Valemark
Tables & Events Lead
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Valemark is a modern members' society: a club built around people, not premises.
About Valemark
Every Thursday we seat strangers seeking belonging in restaurants across London: strangers chosen to fit, seated on purpose. Around Tables sits the rest of the club: member events through the season, communities we call Clubs, and a members' marketplace. We are a small, funded team building the club London wishes existed, and Tables is its front door.
The role
You make dinners happen, and then you make ten times as many dinners happen.
Internally the founders call this job "the Secretary's hands": the person whose taste picks the rooms, whose judgement seats the tables, whose messages carry the club's voice, and whose run sheets mean the whole thing looks effortless. That half of the job is craft, and it never goes away.
The other half is scale. We seat around one hundred people a week today. Your mandate is to take that to a thousand, and the route there is not working ten times harder; it is deciding, again and again, what must stay handmade and what must become a machine. The taste stays human. Nearly everything around it can be systemised, automated or handed to AI, and you will be the one who does it. Roughly equal parts producer, casting director and systems builder. We do not expect you to arrive knowing how to do all of that; we expect meticulousness, proactiveness, and real hunger to learn what AI makes possible, and to figure the rest out with us.
The best person for this job zooms. In to the wrong fork, the misspelt name card, the one guest who needs a call rather than a message. Out to the shape of the week, the pipeline of rooms, the question of which of this week's tasks should never need doing by a human again. Most people are good at one altitude. We need both.
What you will own
- The rooms, and the pipeline of rooms. Finding and booking restaurants that look and feel right, and, more importantly, sound right: rooms where six strangers can actually hear each other. At ten tables a week you can charm your way through; at a hundred you need a proper venue pipeline: sourcing, trialling, standing weekly allocations with the places worth returning to, and terms negotiated like someone spending their own money.
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The composition. Seating is the product. You will read applications carefully, investigate, and compose each table, balancing decades, energies and intents, deciding who sits beside whom and why. As we grow, you will turn instinct into repeatable craft: use AI to produce first draft seatings and surface non obvious pairings, use our data to learn which combinations actually catch fire, and keep the final pass unmistakably human. The machine proposes; you decide.
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The operations. Confirmations, dietaries, place cards, day of logistics, the Tuesday cancellation cutoff, and the Wednesday evening surprises: a flooded venue, a plus one request, a late train. You will run it all at pace, and you will also shrink it. Anything you have done twice by hand should already be on its way to being a template, an automation or a prompt. The test we will hold you to: the hours spent per seat should fall every month, while the experience per seat gets better.
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The members, at scale. You are often the first human a diner deals with and the reason they come back; the second seat is our north star. At a thousand seats a week that warmth has to survive volume, so you will build customer service that scales: a written voice so good it works in a template, self serve for the routine, sharp escalation paths for the moments that need a person, and refunds and rebookings handled so graciously that even a bad night ends well.
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The patterns. You will notice things: which rooms make conversation easy, which pairings rebook, which messages get replies, what tends to go wrong on a Wednesday. Your job is to take those patterns and use AI to act on them, so every dinner is composed a little better than the last.
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The events. Beyond Thursdays: member hosted occasions you will encourage and support, seasonal moments worth building for, our larger nights that bring the whole club into one room, and Marble, our elevated table, where the brief is simply: considered, surprising, unforgettable. We care more about imagination than budget.
A typical week
- Monday: Confirm the week's rooms and open the seating.
- Tuesday: Close cancellations and settle the final tables.
- Wednesday: Final lists to the restaurants, brief the table hosts, put out whatever catches fire.
- Thursday: Place cards printed by lunch, at the venue early to check the table and the noise, greeting at the door by ten to seven, home when the second bottle is doing its work.
- Friday: Thank yous, rebook nudges, the notes that make next week's composition smarter, and an honest hour spent automating whatever annoyed you most this week, so it never annoys you again.
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You, probably
You have run dinners, events or rooms where the point was what happened between the people: a supper club, a members' club's events desk, a beloved restaurant's front of house, a boutique events practice. You type fast, write warmly, and stay calm at 6pm on a Wednesday. You have opinions about acoustics. You notice the wrong fork.
And: you are the person who, having noticed the wrong fork, builds the checklist so no fork is ever wrong again. Nobody can do absolutely everything, and we are not looking for someone who can; we are looking for meticulous attention to detail, genuine proactiveness, and excitement about learning to use AI to scale what you do. You can be ruthlessly efficient without ever letting a member feel processed, because the systems exist to protect the human moments, not replace them.
You would rather run one unforgettable evening than three forgettable ones. And then you would want to work out how to run fifty unforgettable ones a week.
Pay and location
London, full time, on site. £40,000 to £50,000, and potentially equity if you do well.
How to apply
No CV screening, no cover letter. Email luke@valemark.com and we will send you the assessment. The application is a working assessment, about an hour, and it is the job in miniature: you will seat two tables, book real rooms, survive a Wednesday inbox, and design something unforgettable. Then an interview with the founders. If you do that well, the final stage is a paid trial: you run one real Thursday with us.
Valemark. The club built on people, not premises.
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