IRL Producer, Slow Ventures

New York or SF
Reports to Yoni Rechtman

Why IRL matters at Slow

We believe great business still gets done in person. Most of the best partnerships we've seen, between founders and investors, their first hires, and most important customers, started in a room.

That's becoming more true as AI floods every feed and outbound is getting easier to send and easier to ignore. When anyone can reach anyone, the rooms you're actually in matter more.

IRL is how we bring our ideas to life. We write a lot about where the world is going, and events are where those ideas meet the people building it. Done well, they put Slow at the center of the networks we care most about.

We are hiring a producer to make IRL at Slow really sing.

The role

We're hiring someone to run Slow's IRL: the events where our founders, our partners, and the people who shape startups meet.

IRL has always been part of how Slow works. We run hackathons like Bot School and Slop Con, Slow Takeoff, mini-conferences on cyber and SMB, movie screenings, and a constant stream of themed dinners.

Now we want to go bigger and weirder. You'll run all our flagships, keep the dinners going, and come up with formats nobody else in venture would try. You'll work directly with our partners.

This is an executive producer role. You make each event happen: working with partners to shape the concept and the content around it, recruiting speakers, while owning production, planning, and delivery. You drive the project and bring our partners clear decisions and specific asks.

What you'll own

You own our events end to end, from the first idea to what happens after. The goal is more events, better events, and less lift for our investment partners in executing them.

• Flagships. Summits, themed gatherings, and big moments built around the companies we back and the ideas we care about.
• Production. Venues, vendors, budgets, run-of-show, and day-of. Most events get 80% of the way there. You own the last 20%, so every event is the one people talk about afterward.
• Ideas. Pitch formats, activations, and experiences. We want engaging, original events that connect to and help elevate our best/most important ideas. We have more ideas than time, so help us choose which ones to make real.
• Outcomes. Follow-up, intros, and tracking what each event produced for our companies and for Slow.
• Dinners and smaller gatherings. A steady cadence, run cleanly.
• Partners. Co-hosts, venues, brands, communities, and sponsors. Find them, manage them, and make them want to come back.

Who you are

You love IRL and you love startups. That matters more than anything else here.

You've built serious gatherings before, from concept through follow-up: conferences, summits, activations, launches. They don't have to be in tech. What matters is that you owned the whole thing and know where it breaks.

You're scrappy. You've pulled off great events on budgets and timelines that should have made them impossible. You come up with ideas, not just run-of-show. You have a point of view on what makes a room work, and the judgment to spot what's off before anyone else does. You own outcomes, don't wait for a playbook, and can juggle several projects, a budget, and a bench of vendors without dropping anything.

Nice to have:

• A network in New York or SF tech, media, or culture.
• Terminally online.
• Relationships with brands, venues, or communities you can bring with you.
• Instincts for turning an event into content.

Who this isn't for

This isn't an event planning job. If you want a playbook handed to you, would rather execute someone else's ideas than pitch your own, or think of events as logistics, it's not for you. Same if you've never been curious about startups.

The details

• Reporting: Yoni Rechtman and supporting the team
• Location: New York or SF, in person with travel between the two cities. You'll be at every event.
• Budget: You'll own the events budget.
• Compensation: $140K to $180K base, plus benefits (health, dental, 401k matching).

How to apply

Skip the cover letter. We'd rather see your work. Send us three things at yoni@slowbots.co:

1. Your past work. Links to two or three events you produced: photos, video, the invite, a recap. Add a few lines on the one you're proudest of: how it came together, what broke, and what came out of it.
2. One event for Slow. A one-page concept for something you'd run in your first 90 days: the idea, the point it serves, who's in the room, the format, a rough budget, and how you'd know it worked.
3. Something you made happen on your own. A side project, a party series, a supper club, a community. Anything nobody asked or paid you to do.

Specifics beat polish.