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# Global Head of Membership at Newlab Careers

- **Company:** Newlab Careers
- **Location:** Brooklyn, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newlabcareers/jobs/4748855005

## Job description

Newlab is seeking a Global Head of Membership to lead the delivery, operations, and financial performance of our Membership organization across all Newlab locations and directly for the Newlab Brooklyn ecosystem. This leader will serve as executor of our global membership platform in order to ensure that startups in our ecosystem move faster by virtue of being a part of Newlab. They will ensure that the Newlab experience is consistent and seamless across Newlab locations and digitally. This role is perfect for a seasoned operator with P&L ownership, management experience, an operator mindset, and a technical engineering foundation.

This is an in-person role 5 days a week in our Brooklyn office, with semi-frequent travel to Detroit, New Orleans, and future Newlab locations.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

Operational Leadership

- Help execute the roadmap for Newlab’s Membership product across locations aligned with company goals.
- Lead the implementation of new services, benefits, and partnerships both locally and globally.
- Align both physical and digital products across locations into a cohesive business unit.

Business Management

- Business accountability for the Membership business (community, labs/product realization, facilities), including budgeting, forecasting, and growth across locations.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to develop standardized components (e.g. the onboarding process) of the membership offering and work with local membership teams to ensure consistent local delivery.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to develop pricing models, monetization, and sustainable financial models to scale the business unit.
- Collaboration with global pipeline and localization teams to maximize the utility of Newlab assets, infrastructure, and capabilities to optimize precision attraction potential of new member companies.

Membership Experience

- Work with the Head of Membership Experience to foster a vibrant, interdisciplinary ecosystem of startups, researchers, investors, and partners.
- Leverage data to continually refine how value is created and delivered to the member base and to report on what value is created.
- Oversee Newlab’s digital platforms including the community slack and Newlab OS.
- Collaboration with facilities teams to ensure safe, consistent and responsive experience to startups with urgent, technical and nuanced requirements

Stakeholder & Team Leadership

- Manage a high-performing team of Membership leaders in each Newlab location.
- Act as the internal voice of members needs and platform requirements
- Collaborate cross-functionally with the organization to maximize startup exposure to the rest of the Newlab platform.

System Development and Deployment

- Work with the business operations team to integrate systems and infrastructure that enable membership scale and personalized experience delivery.
- Establish systems and processes for day to day operations including mail delivery and distribution.
- Work with the Director of Facilities to ensure global safety and facilities best practices.
- Highlight and support opportunities to improve data and contract management processes.

## EXPERIENCE

## Requirements

- 5+ years of relevant experience, including:
- Senior operational roles (Head of Operations, Chief of Staff), preferably in a high-growth, venture-backed environment.
- Direct P&L ownership
- Operational team management
- Proven track record in operations, ecosystem building, or innovation program design.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with strong execution, communication, and analytical skills.
- Experience managing complex stakeholder networks including investors, corporates, and startups.
- Deep curiosity about emerging technologies and frontier sectors (AI, robotics, energy, climate, mobility, materials, etc.).

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience scaling a membership, accelerator, or community platform.
- Familiarity with NYC’s innovation ecosystem or public-private tech initiatives.
- Experience as an early stage founder or founding employee
- MBA or equivalent leadership experience
- Technical experience in a lab/innovation/manufacturing environment.

## Compensation & benefits

- $180,000- $215,000 USD base salary
- Performance bonus eligibility
- Comprehensive benefits package with no waiting period

## About Newlab Careers

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Newlab is a venture platform that helps critical technology startups commercialize faster by providing infrastructure, commercialization projects, and capital across a global network of innovation hubs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture platform; not publicly traded)
- **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: David Belt (co‑founder and chairman); other co‑founders not publicly named

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Venture platform / Innovation infrastructure / Critical technology (deep tech, hard tech including energy, mobility, mining, logistics, manufacturing)
- **Target customers**: B2B – venture‑scalable startups in critical technology sectors; also industry and government partners seeking to pilot and adopt new technologies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Unblock commercialization for critical technology startups through infrastructure, projects, and capital in the geographies focused on rapid industrialization; so the right ideas don’t just survive, they scale.” [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Infrastructure**: Purpose‑built technical labs, prototyping shops, pilot sites, and workspaces in five global hubs (Brooklyn, Detroit, New Orleans, Riyadh, Montevideo). [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)
- **Projects**: Commercialization programs and real‑world pilots in partnership with 60+ industry and government leaders to validate commercial pathways and de‑risk adoption. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)
- **Capital**: Grants, direct investment, and access to a syndicate of venture and non‑dilutive capital to accelerate company growth across key stages. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Newlab is a private platform; its member ecosystem has a collective valuation of over $20B)
- **Key Metric**: Member startups have raised over $5.8B in venture capital; the ecosystem has seen $14.5B+ in valuation growth since 2017. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 60+ industry and government partners (e.g., Ford/Michigan Central in Detroit, Ministry of Energy in Saudi Arabia); syndicate of venture investors. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded from one Brooklyn hub (2016) to five global hubs (2023–2025); 400+ member companies; 264 days faster to raising a Series A for members; $4B raised in venture capital by members; $3B in exits since 2017. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physical infrastructure for hard tech**: Unlike software‑only accelerators, Newlab provides labs, prototyping equipment, and real‑world testbeds essential for critical technology startups.
- **Deep industry & government partnerships**: Facilitates commercial pilots that de‑risk adoption and open market access.
- **Global footprint in reindustrializing regions**: Hubs in Brooklyn, Detroit, New Orleans, Riyadh, and Montevideo – locations actively prioritizing industrial transformation.
- **Proven acceleration metrics**: Member companies reach Series A 264 days faster on average than the industry norm. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Continue building hubs in geographies that prioritize reindustrialization and critical technology (e.g., Riyadh for mining/logistics/energy, Montevideo for Latin American market entry).
- **Sector depth**: Deepen focus on energy, mobility, manufacturing, mining, and logistics.
- **Capital alignment**: Grow the syndicate of venture and non‑dilutive capital to bridge the gap between R&D and commercial scale. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven environment**: Employees work alongside “incredible founders, industry and government leaders, experts, and investors” to solve pressing global challenges. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/about)
- **In‑office culture**: Newlab operates physical hubs; roles are primarily on‑site at locations such as Brooklyn Navy Yard, Detroit, New Orleans, or Riyadh. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/newlab)
- **Team composition**: “Founders, scientists, engineers, investors, and operators” who now help other founders scale. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/team)
- **Growth opportunities**: Roles span strategy, startup deployment, investment, operations, and technical program management – with a chance to shape the next industrial revolution. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newlabcareers)

## Sources
1. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newlabcareers)
2. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/)
3. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/about)
4. [newlab.com](https://www.newlab.com/team)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/newlab)

## Other roles at Newlab Careers

- [Chief of Staff, Commercialization Team](https://feeny.ai/job/chief-of-staff-commercialization-team-newlab-careers-brooklyn-0q24qb6wc3c2) — Brooklyn, NY
- [Global Director of Facilities](https://feeny.ai/job/global-director-of-facilities-newlab-careers-brooklyn-eahjhynev75w) — Brooklyn, NY
- [Sr. Manager, Membership Operations](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-manager-membership-operations-newlab-careers-louisiana-g61xfa8qqj6q) — Louisiana
- [Sr. Director, Commercialization](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-director-commercialization-newlab-careers-detroit-dx2w22w22d6m) — Detroit, MI