Israel Defense TechFounders Club

Join the team

Three people to build the organisation.

The club exists. Two verified circles, a launch evening on 3 September, and partners who want in. What it does not have yet is a team - today it is run by one founder, at night, and that ceiling is already visible.

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What you would be joining

A community with a national purpose, not a networking brand.

The vision

Strengthen the founder community, and it builds stronger companies. Stronger companies mean a stronger economy, a stronger technology sector, and stronger national security.

Everything follows from that chain. The club is free to its members and paid for by partners, membership is verified rather than large, and nothing said inside the room leaves it.

Where we honestly are

We are raising the first year of funding now, from industry partners, funds and cloud providers. These roles are being scoped and interviewed for in parallel, and each one starts as its funding closes. We would rather tell you that up front than discover it together in week three.

If you need a signed contract before you will talk, this is too early for you and that is a completely reasonable position. If you want to shape the thing while it is still being shaped, keep reading.

Open roles

Three roles.

Israel based. Each can start part time and grow into full time as the organisation does.

Role 01

Chief Executive

Full time as funding allows · Israel · Reports to the board

You would run the organisation so the founder can stop running it. That means the unglamorous half of a non-profit: registering and governing it properly, holding the budget, closing the funding, hiring the two roles below, and standing in front of partners as the person accountable for delivery. The community strategy is set and the machinery is built. What is missing is an operator who can turn it into an institution.

What you would own

  • Standing up the עמותה properly: registration, governance, board, reporting, audit
  • The first-year budget, and closing the funding that pays for it
  • Partner relationships at the level where money is agreed, not admired
  • Hiring and managing the Community and Partnerships Leads
  • Being the accountable face of the organisation to members, partners and the state

What we are looking for

  • Real operational leadership - you have carried a budget, a team and a deadline that mattered
  • Comfort with the legal and regulatory side: non-profit governance, contracts, compliance
  • Experience running an עמותה, a foundation, or a comparably serious operation
  • A genuine relationship with Israel's defense industry - you know how the primes, the units and the ministry actually work, and people there take your call
  • The judgement to be trusted with a room where discretion is the product

Not a fit if you are looking for a title on a small thing, or if your instinct with a founder community is to monetise the members. The members are never the product.

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Role 02

Community Lead

Part time to full time · Israel

The difference between two silent WhatsApp groups and a community people check daily is one person doing deliberate work every day. That is this job. You would own whether the rooms are alive.

What you would own

  • Vetting applications and running the approval queue
  • Making introductions between members, on purpose rather than on request
  • Keeping both circles active: prompts, threads, follow-ups, the quiet nudges
  • Running events end to end, from guest list to the security desk
  • Knowing every member well enough to say who they should meet

What we are looking for

  • You have built or run a real community, not just moderated one
  • Excellent Hebrew and English, in writing, with judgement about tone
  • Enough fluency in tech and defense to follow the conversation and spot who matters
  • Organised to the point of being slightly annoying about it
  • Discreet by instinct

Not a fit if you think community management is posting content. Almost none of this job is public.

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Role 03

Partnerships Lead

Part time to full time · Israel · Commission on closed partnerships

The club is free to members because partners pay for it. You would be the reason that sentence stays true - building the partner side into something predictable rather than a scramble before each event.

What you would own

  • The partner pipeline: primes, funds, cloud providers, professional services
  • Closing event sponsorship and turning one-off deals into annual partnerships
  • Delivering what was sold, so partners renew without being chased
  • Pricing and packaging as the community grows
  • Protecting the members from the commercial side - the line is yours to hold

What we are looking for

  • You have closed five and six figure B2B deals and can show it
  • You already know people at the primes, the funds, or the cloud providers
  • Comfortable selling something whose value is access and trust, not impressions
  • Hebrew and English, and credibility in a room of senior people

Not a fit if you would sell a partner something that costs the members their privacy. That deal is not available at any price.

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How to apply

Email, not a form.

Write to club@isr-defense.tech with the role in the subject line. Send whatever represents you best - a CV, a LinkedIn profile, or three paragraphs about something you built.

01

Tell us what you have run

Scope, budget, team, outcome. Specific beats impressive.

02

Tell us your connection to this world

Defense, service, the ecosystem. Say plainly what you can and cannot discuss.

03

Tell us what you would change

Read the rest of this site first. Disagreement is welcome and noted.

Every application is read by a person. If a role is not right for you but someone in your network is, an introduction is genuinely valuable to us and we will say so.