Community Lead

Lightfield

$120K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven success in a fast-paced early-stage environment.
  • Experience leading and engaging communities of high-caliber individuals.
  • Strong empathy for the challenges faced by startup teams.
  • Demonstrated expertise in organizing and executing high-quality events.
  • Exceptional writing and communication skills.
  • Deep interest in AI's impact on go-to-market strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a community for early-stage founders interested in GTM.
  • Design and execute engaging in-person events for the founder community.
  • Create structured community programs to drive member engagement.
  • Manage and grow an active Slack community focused on GTM discussions.
  • Leverage conversations to develop content that highlights best practices.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful early equity opportunities
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage
  • Generous PTO and paid holidays
  • Paid family leave
  • Flexible work environment with remote options
  • Team-building dinners and offsite events
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Commuter and lunch stipends
Full Job Description
About the role

We are building Lightfield to be the most helpful, valuable, and significant company in GTM tech. To do this, we're assembling an elite go-to-market team to establish category leadership in CRM, and are starting by partnering with the most innovative early-stage companies.
We're hiring for a Head of Community to mobilize the early-stage founder ecosystem around Lightfield - building a tight online + offline network centered around our HQ in San Francisco. This person will report directly to our Head of GTM.

What you'll do
  • Build and lead the Lightfield founder community. Identify, invite, and cultivate relationships with high-caliber early-stage founders who care about GTM, with a focus on building deep, authentic relationships.
  • Run an in-person event engine. Design and execute events that founders actually want to attend, including events at our San Francisco HQ, as well as activations at third-party tradeshows.
  • Create repeatable community programs. Build structured programs like founder circles, GTM clinics, or "build your first outbound motion" cohorts - and iterate based on what drives real outcomes for members.
  • Grow and manage our founder Slack. Turn Slack into a true peer community where founders share GTM questions, wins, and playbooks with each other. Seed discussions, make intros, and spotlight the best conversations.
  • Turn conversations into content. Capture learnings from events, office hours, and Slack, and turn them into lightweight content (posts, clips, templates) that showcase how the best founders are running modern GTM.
Who you are
  • Track record of success at a fast-paced early-stage company. We have an incredibly ambitious vision, and work hard to achieve it. You're comfortable with an intense pace, with high standards, and with wearing many hats.
  • Community leadership experience. You know what it takes to get high-caliber people to show up and stay engaged.
  • Deep empathy. You understand the reality of running a small team: juggling product, GTM, fundraising, and hiring. You can talk credibly about go-to-market, not just "community."
  • World-class event operator. You sweat the details - guest lists, room composition, timing, the first 5 minutes of an event. You've shipped events end-to-end and can share examples of formats that worked (and ones that didn't).
  • Strong writer and communicator. You can write crisp, no-fluff invites, follow-ups, and posts that get busy founders to respond. You're comfortable on-stage or moderating a panel, and don't mind being a visible face of the community.
  • Passionate about AI and modern GTM. You're curious about how AI is changing GTM, and you want to be right in the middle of the teams figuring it out in real time.


Benefits & Perks
  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful early equity
  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 3 weeks of PTO
  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break
  • 3 months of paid family leave
  • Wednesdays work from home
  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats
  • 401k plan
  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

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