They should be connected in the local community and experienced in the business areas you want to develop. Filling in for any gaps in staffing needsĬommunity Partnerships Manager/Business Development Manager – This role mostly takes on the partnership-building work from the Director, though with much more focus.Fundraising (investment, sponsorship, etc.).The core responsibilities of this person include: In coworking brands with multiple locations there is often a CEO and/or a COO at the company level with Directors in charge of individual locations. Having more skill or more of an inclination in one of these areas is fine, so long as the other areas don’t suffer from a lack of attention on their respective staff and strategies.
Usually the person in this role is better or more experienced in one of the core areas of a coworking business: operations, marketing, events, or member/community management. Senior LeadershipĬEO/COO/Director – This role is best filled by a generalist with great management and leadership capabilities. The size, goals, and revenue channels of your space will dictate what’s needed and this list should help you decide.
This is merely a list of roles that could be in your coworking space. In another article, I’ll outline a few organizational models that can be used to set up your coworking space staffing structure.īy no means should this list be considered a “complete” or “proper” staff allocation. What follows is a simple breakdown of common coworking roles and my descriptions of what they ought to be responsible for and what ongoing work they should be engaged in. However, people underperform in roles they are not experienced in or in which they aren’t naturally talented. It is important for all team members to remain flexible. Yes, coworking spaces are startups in a sense. Both are terrible mistakes and are a product of the startup mindset that “anybody can and should do anything and everything”.
Recently I’ve been tweeting about how spaces often incorrectly put their bizdev people in operations positions and vice versa. Coworking spaces all over the world have a hard time putting people in the right places.
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