Partner 18, Digital Community Manager
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI, bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $44B in assets under management across multiple funds.
We’ve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. We’ve invested in companies like Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, Devoted Health, Insitro, Figma, GitHub, Instacart, OpenSea, Roblox, Stripe, and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
In this role, you will be at the center of our digital communities who are passionate about building the future of technology: driving engagement and fostering dynamic conversations across various topics. You'll manage daily interactions in multiple active groups, identify and invite new key members, and discover new topics to launch additional communities.
This Community Manager is excited to represent a16z, genuinely curious and driven to learn about emerging technology, and skilled in creating unique and vibrant digital spaces. You will build relationships and foster dynamic conversations to push the future of technology in a positive direction. This role is pivotal in shaping our digital communities, ensuring a positive experience, and aligning community efforts with the firm’s overall goals. Success in this role looks like identifying and bringing in the right people to ensure ongoing engagement and energy in our digital group chats.
You will oversee the daily interactions in both small format digital groups. This includes: starting new and deepening ongoing conversations, asking well-formed questions to a wide variety of audiences, managing thought-provoking debates, creating rituals within individual groups, and so much more.
If you are passionate and skilled in building online communities that create the next generation of technology, this is the role for you.
To join our team, you should be excited to:
- Create the best community practices in the tech ecosystem. Be willing to experiment and develop new ways to drive engagement
- Launch new digital communities at a rapid pace
- Be on the bleeding edge of the future of technology. Constantly seek new ways to identify new topics of interest to the community
- Have a strong voice in the community and be a strong advocate for the community across the firm
- Execute & measure the efficacy of community experiments, such as:
- What type of content engages our community the most?
- Who makes a good group host?
- How do we properly incentivize our hosts?
- Be able to connect & converse with a broad array of personas, including founders, execs, researchers, could-be founders, creators, and operators
- Identify potential great hosts and collaborate with highly passionate community members
Minimum Qualifications
- 4+ years in active community management or a similar lead role in a community
- Digitally native. You naturally build online communities on Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, etc
- Experience with community platforms & tooling
- Experience developing and aligning community metrics to business objectives
- Experience working with entrepreneurs, senior executives, industry leaders, and creators
- Ability to work closely & collaboratively with many teams in a high paced environment
- High EQ; able to build trust with the community
- Experience communicating, both written and verbal, to senior leaders
The anticipated salary range for this role is between $160,000 - $187,000, actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience, skills, and scope.
This role is eligible to participate in the a16z Carry program and various discretionary bonus programs as well as benefit and perquisite plans including health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401K plan, vacation, and sick leave.
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different, we recognize that, and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.
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What We Do
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio+healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $28.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $2.9B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.
