The Ken’s Events Lead must have a sharp editorial perspective on top of operational expertise. This means working with our moderators and panelists is just as important as handling the logistics and planning for each event.
You’ll have a say in who we invite, what the discussions will cover, and how the room is designed to make the conversations memorable.
You will work with a lean, fast-moving team with diverse skills and responsibilities, spanning editorial, design, product, and marketing. We take the design of everything we make seriously. Original ideas are pressure-tested; if they hold up, then they become part of our strategy.
You may be a good fit as The Ken’s Events Lead if you are:
- A journalist or editor who can run engaging interviews, and are ready to translate that into a live conversation on stage for our moderators
- An event producer who excels at building unexpected narrative arcs and conducting deep research
- A community manager who is an expert at creating memorable gatherings and experiences
- Someone who has created conference programmes or curated guests for seminars, and is ready to step up your game
You have strong editorial skills and now want to shape conversations in a fresh way. Or you have experience running live events—not just attending them or supporting them, but owning a meaningful part of them. In all, you have 2–3 years of professional experience.
You must have a high bar for conversation, and know the difference between a panel that sounds good and one that changes how people think.
The role is based in Bengaluru, with possible travel to other major cities in India.
We’ve hosted five panels that cut across careers, wealth, health, building products, and AI agents. Our speakers always encapsulate points of view that have changed the way our attendees think about those topics.
Meanwhile, the attendees who come to our events are often founders, CXOs, business leaders, and investors in India’s promising companies. They spend half a day with us each time, and get to be part of a candid conversation that sparks new questions and brings insights that are hard to come by. The people who have attended our events have told us how these conversations have changed how they make decisions.
The Ken offers competitive salaries and benefits, plus the following:
- An Apple MacBook laptop
- A flat, non-hierarchical, and open culture
- Universal ESOP benefits
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Unique learning opportunities related to journalism and subscription products
Building unique career lattices: How to think about careers in an age of uncertainty
- Harshil Mathur, Co-founder and CEO of Razorpay
- Vasuta Agarwal, Chief Business Officer of InMobi
- Prof. Sourav Mukherji, IIM Bangalore
The next 10 years of investing, wealth, and markets
- Nithin Kamath, Co-founder and CEO of Zerodha
- Deepak Shenoy, Founder and CEO of Capitalmind
- Avinash Luthria, Founder of Fiduciaries
Achieving vitality: New visions for health, fitness, and wellness
- Nisha Millet, Olympic swimmer, Arjuna Awardee, founder and director of the Nisha Millet Swimming Academy
- Viren Shetty, Vice Chairman of Narayana Health
- Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips (The Liver Doc), hepatologist and physician-scientist
How AI is breaking and remaking the way products are built
- Kailash Nadh, CTO of Zerodha
- Sidu Ponnappa, Co-founder and CEO of Realfast
- Soumyadeep Mukherjee, Co-founder and CTO of Dashtoon
- Akash Anand, Co-founder and CEO of Clueso
The great unbundling: Chaos as the ladder for agentic AI in India
- Muralikrishnan B, former President of Xiaomi India
- Amod Malviya, Co-founder of Udaan and former CTO of Flipkart
- Anant Choubey, Co-founder of Capillary
- Thomas Fenn, Co-founder of Mahabelly and joint secretary of the National Restaurant Association of India
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