Regional Growth Lead - Asia

Regional Growth Lead, Asia

Location: Manila, Philippines. 100% remote.

Engagement: Full-time contractor

The short version

Thursday runs in-person singles events in over 130 cities. We are now building Asia, and we want one person to own it.

You will run our events in Manila and the surrounding area, then repeat what works city by city across the region: finding the venue, negotiating the deal, listing the event, and recruiting the local host who takes it forward.

This is a build role, not a maintenance one. Most of your week will be spent contacting bar and venue managers who have never heard of us and getting them to give us a Thursday night.

What you will actually do

Find and sign venues. Build a target list of bars in a city, work out who the decision-maker is, then email, call and get on a video call with them. You will walk them through what a Thursday takeover looks like and what they get out of it: a full bar on a quiet night, at no cost to them. Expect to contact a lot of venues to sign one good one.

Set venues and events up on thursday.com. Once the deal is agreed you list the venue, build the event, set pricing and get it live. Accuracy matters. A wrong address, date or capacity costs us ticket sales and credibility with the venue.

Own Manila. Manila is your home market and your proof point. You hold the calendar, the venue mix and the event outcomes until the city is big enough to hand to a dedicated host.

Open new cities across Asia. Research the market, source venues, launch the first 2 events and source a local host to run ongoing events.

Recruit and screen hosts. Every city you open needs a local host. You will work with our Global Recruitment Consultant to review applications, interview candidates on video and make the call on who represents Thursday in that market. A weak host costs us a city, so this is not a rubber stamp.

What we need from you

• Fluent English, spoken and written. You will be on video calls with venue managers, writing to them daily, and interviewing host candidates. This one is not flexible.
• Outbound sales or business development experience. You are comfortable contacting people who did not ask to hear from you, and comfortable being told no.
• Based in Manila or the surrounding area, and able to get to a venue in person when it matters.
• Organised enough to run several cities at once without losing track of who you are waiting on.
• Able to work across timezones. Our team sits in the UK, USA and Australia.
• Reliable internet, a laptop and a quiet space for video calls.

Useful but not essential: nightlife, hospitality, events or venue experience. Understanding how a bar actually makes money is a real advantage in these conversations.

The practical bits

• Full-time contractor engagement. You invoice us monthly and you are responsible for your own tax and any local registration.
• 100% remote, though the role involves being in venues in person around Manila.
• You set your own hours within reason, but you need to be available during venue trading hours locally and to overlap with the UK and Australian teams.