Wolt is a Helsinki-based technology company that provides an online platform for consumers, merchants and couriers. It connects people looking to order food and other goods with people interested in selling and delivering them. To enable this, Wolt develops a wide range of technologies from local logistics to retail software and financial solutions – as well as operating its own grocery stores under the Wolt Market brand. Wolt’s products include Wolt+ (subscription service for customers), Wolt for Work (meal benefits and office deliveries for companies), Wolt Drive (fast last-mile deliveries for merchants) and Wolt Self-Delivery (service for merchant partners with their own delivery staff). Wolt’s mission is to make cities better by empowering and growing local communities. Wolt was founded in 2014 and joined forces with DoorDash in 2022. DoorDash operates in 29 countries today, 25 of which are with the Wolt product and brand.

Working in Product Development at Wolt

At Wolt, we’re about getting things done. You’ll probably enjoy it here if you like taking ownership, developing yourself and being around friendly, humble and ambitious people. 

The behind the scenes of Wolt is run by an awesome bunch of over 700+ planners, builders, designers and data crunchers. We call ourselves Product+, as we’re the very core of Wolt’s products, tools and platforms. To build our products, we work in over 60  cross-functional, independent and autonomous teams. Teams are made up of a mix of talented individuals: engineers, designers, data scientists, analysts, and product leads. Each team takes ownership for solving customer problems in the best possible way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We want to have all sorts of people in our team – people like you and me, and people different from you and me. To be able to work with diverse teammates – when it comes to gender, age, ethnicity, life background, sexual orientation, political views, religion, or any other personal trait – we consciously aim to offer equal opportunity for everyone to work with us. This is because we believe diverse teams make the most thought-through decisions and build things in the most inclusive way.

Join us today to build Wolt together.

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Wolt is looking for an Internal Events & Community Manager to join our Product+ organization. In this role you will be focused in ideating and executing internal events and community building activities for our Product+ people; this means engineers, product managers, designers, analysts and other product development professionals. You’ll be the heart and soul of our internal events, where we come together to learn, teach, network and be merry! The role requires good understanding of what people want and need in order to feel connected; the ability to invent as well as exquisite organizational skills. 

We already run a series of exciting events for our tech folks, such as Wolt Hackathons, monthly Product Hour internal learning sessions and an annual Product Week event that gathers all our global tech folks in one place to get to know each other and learn about key topics in our product development space. In this role, you'll get to own these and ideate more events, enabling our teams to connect with and learn from one another. If you’re curious, you can get to know some of our event formats through our blog, for example what happens at the Wolt hackathon. 

Your duties will include among others:

• Build an events strategy - strategically look at our internal tech events, build a calendar for how we should manage those and how we can make the most of every opportunity, taking into account our international business and distributed teams
• Hands-on event execution - bringing to life the events from concept to execution - e.g. building the project teams, identifying content opportunities, speaker prep, measuring success of events, dealing with logistics and arrangements
• Internal community building - ideate  how we can make the most of every event and build our internal tech community at Wolt
• Driving engagement - involving the right teams and stakeholders as needed, ideating with tech teams, making sure our people are dedicated, engaged and involved in the events
• Managing budgets, measuring success of the events
• Owning annual event calendar, such as monthly rolling internal tech events, but also larger scale productions such as hackathons and offsites for the tech audience. 
• Work closely together with partner teams, such as communications, office mgmt, employer branding. 

📍This role is based from our headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. You can choose to work part of the time from home if desired.

This role might be perfect for you if you have:

• been responsible for large scale event organizing
• dealt with event budgets and measuring ROI on events
• the desire to work with end-to-end event execution 
• hands-on experience in dealing with budgets, logistics, vendors, collaborating with branding/marketing, concepting events, speaker prep etc. relating to event organization.
• great communication skills - both in written and spoken in English
• no issue juggling overlapping tasks, while paying attention to detail and quality
• like a creative challenge; we need someone who can innovate how we can build engaging event and employee engagement opportunities
• some exposure or experience in the tech industr

The application period will be open until November 5th. After this we will start the interviewing process, which will include 3-4 interview stages and a practical home assignment to show your skills relevant for the role. 

The compensation will be a negotiable combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well, as you’ll own a piece of the pie. 

If you have any questions regarding this role, you can reach out to Head of Talent Acquisition, Product+: Laura Teerisuo ([email protected]).