Community and Partnerships Manager

Job description

# **Your Role** This role is responsible for building Overtone’s founding community in New York City. You will build relationships and leverage networks and communities; responding to early demand by building a waitlist of sought-after singles excited about a better way to date. New York comes first, but you'll build a playbook we can repeat city-by-city as we grow. This role reports to our Head of Communications. ## **What You'll Do** - Design and run a scouting program; recruiting and supporting a small team of scouts to identify the people who belong in Overtone’s early community. - Build relationships with communities, clubs, hosts, and venues that connect the people we’re looking for, and develop partnerships and shared events to drive early growth. - Set the bar for the intentional daters we want to bring in, and do the personal, direct outreach it takes to build a community, with a focus on building a diverse pool of exceptional people. - Partner with our Membership Manager to ensure all new members have a seamless, premium experience and feel supported as they try something new. ## **Who You Are** - 5+ years growing a consumer, membership, hospitality or lifestyle brand through community, partnerships and word of mouth. - An established network in New York across worlds like founders and operators, arts and design, food, music, members' clubs and social scenes, or a proven ability to get inside them fast. - Experience building referral, ambassador, scout or partnership programs from day one and running them well. - The instincts and vibe of a great host: warmth, respectful, discretion, and the ability to curate a group of good, kind, interesting people. You’re known among your friends as a connector, and maybe even a matchmaker. - Comfort and experience in an early-stage startup environment. - A hands-on executor who can build a strategy but will also hit the pavement and knock on doors to make things happen. - Aligned to our core values of connection, simplicity, and intentionality. # **Compensation & Benefits** Salary of $140k to $190k. This position will receive meaningful stock options with considerable upside potential. We provide standard benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, etc. # **Our Core Qualities** *We look for these qualities in everyone we hire at Overtone.* **Curiosity:** You seek to understand before you decide. You ask thoughtful questions, test assumptions, and stay open to changing your mind as new information emerges. **Craft:** You care deeply about quality and coherence. You simplify complexity, exercise good judgment, and take pride in work that feels intentional, thoughtful, and well-made. **Collaboration:** You engage with others honestly and generatively. You challenge ideas with respect, listen deeply, and help synthesize perspectives into clearer, better outcomes. **Care:** You take responsibility for people and outcomes. You act with integrity, follow through on commitments, and protect trust—with users, teammates, and the work itself. # **About Overtone** Overtone is a modern matchmaking company, from the creator of Hinge. We’re building a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, grounded in relationship science. There’s no profiles or swiping. We get to know people in their own voice, then make thoughtful introductions, one at a time, to people we think are worth meeting. The service is in beta-testing and not yet open to the public. We’re building a small team of people passionate about relationships and human connection, to work together in person in our NYC office (5 days a week in Flatiron).