Community Growth Associate

Community Growth Associate

About Lyvly

Lyvly is a shared living start-up, on a mission to give young professionals from across the world a place to feel at home. Modern cities don’t encourage interaction and genuine connections; work, life admin and just trying to get places all stand in our way. Housing is becoming less and less affordable and existing house sharing options are… mixed, to say the least. 

We believe the best way to overcome these challenges is to share your life, and the best place to start is at home. We know it can be challenging living with housemates, but we believe it’s worth it. We offer low-hassle renting, offering all-inclusive rents in good quality homes, with people at similar life stages. We create the space for our members to build a life.

We work with landlords to take the stress out of property management and maximise what they can earn from their home, allowing us to provide renters with the best homes the market has to offer, at various price points.  

Lyvly is backed by venture capital firms Mosaic Ventures, Forward Partners and Venture Friends and have an experienced team of advisors behind us. To thrive in team Lyvly, you need to be excited by our mission and motivated by the desire to build something that will bring meaningful impact to people’s lives. 

The role

We’re in the early stages of an exciting journey to build one of Europe’s leading Co-Living companies and we’re looking for an entrepreneurial Community Growth Associate to join our Community Sales function. 

You’ll be building strong relationships quickly with prospective Lyvly Members over an initial call and occasionally on tours of our Homes. Responsible for filling available rooms in our portfolio, you’ll understand the pain points sharers in London experience and are committed to helping people find the best solution for them. 

We’ve got playbooks to get you up and running, but there is a large degree of freedom for you to develop your own Sales technique and identify the best sources of new Member leads. 

What you’ll do

• You’ll be targeted and incentivised by the number of new signed Member agreements.
• You’ll build relationships with prospective Members, delivering Lyvly’s value prop and mission to them with the aim of closing them onto signed agreements. 
• Source leadsthrough existing channels and those you can create. 
• Work with third party providers to carry out referencing.
• Develop an intricate knowledge of all homes in the Lyvly portfolio, our neighbourhoods and Members.
• Consistently developing knowledge and understanding of the shared-living property market and buyer journey.
• Managing member renewals, including suggesting pricing changes where appropriate. 

About you

• You have the gift of the gab and build relationships without trying.
• You’re an excellent listener and can empathise with people’s needs. 
• You’re comfortable with targets and are motivated by hitting them. 
• Sales experience in a similar early stage start-up or real estate environment is preferable. Please do still apply if you meet the other criteria.

Character and attitude matters as much as qualifications and experience. To succeed you’ll need to be:

• A self-starter, comfortable in ambiguous environments and able to define your own workload in order to hit targets. 
• Comfortable with failure - things don’t always go to plan and every mistake is an opportunity to learn and develop.  
• Willing to get stuck in - you don’t shy away from taking on things that aren’t strictly in your remit. 
• A team player - you make decisions in everyone’s interest and go above and beyond to help others. 
• Honest and trustworthy - you are willing to challenge the status quo and be challenged yourself. 
• Ambitious - you throw yourself at new challenges and opportunities to learn new things.

What we value: 

• Ownership. You are the expert in your field and so can own the problems and find solutions. We’re always looking for ways to better ourselves and what we do every day. 
• Feedback. We are constantly seeking feedback, both for ourselves and for our product, to find ways to improve across the company. 
• Moving fast. Fail fast and learn - we’d rather make mistakes than miss opportunities. We’re trying to build something new and we do this through action. 
• Focus on impact. Focus on the highest impact problems first, even if it means allowing other things to fail. 

What’s in it for you?

Well, aside from working at the early stages of building and scaling a new, exciting product, with a talented team that really cares…

• £28,000-£35,000 + commission depending on experience. We’re interested in hearing from a range of candidates so if you think you might fit the brief, please do apply. 
• Meaningful equity in the company.
• Unlimited holiday - we all take ownership of our areas of responsibility and take the time off we need. Taking time off is encouraged and celebrated. 
• All-access WeWork membership. We meet at Waterloo on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but aside from that, you can work from any WeWork you like, or at home. 
• Macbook/PC and phone.
• Regular team socials.  
• We’re in our early stages and are working to build out further team benefits and would like you to contribute to this.
• Have the chance to shape the direction of the business as we grow.