# Operations Manager, Community

**Company:** [Taste Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/taste-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Community
**Skills:** Airtable, Notion, Email Marketing, funnel metrics, data management, onboarding operations, reactivation campaigns, scheduling, expert networks, community operations
**Posted:** 2026-04-24

> Runs the operating system for a curated expert network, maintaining supply data, onboarding workflows, funnel reporting, reactivation campaigns, and engagement touchpoints. The role suits an independent operator comfortable building systems amid ambiguity and prioritizing quality over volume.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Operate the curated expert network as an end-to-end community operations system.
- Maintain accurate supply data, including expert capabilities, tiers, availability, and locations.
- Publish weekly funnel metrics: applications → portfolio approval → testing → passing → contracting → staffing.
- Run onboarding mechanics by scheduling sessions, following up on stalled steps, moving experts through the process, and flagging bottlenecks.
- Run reactivation campaigns, including sequences, reply tracking, booking coordination, routing, and conversion reporting.
- Manage between-project touchpoints that keep experts engaged and available for new work.
- Build operational structure while executing existing community operations work.
- Design systems, documented handoffs, and trustworthy data that other people can use.

## Requirements
- Experience owning operational systems end to end and making decisions independently.
- Ability to align stakeholders without direct authority.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity while workflows and playbooks are still being developed.
- Strong execution pace, organization, follow-through, and attention to data quality.
- Ability to distinguish curated, quality-focused network operations from volume recruiting or content-focused community management.
- Demonstrated taste or discernment in a creative or professional domain.

## Relevant Backgrounds
- Operations or production coordination at design-first agencies, studios, or production companies.
- Talent coordination at agencies, casting operations, fellowship programs, or residency programs.
- Marketplace or community operations where supply quality was more important than volume.
- End-to-end cohort, bootcamp, or apprenticeship program coordination.
- Operations generalist or executive assistant work involving operational trackers and systems.
- Freelance production work coordinating complex projects without formal authority.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Scoped, steady contract work with a clear owner and performance standard.
- Airtable, Notion, and email tools, with budget for operational tooling.
- Opportunity to work with a network of more than 1,000 designers.
- Potential for the role to grow over time.

## Hiring Process
- Initial screen.
- Founding team member interview focused on operating tempo and systems thinking.
- Culture and commitment conversation.
- References.

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