Hiring: Community Manager
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Data Community Fund (DCF) is hiring a Community Manager to assist with network & community building across our fast-growing platform. You might be more familiar with us as the team behind Data Council — and DCF is our geeky new venture firm backed by top funds such as Sequoia, Foundation Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, AngelList alongside top founders of B2B data companies. We’re completely rethinking venture from the “outside in” starting with a strong community of technical professionals, mentors, founders and go-to-market experts as our core differentiator.
Why Building the Data Community Matters
Data technologies are rapidly changing the world, and since 2013 Data Council has been building the premier technical community at the epicenter of the hottest technical advancements and research in machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, neural networks and deep learning. These technologies are literally transforming industries while simultaneously creating new opportunities and defining our future.
Money is cheap, experience isn’t. This is why we built our community first — to give technical founders launching B2B data-oriented startups an unfair advantage to succeed. Based on our immensely popular conference series, we provide the natural platform for technical founders to find early design partners & customers, hire technical talent, and network with other founders who have been through similar early stage challenges.
This network is our not-so-secret weapon — so far we’ve quietly backed more than 40 top B2B data & infrastructure startups such as Superconductive (Great Expectations), Era Software, Hex, Hightouch, Acryl Data (Datahub), Elemental, Truera, Orchest, Voltron Data, StarTree, Rasgo, Decodable, Watchful and many others.
We’re on a mission to build a breakout venture firm specifically designed for engineer-founders, and are looking for a data community wrangler to help us achieve the next step of our vision.
What We’re Looking For
The Community Manager is responsible to scale and execute our platform strategy amongst the data community. They are our ambassador to the broader data community and will focus on raising brand awareness for Data Council and DCF and growing our audience of data-oriented founders and technical professionals. This includes running & managing events, content creation, assisting with portfolio support functions and generally being the center of all our community relationships & programs.
There is a considerable amount of growth available in this role, and the ideal profile combination we’re looking for is part developer evangelist, part community wrangler and part data geek all rolled into one.
We believe that our core differentiation lies in how we build our platform and the community around it. Where some VCs start with a fund and try to “bolt on” a community, we started with community first (no, really!) and are building out our fund from there. This gives us a distinctly first-principles approach to building a new kind of venture fund, and you’ll experience it directly when designing and building the platform & community features that are direct manifestations of our core values.
About You
- Have 5+ years experience in a related role for a data or devtools company (community, devrel, marketing, founder, etc.)
- Passionate about data technologies, machine learning, AI and the positive impact it can have on our world — you’re a “data geek” in the truest sense of the phrase
- Love to connect people, aren’t afraid of software engineers, dare to build a system to scale it better
- Possess experience with high-quality content creation (newsletters, podcasts, talks, online events, etc.)
- Monitor and execute social media & email campaigns while ensuring accurate brand representation
- Have previous experience coordinating events or conferences, or have stories of similarly rigorous execution performance
- Understand how challenging startups can be — your personal experience of the pain gives you empathy and drives you to build network-based solutions to help other founders
Our Team & Approach
Our team is fully distributed and embraces the remote work lifestyle. You’ll have the freedom to work from your desired location while staying connected with the team and portfolio companies via Data Council, our portfolio events series, and by building out our community in the U.S. and Europe.
This is a unique opportunity to join an inspired team that’s rethinking the venture firm of the future with data as our initial focus.
