VP, Membership & Community

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Lead strategic member relationships and drive growth, facilitating high-impact experiences for leaders in social impact and philanthropy.

Our Vision: 

NationSwell is a one-of-a-kind executive membership community and advisory firm for mission-driven leaders and their organizations. Our Institutional Membership (IM) is an invitation-only program for leading companies, philanthropies, and investment firms. It is designed to help leaders advance their work in social impact, sustainability, philanthropy, and purpose-driven culture. The NationSwell Studio works with leaders in the impact space to create transformative social impact strategies, provide in-depth research and insights, engage key audiences, and more.

The Opportunity:

A senior, enterprise-grade servicing and growth leader responsible for stewarding and expanding NationSwell’s most strategic member relationships. This role blends strategic vision with hands-on leadership, serving as the Executive Sponsor for a portfolio of senior leaders and working alongside a Member Success lead to jointly manage the full post-sale lifecycle for a named portfolio, spanning executive relationship management, renewal and net revenue retention, and organic growth through cross-sell, upsell, and expanded engagement.

Serving as the Executive liaison to senior corporate and philanthropic leaders, the VP partners with members as a trusted advisor. They bring discernment, commercial rigor, and creativity to shape high-impact experiences aligned to each member’s strategic priorities. This role blends strategic judgment with hands-on execution and is ideal for a leader who thrives at the intersection of relationship depth, business outcomes, and mission-driven work.

With strong executive presence, a refined servicing philosophy, and a proven track record owning and/or contributing towards renewals and expansion, this leader helps elevate both the member experience and NationSwell’s long-term revenue durability.

Compensation: The base salary range for this position is $150K-$160K plus commission.

Location: Remote (must be based in the United States).

Key Responsibilities

Membership Growth, Retention, and Servicing

  • Own UR, NRR and Growth Goals  – Hold ultimate accountability for Unit Renewal and Net Revenue Retention across a portfolio of high-value members. Drive organic growth through expanded engagement, cross-sell and upsell opportunities, and executive referrals, with a clear point of view on commercial prioritization and account potential.
  • Oversee Strategic Account Servicing - Serve as the primary strategic owner for each account, developing tailored servicing strategies that align NationSwell’s offerings to members’ evolving business, impact, and leadership priorities. Bring structured thinking and sound judgment to identify opportunities, anticipate risks, and guide members toward high-value engagement across membership, Studio, and programming offerings.
  • Coach and Mentor Member Success partners - Coach and mentor Member Success partners, modeling best-in-class enterprise servicing behaviors, executive presence, and commercial discipline. Establish high standards for account planning, renewal strategy, documentation, and member communication.

Drive Best-in-Class Member Experience

  • Shape Responsive Programming - Partner closely with the Executive Team and cross-functional leaders to inform and refine programming, ensuring experiences are relevant, rigorous, and responsive to member priorities. Translate member insight into actionable input for product, programming, and Studio work.
  • Facilitate Member Events – Confidently facilitate in-person and virtual convenings with senior leaders. Bring presence, warmth, and discernment to create trusted spaces for dialogue, insight-sharing, and peer connection.
  • Build Community – Actively foster peer-to-peer connection and collaboration across the NationSwell community, helping members build meaningful relationships that extend beyond individual events or programs.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in enterprise account management, customer success, strategic partnerships, or consulting roles, with direct ownership of renewals and ownership or generation of expansion for a portfolio of complex accounts.
  • Proven ability to operate as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior executives, bringing sound judgment, discretion, and strategic insight.
  • Highly developed executive presence. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing without authority, and engaging senior leaders with confidence and credibility.
  • Strong facilitation and convening skills, with the ability to read dynamics, elevate dialogue, and create inclusive, high-quality experiences.
  • Experience building, refining, and/or executing servicing motions, tools, or playbooks. Brings a point of view on what best-in-class servicing looks like.
  • Confident and proven people management skills, ideally within account servicing teams.
  • Commercially minded and metrics-driven, with comfort operating against revenue goals and using data to inform decisions.
  • Collaborative leadership style: works seamlessly with cross-functional partners (Member Success, Studio, Growth) to deliver one unified experience.
  • High-motor, entrepreneurial orientation, and comfort operating with cross-functional partners (Member Success, Studio, Business Development) in a fast-growing, evolving organization.
  • Facility with Salesforce or other CRM, preferred; must be skilled at learning new systems and maintaining tight documentation.
  • Experience working with corporate social impact/CSR, philanthropic, or mission-driven organizations strongly preferred.

How to Apply:

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your resume and a cover letter clearly articulating your relevant experience and interest in the role. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Candidates can be based anywhere in the United States. There is an expectation that this person will travel 1-3x per quarter.

Benefits

We know that having a positive team culture is essential to achieving our goals, so we put time and effort into making NationSwell an encouraging, energizing, and exciting place to work. We are proud to be a certified B Corp. Here are just a few of the ways we celebrate our staff and culture at NationSwell.

  • Health and Wellness: Health, dental, and vision insurance,  HSA, FSA, and free memberships to OneMedical, Peloton App One, and Talkspace 
  • Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off and adaptable schedules to encourage your work-life balance
  • Giving Back: Paid time off for employees to volunteer for causes that matter to them and internal moments to celebrate it
  • Support for Caregivers: Dependent Care FSAs and 16 weeks paid parental leave to support caregivers in the workplace
  • Your Savings: Employees are offered a 401k account, and we match a portion of each contribution

NationSwell is committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to building a workforce that celebrates diversity and equity and believe that inclusivity plays an important role in our decision-making process, both in staffing and in work product.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health, dental, and vision insurance, HSA, FSA, and free memberships to OneMedical, Peloton App One, and Talkspace
  • 401k plan with matching contributions: Employees are offered a 401k account, and we match a portion of each contribution
  • Paid Parental Leave: 16 weeks paid parental leave to support caregivers in the workplace
  • Paid Time Off: Flexible paid time off and adaptable schedules to encourage your work-life balance

NationSwell is a leading social impact media company dedicated to powering the solutions and innovations that will move our country forward. NationSwell advances that mission through a digital media platform that tells powerful, authentic human stories of problem solvers, through the NationSwell Council — a special membership community of nearly 800 service-minded leaders who share a passion for service, for taking action around solutions and for collaborating and supporting each other — and through its Studio where it works with mission-aligned companies to support and amplify their social impact efforts through storytelling, digital distribution and creative impact campaigns. Last year, NationSwell reached more than 275 million people with its content.We love our staff—and to show our deep appreciation, we offer competitive salaries, a flexible and remote work environment, amazing benefits and more. We know that having a positive team culture is essential to achieving our goals, so we put time and effort into making NationSwell an encouraging, energizing, and exciting place to work.Our culture is built on NationSwell’s five core values: inspiration, innovation, excellence, integrity, and teamwork. We find inspiration in our teammates, in our story subjects, and in the potential for the future. We encourage innovation by nurturing creativity and bolstering the entrepreneurial spirit. We pursue excellence with dedication and confidence: dedication to continually improve and confidence in our capacity to do so. We view integrity as vital to our execution of NationSwell’s mission. We strengthen teamwork by trusting our teammates and embracing new ideas. We’re a growing team and looking for talented, purpose-driven individuals to join us.

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