Technical Community Lead

Hercules

• $80K — $180K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong TypeScript proficiency for debugging and guidance
  • Robust AI skills including prompting and debugging AI behavior
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • High-energy and creative mindset with community focus
  • Preferably has experience in managing and scaling online communities

Responsibilities

  • Own the public forum and ensure all user inquiries are addressed
  • Provide hands-on technical support to help users build apps and solve issues
  • Develop and implement scalable automation systems for support
  • Run community engagement programs such as AMAs and hackathons
  • Establish a feedback loop to inform product improvements and resolve recurring issues

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision, and dental coverage
  • Unlimited budget for AI tools
  • Flexible vacation policy with no limits on time off
  • Daily meals, snacks, and refreshments at the office
  • Assurance of performing your best work in a supportive environment
Full Job Description
What are we looking for?
We're hiring a technical Community Lead to own our public forum and keep users unblocked. You are hands-on: you can debug, give architecture guidance, and jump on calls when needed. You also build scalable community systems (automation, ambassadors, events) and run the feedback loop into product/support.

What will you lead?
  • Forum ownership + support routing: ensure every thread gets answered or redirected correctly (docs, support ticket, technical escalation)
  • Hands-on technical help: help users build apps, debug common issues, provide fixes/workarounds, and hop on calls to unblock
  • Automation + workflows: build systems that make support fast and scalable (macros, templates, AI workflows, routing)
  • Community programs: ambassadors, rewards/recognition, office hours, AMAs, hackathons
  • Feedback loop: triage/categorize/summarize themes and feed them into roadmap decisions; build lightweight fixes for recurring issues when needed

What skills do we expect you to have?
  • Strong TypeScript (you can actually debug and advise)
  • Strong AI skills (prompting, agent workflows, debugging AI behavior)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • High-energy, creative, community-first
  • Nice-to-have: experience running/scaling an online community


Is Hercules in-office or remote?

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates in US time zones who would be willing/able to travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules' benefits?
  • Healthcare, vision, and dental
  • User whatever AI tools you'd like (you have an unlimited AI budget)
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
  • We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here


What's the compensation?

$80k-$180k + equity (depends on seniority, equity, and location)

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