Community & Partnerships Associate (Internship)

About the Role

Lyzr builds AI agents for enterprises. The events team runs executive dinners, hackathons, conference side events, and community nights across NYC, Europe, and the Middle East. We are looking for someone to grow the community around those events by bringing in the right people, making them feel like VIPs, building partnerships, and maintaining relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Community and Partnerships

• Build a community around Lyzr events to encourage repeat attendance and referrals.

• Identify partnership opportunities and initiate conversations with co-hosts, venues, startups, VCs, and other communities.

• Transform one-off connections into lasting relationships.

• Guest List and ICP Curation

• Plan and curate guest lists based on our ideal customer profile (ICP), ensuring the presence of relevant titles, companies, and industries.

• Research and develop target lists for each event.

• Maintain a balanced room composition of prospects, customers, partners, and speakers.

• Invites and Outreach

• Plan and execute pre-event outreach, including invites, reminders, and personalized nudges to ensure attendance.

• Collaborate with our India team to scale outreach, share lists, and coordinate across time zones.

• Send post-event outreach to make guests feel remembered.

• Hosting

• Host events by greeting guests, facilitating introductions, and maintaining energy in the room.

• Build one-on-one connections with attendees before, during, and after events.

• Ensure no one is isolated during events.

• Luma and Logistics

• Set up and launch Luma pages and landing pages for events.

• Manage RSVPs, approvals, waitlists, and reminders.

• Assist in planning events from start to finish with the event producer.

• Tracking and Data

• Track all relevant data, including invites, RSVPs, attendance, conversations, and notes.

• Manage and clean event data post-event, providing full context for follow-up.

Qualifications

• A natural host who is warm, confident, and comfortable interacting with CIOs.
• Enjoys meeting people and remembers details about them.
• Passionate about building communities and relationships.
• Extremely organized and enjoys tracking details.
• Ability to write outreach messages that elicit responses.
• Capable of working effectively with a remote team in a different time zone.
• Comfortable with Luma, Google Sheets, Notion, and HubSpot, or demonstrates quick learning ability for new tools.
• Possesses strong attention to detail, noticing errors like misspelled names or missing RSVPs.
• Proactive and able to complete tasks without needing reminders.

Extra credit:

• Experience building or running a community, club, or event series.
• Experience in community building, sales, or partnerships.
• Familiarity with a CRM.
• Existing network within the NYC tech or startup scene.

Details

• Hours: 20/week, including evening events.
• Location: NYC and Jersey City events in person; other work is remote.