Partner 22, New York Events Space Lead

As the New York Events Space Lead at a16z, you own the event spaces in our SoHo office end to end and run them like a high-end hospitality business inside a venture firm. You are the front door for every event in the building, deciding what gets booked and when, and ensuring every guest-whether a CEO, founder, investor or public leader-gets a first-class experience. You work in partnership with our Events team on strategy and programming while you own the operational execution of the spaces, and you run some events end to end, especially private dining room dinners.

What you'll do

• Own booking and prioritization for every NYC event space: review requests, approve or decline, and decide who gets which space when, making fair, clear calls on competing priorities with GPs and senior stakeholders
• Partner with the Events team on every event they run in the spaces, coordinating space, AV and IT, security, and food and beverage, and running the day of, while Events owns the strategy and programming
• Work directly with GPs and their teams to run events end to end when hosted in the spaces without an Events producer, especially private dining room dinners
• Deliver high-touch guest experiences for the CEOs, founders, investors and public leaders we host, and be onsite at most events, often several in one night
• Own the P&L for the spaces: the operating budget, per-event costs charged back to hosting teams, and vendor pricing
• Select and manage our hospitality partners and event vendors, including contracts and compliance
• Serve as the main liaison with Workplace on space readiness and facilities, with Security on guest access and guest list screening, and with IT and outside AV vendors on technical needs
• Own the event intake forms and workflow, the shared calendar and pre-event deadlines, and write the playbooks and service standards that keep every event consistent
• Build and manage a bench of trusted contract staff for overlapping events, and report on usage, cost and guest feedback to keep improving how the spaces run
• Maintain a strong partnership with the Workplace Experience team to ensure cross-functional collaboration

What you bring

• 8+ years in hospitality, food and beverage, hotels or restaurant groups, with at least 3 running a venue, private dining program or events operation
• A track record of high-touch service for VIP guests, and the discretion to handle sensitive guests and situations with care
• P&L ownership, including budgets, vendor contracts, pricing and cost control
• Exceptional stakeholder management: the ability to say no to a senior person, explain why, and keep the relationship
• Experience running several events at once, in one night and across a week, without losing the details
• Comfort working with security protocols, guest lists and access control, and closely with facilities, IT and AV teams
• A systems builder who creates processes and tools others can follow, and comfort with workflow tools like ClickUp
• Calm, warm and decisive on the floor with high standards on how to execute events and spaces
• Low ego, high empathy, and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams
• Availability for regular evening events in New York

Nice to have

• Experience at a members' club, luxury hotel, a restaurant group's private events team, or in-house corporate hospitality

What we offer

• Salary range of $221,000 to $258,000, with actual starting pay varying based on experience, skills, and scope
• Participation in the a16z carry program and various discretionary bonus programs
• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• 401K plan
• Vacation and sick leave

About a16z

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. With $100B+ under management, a16z invests across seed to growth-stage companies in AI, bio and healthcare, consumer, enterprise, fintech, frontier, games, and American dynamism. The firm has invested in companies including Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe.