Now Hiring: Head of Community!
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3 min readMay 7, 2021
Are you Unshackled’s rockstar community lead? Apply today!
What you will do
Community & event management
- Plan and produce Unshackled Ventures online and offline community engagements with portfolio companies, immigrant operators, key stakeholders, and partners.
This will include:
- Management of our online community platforms, including Slack and Twitter.
- Collaboration with the investment team to lead our University Fellows and Roundtable Program.
- Organizing and designing in-person events, virtual events, webinars, and intimate group meet-ups that facilitate connectivity across our founder, venture and LP communities.
- Constantly gathering feedback from the community and creating strategy on those insights.
Portfolio Support
- Identify topics that resonate with the founder community for ongoing touch-points and event based themes and ideas.
- Support the onboarding of Portfolio Companies into our network; leveraging Unshackled founder resources and active approach to supporting our founders.
Non-Core Responsibilities:
Community Operations
- Support, manage, and optimize Unshackled no-code tech stack and day-to-day community operations, including Unshackled’s website.
- Design frameworks to measure and report the ROI/outcomes of community engagements with portfolio companies, key stakeholders, and partners.
Content
- Develop and execute our content strategy.
- Manage social media accounts (Twitter, Substack, Medium, Instagram, LinkedIn).
- Develop and execute a holistic strategy to drive awareness, engagement, and retention across our community of aspiring immigrant entrepreneurs.
Who you are (qualifications)
- At least 2–5 years of work experience in a relationship driven role with community management/building experience, events and content driven work, sales, business operations, customer experience or managing client-focused programs.
- Passionate about being a community and customer advocate. You are deeply empathetic and understand why community voices are so important.
- Excellent relationship-building skills; able to build rapport with a wide variety of personalities; you are a people person who brings a community together; high EQ/Low ego.
- Clear and effective communicator, both oral and written, with the understanding of how to leverage networks; comfortability with public speaking in virtual and in-person formats.
- Ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced environment; Comfortable completing complex tasks and projects with minimal guidance and reacting to situations that require a quick turnaround with appropriate urgency.
- Experience in event planning, familiarity with virtual event production and platform/tools, digital marketing and/or content creation a plus
- You’re able to zoom-in and zoom-out with ease: you aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty, but can easily push the team to think about “big picture” strategy.
- Experienced in launching, leading, and scaling programs in a fast-paced environment.
- You’re hungry to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment, and want to work in a fund where you can really make a difference.
How We Work (our culture)
- Curious — Our team has an experimental mindset, an important principle when building something new.
- Bias towards action — You have that entrepreneurial tenacity with strong execution chops. Each person on the team should feel empowered to take measured risks with strong judgement.
- Empathetic — It is tough being a founder and an immigrant. It’s important each person on the team can empathize with our community.
Location: Remote or San Francisco, CA
Timeline: Start date Q3, 2021.
Deadline: June 15th, 2021 with interviewing occuring on a rolling basis.
How to Apply: We will ask of your resume and 2 writing samples. Apply here.