Lead Community Manager (remote in Europe)

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are CodeControl and 9am, and we live for the #freelancerevolution. It’s an exciting time to join us and work remotely!

With our two brands CodeControl and 9am, we are shaping the future of work. To do this, we help freelancers and businesses collaborate more easily. With CodeControl, we have built a community of the best tech freelancers in Europe. We bring them together with exciting projects for great companies and support them in any way we can. 

Our new SaaS product 9am is a platform for all freelancers, offering them better jobs, less admin and a more organized freelancer life with everything in one place. For businesses, 9am is an easy way to manage their freelancer network and talent providers, and centrally organize their legal, compliance, and financial issues when working with freelancers.

Job Description

As a Lead Community Manager focusing on growth, you’ll be responsible for sourcing and interviewing our community applicants, but also plan our future community growth. You’ll have the chance to develop your own community growth strategy and bring your expertise to execute on it. You’re a people person, a strong networker and have an entrepreneurial mindset, while also being able to dive into numbers and make data driven decisions.

Leading a small team and reporting directly to our Founder/CEO Marc Clemens, be part of an exciting journey to improve the future of work. 9am is a brand new community so this is an opportunity to develop and build it from scratch and help freelancers to thrive in their development through meaningful projects. We need someone who has built a new community before, not only managed an existing community. This could be online or offline communities. 

 

What you’ll do

  • Develop and build our new 9am community from scratch, while maintaining our existing CodeControl community 

  • Create a community engagement strategy and then project manage the implementation of it

  • Lead a small team to help deliver on your strategy 

  • Outreach to potential partners and communities

  • Maintain a high quality of new talent in the community

  • Encourage our talent to refer other talent and follow-up on those

  • Ensure that our most promising talent have individual support in their freelance career

 

What we’re looking for

  • Experience in building a community, whether online or offline such as a co-working space

  • Experience developing and implementing new initiatives for a community

  • Someone who thrives with both strategy and being a hands on doer

  • An understanding of tech roles and career options in tech is a plus, such as a basic understanding of different types of developers

  • Fluent in English

  • Based in Europe time zones or similar

 

What we offer

  • 100% remote company (+ office space in Berlin). Work from anywhere

  • Collaborate with a well-rounded international team of experts who share a strong sense of purpose

  • Vision and values ​​driven team shaping the future of work in the technology industry

  • Feedback culture, agile, goal and technology oriented work

  • Small and growing startup where you can make a big impact

  • A company with strong sales growth (+ 100% YoY)

  • Unlimited paid holidays and flexible hours

 

We look forward to your application! Please answer these questions with your application to be considered. Please note that this is a senior level community management role that requires prior specific community management experience:

  • What interests you about CodeControl and 9am?
  • What is your experience with building and growing a new community? 
  • What is your experience with managing an existing community?

 

We are big fans of diversity. At CodeControl and 9am, everyone is accepted, included, and celebrated, irrespective of their sexual orientation, culture, gender, religion, physical ability, or the absence of any of these!