Scale AI

Contributor Experience Manager, Community

Scale AI$134K — $168K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, finance, or related field.
  • Minimum five years experience in communications, marketing operations, or project management.
  • Proven experience managing large-scale communities on platforms like Slack, Discord, or Discourse.
  • Exceptional communication skills with clear, concise writing is essential.
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into digestible content.
  • Data-driven mindset with capacity to analyze metrics and adjust strategies.
  • Experience managing at least one direct report and ensuring accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Create strategies to boost contributor participation and satisfaction.
  • Develop systems to address questions, feedback, and disputes across platforms.
  • Set direction for multi-team areas and inspire alignment among stakeholders.
  • Organize virtual events to enhance connections and monitor community sentiment.
  • Leverage user feedback to improve product and operational strategies.
  • Instill ownership and drive collaboration across teams.
  • Draft clear communications for contributors, ensuring consistency throughout.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits with employer contributions.
  • Learning and development stipend for professional growth.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) policy.
  • Possible commuter stipend for eligible employees.
Full Job Description
Scale's Generative AI business unit is experiencing historic growth. As the Community Manager, you will spearhead initiatives connecting hundreds of thousands of expert contributors on our platform. This is a strategic operational role requiring the execution of an operator, program manager, and creative writer. You'll need an entrepreneurial mindset, operational rigor, and the ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders across internal and external community channels.

You will ensure that our global network of contributors stay engaged and informed so that they can do their best work. You will manage communications, execute virtual campaigns and events, and develop strategies to grow and retain our contributor base. This pivotal role shapes community culture, facilitates a thoughtful contributor experience, and harnesses the energy of our community in order to achieve high-level business goals. You must employ creative problem-solving to resolve complex operational challenges and manage the communications cadence across diverse stakeholders.

In this role you will:
  • Create strategies to increase participation and satisfaction, overseeing external platforms like Reddit and managing our internal Outlier Community
  • Develop systems to efficiently channel questions, feedback, and disputes across our platforms and social channels
  • Lead with vision: Set direction for multi-team areas and inspire clarity and alignment
  • Organize virtual events to foster connection and monitor community sentiment in order to proactively mitigate risk and address concerns
  • Leverage user feedback, insights, and quantitative metrics to drive improvement in product and operational strategies
  • Enable the team: Instill ownership, drive cross-team collaboration, and remove structural blockers
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including operations, support, communications, marketing, and legal to maintain alignment and ensure cohesive messaging
  • Draft all manner of communications that Scale sends to contributors, maintaining consistent messaging across the contributor journey

Ideally, you'll have:
  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, finance, or a related field
  • Minimum five years of experience in communications, marketing operations, field operations, program management, or project management
  • Proven experience managing active, large-scale communities (thousands of members) on platforms like Slack, Discord or Discourse
  • Exceptional communication skills, with writing that has flawless spelling and grammar, is clear, concise, and tone-appropriate
  • The ability to synthesize complex details into accessible, digestible content
  • A data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze metrics and adapt strategies accordingly
  • High ownership orientation with a willingness to execute operational tasks directly to achieve successful outcomes
  • Passion for building positive, engaging community experiences
  • Can use SQL and/or Claude Code to derive insights from data (or wants to learn, quickly)
  • Experience managing at least one direct report and holding them accountable to outcomes


Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$134,400-$168,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Scale AI

Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company that provides data annotation services to improve machine learning algorithms. The company's platform offers a range of services including image annotation, text annotation, and 3D annotation. Scale AI was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Scale AI
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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