City Manager - Dallas

What You’ll Do

• Host and curate events: Plan and execute dinners, salons, and small-format gatherings that attract premium business owners.
• Foster 1:1 relationships: Build personal connections with attendees, becoming a trusted connector and resource in the community.
• Own referral flywheels: Encourage and track peer-to-peer referrals, ensuring the right attribution back to your channel.
• Leverage CRM rigorously: Log every relationship, event touchpoint, and referral in CRM; ensure accurate attribution and reporting.
• Follow up with intent: Send personalized notes, share relevant content, and schedule 1:1s to deepen engagement beyond the event.
• Performance reporting: Measure and communicate the ROI of your efforts (pipeline generated, conversion rates, referral multipliers, CAC payback).
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Flex’s marketing, sales, and data teams to align messaging, share community insights, and optimize attribution strategies.
• Represent Flex authentically: Act as the local face of Flex — knowledgeable about our product, our mission, and the needs of business owners.

What You Bring

• 2–5 years of experience in investing, business owner support, partnerships, or ecosystem/community-building roles.
• Proven ability to host and lead high-value events that drive meaningful relationships.
• Existing networking and relationship-building skills with business owners.
• Experience working with CRM tools (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce, Affinity) and applying attribution strategies.
• Data-driven mindset: you’re comfortable tying community activity to business outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; you can confidently represent Flex in front of business owners and investors.
• Entrepreneurial and scrappy — you thrive in ambiguity, love being on the ground, and can spin up a dinner, follow up with guests, and report results all in the same week.
• Bonus: Prior experience as a founder, operator, or in a startup community role.