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Hire a Community Manager

Hire a community manager without paying $65K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent community managers starting at $2.5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can keep your Discord and Slack active every day, respond to members within hours, and turn feedback into product insight without living in the mod queue yourself.

Community Manager ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $2.5K/mo
Typical local cost$5Kโ€“$7K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level3โ€“6+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Community Manager

Hiring for this role locally is slow and expensive, and the community does not wait. While you screen resumes for two months, new members join and go silent, support questions sit unanswered, and a founder ends up moderating threads at 11pm because nobody else is watching. Our model closes that gap. We match you with community managers who have built and run member spaces before, ready to take the queue off your hands in weeks.

Every candidate goes through structured skills-based testing, real-world scenario evaluation, such as defusing a heated thread or planning a month of programming, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire a community manager through us, they are embedded in your platforms and workflows within 30 days, and the employment admin, contracts, and payroll all stay on our side.

What does a Community Manager do?

A community manager is the daily host of your member space, keeping conversations moving and members supported. That gives your team back the hours currently spent watching channels.

  • Run daily moderation and member support across Discord, Slack, or Circle, so questions get answered within hours instead of days
  • Plan and host recurring programming like AMAs, office hours, and member spotlights that give people a reason to come back
  • Welcome and onboard new members with intros and prompts that turn lurkers into active participants
  • Track community health metrics and pass structured product feedback and bug reports to your team every week

When is it time to Hire a Community Manager?

Most teams decide to hire a community manager when the space they built starts running them. These are the usual signs.

Your Discord or Slack has hundreds of members but the same three people do all the talking

New members join, say nothing, and quietly leave because nobody greets them or shows them where to start

Support questions posted in the community sit unanswered until a founder notices them at night

You launched a community because customers asked for one, and now nobody on the team has time to run it

Ready to Hire a Community Manager? Give your members a real host and get your evenings back.

Hire a Community Manager

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire community manager through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Sets the tone deliberately, modeling the behavior they want members to copy instead of only enforcing rules

Spots rising tension and churn signals early, stepping in before threads become public complaints

Turns raw chatter into structured insight your product and marketing teams can actually act on

Builds programming members plan their week around, rather than posting announcements into a void

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Community Manager?

Hiring a community manager locally typically costs $5,000 to $7,000 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time community manager working directly inside your community platforms, support queue, and engagement dashboards.

Hiring locally
$5Kโ€“$7K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $2.5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We carry the employment relationship, contracts, payroll, and HR admin, so you get the work without the paperwork. Communities reward consistency above everything, and when you hire a community manager who shows up in your channels every single day, trust builds in a way no part-time moderator rotation can match.

Common Questions

How quickly can a community manager start?
Most placements are matched within weeks and fully embedded within 30 days, including moderator access, your escalation rules, and a handover of your community guidelines and rituals.
What experience level can I expect?
Typically 3 to 6+ years running communities for SaaS products, creator brands, or consumer apps, including moderation at scale, event programming, and reporting community health to leadership.
How do you screen community managers?
Structured skills-based testing, real-world scenarios like handling an angry power user or planning a launch-week engagement calendar, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. Writing tone is evaluated directly.
Which platforms and tools do they know?
Most work daily in Discord, Slack, Circle, Discourse, Common Room, Zendesk, and Notion. If your community lives somewhere else, they learn your setup during onboarding.
Can they cover the hours my community is most active?
Yes. When you hire a community manager through us, matching is based on when your members are actually online, so peak evening or weekend activity gets covered by agreement, not by luck.
How is this different from a freelance moderator or agency?
Moderators remove bad posts. A community manager owns growth, programming, onboarding, and feedback loops full time, inside your team, rather than splitting attention across several client servers.
Will they match our brand voice and moderation rules?
Yes. They onboard on your guidelines, tone, and escalation paths in the first weeks, and you review their responses early on until the voice is indistinguishable from your team.

Hire a Community Manager today

Your members deserve faster answers than your calendar allows. Hire a community manager who is vetted, embedded in weeks, and present every day, at a fraction of what a local hire costs.

Hire a Community Manager