Manager, Community Team
United StatesCommunityRemote8+ YOE
Summary
Manages and scales a global remote community team, overseeing engagement strategy, KPIs, moderation, and customer advocacy across major platforms while partnering with product and marketing teams.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Direct, mentor, and scale a global, remote team of Community Specialists ensuring 24/7/365 coverage, high engagement, and consistent brand alignment.
- Define, track, and optimize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the community team, including response times, engagement rates, and community sentiment scores.
- Oversee and execute the multi-channel engagement strategy across major platforms, including Facebook Group (125k+ members), Reddit, LinkedIn, X, and native HighLevel Communities.
- Establish, document, and enforce community guidelines and moderation frameworks to maintain a helpful, objective, and solution-oriented environment.
- Partner with Product Managers and Product Marketing to gather and relay community feedback, highlight pain points, and explain releases to customers.
- Act as the chief incident coordinator within the community during service outages, disruptions, or PR events, publishing clear, transparent, and authoritative updates.
- Develop and manage customer advocacy initiatives, top-contributor programs, and gamification strategies to reward active agency owners and power users.
- Collect and report weekly and monthly qualitative and quantitative community health metrics to Leadership.
Requirements
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and direct people-management skills, with a track record of scaling remote teams.
- Exceptional conflict-resolution, de-escalation, and crisis communication skills.
- Proactive go-getter, not afraid to ask hard questions, take accountability, and make decisive calls under high-visibility pressure.
- Deep technical aptitude and comfort with SaaS ecosystems, workflow automations, and modern marketing technologies.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple high-stakes priorities simultaneously in a 24/7 digital environment.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently while collaborating seamlessly across product, support, and marketing teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to distill complex engineering updates into simple, clear, and reassuring community updates.
- 8 years of overall relevant experience with people management experience.
- Minimum 1 year experience working in HighLevel.
- 5+ years of Customer Relations or Customer Service experience.
Nice-to-Haves
- Applicable degree (not required).
Skills
Community ManagementTeam LeadershipPeople ManagementKPI TrackingConflict ResolutionCrisis CommunicationSaaSCustomer AdvocacyModeration FrameworksCross-functional Collaboration