Ecosystem & Events Coordinator, Founder School

Aalto University Founder School operates as a startup within the university: moving fast, delivering results quickly, iterating, piloting, and pivoting. We enjoy working with people who are excited to make things happen on short notice.

This role is a great preparation for future work as a startup founder or in hectic and demanding leadership roles. This position suits someone early in their career with an interest in ecosystem and community building, entrepreneurship, events, and communications in a fast-moving environment.

Job duties may change over time. Teamwork and open communication are a must. This job requires physical presence most workdays. Work and collaboration is done in English.

The full-time fixed-term Ecosystem & Events Coordinator drives Founder School’s events and ecosystem-facing activities: planning, producing, coordinating, communicating, documenting, and measuring.

The Coordinator has the main responsibility for organizing Founder Talks and other Founder School events, while also helping Founder School build stronger connections with students, alumni, founders, mentors, investors, student organizations, and relevant partners across the startup ecosystem.

The role ensures that Founder School is visible on campus, that events are well-executed and well-attended, and that different parts of the ecosystem can meaningfully engage with Founder School.

This role is a great preparation for future work in startups, community building, ecosystem development, event production, entrepreneurship education, or fast-moving leadership roles. 

The Ecosystem & Events Coordinator will work with the Founder School team to:

• Organize Founder Talks and other Founder School events, including startup events, workshops, info sessions, and community gatherings.
• Coordinate speakers, student interviewers, moderators, venues, registrations, volunteers, event logistics, and follow-up.
• Create high-quality event experiences before, during, and after each event.
• Support event-related communications, including event pages, emails, newsletters, social media input, posters, speaker briefings, and post-event follow-up.
• Help develop measurements and feedback systems for event quality, audience growth, ecosystem engagement, and participant satisfaction.
• Be the face of Founder School actively at relevant startup ecosystem events and ambassador activities, pop-ups, workshops, and collaborations with student organizations.
• Support collaboration with founders, mentors, investors, alumni, student organizations, and ecosystem partners around Founder School activities.
• Support alumni and mentor engagement through events, touchpoints, updates, and opportunities to contribute.
• Work with Aalto central communications and events teams to ensure Founder School activities are visible, aligned, and professionally executed.
• Support other Founder School activities when needed, including Founder Sprint, Founder Minor outreach, grants activities, and alumni development.

What’s in it for you?

• You will get full ownership over top-tier events such as Founder Talks talking directly with speakers, national broadcasters and other important stakeholders
• You will create events that do more than fill a room — events that build ambition, relationships, and momentum.
• Gain a strong network in the Nordic startup ecosystem.
• Gain experience that is highly relevant for future work in startups, community building, or leadership roles.
• You will be part of a small, ambitious team that trusts you by default to make decisions

Who is this role for?

We are looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about startups and ready to empower future startup founders
• Is a self-starter with high agency and able to figure out what needs to be done and what is missing
• Is an ecosystem and community builder at heart
• Is familiar with Aalto’s entrepreneurial ecosystem (a plus, not a must)
• Has strong organizational and communication skills
• Has experience in event production, student outreach, community building or communications (a plus, not a must)
• Has an eye for design and is able to product assets for marketing (a plus, not a must)
• Speaks and writes fluent English (Finnish is a plus)

This position starts in August 2026. We aim to start interviews right away and we may hire a suitable candidate even before the deadline of this application.

Culture & team

You will join a fast-paced startup-like team within the university. We focus on community and results, aiming to train the next wave of bold founders from Aalto. Some days, we kick off and wrap up work a bit later than usual, if we have a team member traveling. You can find the current team here. Feel free to contact us with any questions you have.

We also encourage you to read more about our team culture. 

How to apply

Apply through Aalto University’s recruitment system by June 24 by sending your

• CV
• Motivation letter and references
• Assignment (see below)
• Link to portfolio (optional)

Please note: Aalto University’s employees and visitors should apply for the position via our internal system Workday.

Assignment

If you are interested in this role, make it yours! Make use of your agency, ambition and energy to proactively produce something that allows us to understand who you are.

It can be anything. We would love to be positively surprised. Aalto Founder School is for people of action.

If you have a hard time coming up with anything, perhaps consider a strategy proposal for the Founder School, a writing of yours on something essential in the startup world, a video where you teach a startup topic in an inspirational way or an AI agent that helps entrepreneurs. As mentioned, it can be anything.

More about Aalto University:

Aalto.fi
youtube.com/user/aaltouniversity
linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/
www.facebook.com/aaltouniversity
instagram.com/aaltouniversity

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