Community Manager / Lead

- Grow the community: Drive growth and retention through the Creator Program, Discord, and grassroots experiments.- Prototype Scale: Launch scrappy experiments (e.g. ranked tournaments, live events, Discord activations, Creator Program optimizations and incentives), gather learnings, then systematize into repeatable programs.- Make Discord thrive: Increase active communicators, create eventful social moments, and ensure power users feel energized and connected.- Empower creators: Recruit and partner with content creators, run events with them, and design programs that amplify their reach and impact.- Lead contractors & tools: Guide contracted community developers and a tools intern to scale programs, build automations, and run specialized initiatives.- Build community like product: Treat community like a product surface - form hypotheses, test them, track KPIs, and double down on what works.- Be the expert: Advise the whole team on how to build for and with our community, ensuring player needs inform product direction.- Community-first: 3 6+ years building and scaling engaged online communities (gaming, Discord, creators, or similar).- Grassroots builder: Designed and run programs that started small but grew into scalable systems.- Growth-minded: Hypothesis-driven; able to run experiments, analyze results, and refine quickly.- Discord native: Deep knowledge of Discord culture, bots, and best practices for engagement at scale.- Creator-friendly: Comfortable working with streamers, hosting events, and being a community-facing presence.- Automation-savvy: Skilled with AI tools to prototype and automate systems, Google Sheets, Zapier, and bots.- High-agency: Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and ready to run with problems without waiting for permission.