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Gym Class · 4 months ago

Community Manager / Lead

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$85K/yr - $145K/yr
date3+ years exp

Gym Class is a top-rated social VR game on Meta Quest, and they are seeking a founding Community Manager to design, test, and scale programs that grow and engage their player base. The role involves driving community-driven growth through various initiatives, managing Discord and Creator Programs, and empowering content creators while treating community engagement as a product.

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Responsibilities

Grow the community: Drive growth and retention through our Creator Program, Discord, and grassroots experiments
Prototype → Scale: Launch scrappy experiments (e.g. ranked tournaments, live events, Discord activations), 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
Act 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

Qualification

Community buildingDiscord engagementGrowth designAI tools automationEvent managementEntrepreneurial mindsetScrappy problem-solvingCreator collaborationData analysis

Required

3–6+ years building and scaling engaged online communities (gaming, Discord, creators, or similar)
Designed and run programs that started small but grew into scalable systems
Hypothesis-driven; you run experiments, analyze results, and refine quickly
Deep knowledge of Discord culture, bots, and best practices for engagement at scale
Comfortable working with streamers, hosting events, and even being a community-facing presence yourself
Skilled with AI tools to prototype and automate systems, Google Sheets, Zapier, and even bots
Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and ready to run with problems without waiting for permission

Benefits

Equity
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401k retirement plan with matching

Company

Gym Class

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Gym Class is a virtual reality basketball app on meta quest app lab.
dateFounded in 2021
location
Los Angeles, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://gymclassvr.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$8M
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2022-08-02Seed· $8M

Leadership Team

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Justin Hubert
Co-founder
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