Interim Senior Vice President, Founder Success, Innovation Banking, Secondment Greater London, United Kingdom Area

The Company is seeking a senior leader to ensure continuity and high-quality delivery of established founder engagement programmes during a temporary secondment. The role focuses on building trusted relationships with early-stage founders, investors, and ecosystem partners, while supporting business development through introductions, events, workshops, and network connections. Responsibilities include managing programmes and events end to end, responding to founder and ecosystem enquiries, supporting relationship managers, and developing partnerships. The successful candidate will also prepare stakeholder communications, track engagement and outcomes, gather feedback, and ensure activities meet governance, risk, compliance, and brand standards. Candidates should have a deep understanding of the seed and Series A ecosystem, including fundraising and the founder journey, and experience managing an accelerator, founder, or innovation programme. Proven ability to plan and deliver events, workshops, and networking activities is required, along with an established network across accelerators, professional advisers, universities, industry groups, and early-stage investors. Experience working toward ambitious origination targets and building authentic, commercially focused relationships is important. Strong presentation and facilitation skills, sound judgment, independence, and the ability to deliver high-quality work at pace are also required.

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