West London (Richmond, Kingston, Teddington, Twickenham, Surbiton) and want a high-upside equity role that fits alongside your current commitments.
The Rewards
We are building this from the ground up, and we want the team driving our growth to own a piece of it. This role is compensated via a milestone-vested equity schedule. As you hit pre-agreed targets regarding venue onboarding and user acquisition, your equity stake locks in, aligning your long-term upside directly with the success of the business.
To Apply:
Drop us your background and a short, zero-faff note detailing a bootstrapped growth tactic or partnership you’ve personally pulled off that actually moved the needle.
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