Senior Community Manager

We're looking for a new team member to join our dbt community team—a group of passionate community builders dedicated to empowering data practitioners worldwide.

In this role, you'll lead our digital engagement efforts, with a primary focus on managing and growing the dbt Slack community.

You'll cultivate a welcoming, high-signal space for data practitioners to connect, learn, and collaborate—partnering with internal teams and community leaders to strengthen member experience, drive participation, and surface community insights.

This is a unique opportunity to shape how data practitioners engage with dbt and with each other every day across the globe.

• Own day-to-day operations of the dbt Slack community, ensuring a welcoming, high-signal experience for members worldwide
• Partner with community leaders and internal stakeholders to evolve channel strategy, community guidelines, and engagement programming
• Develop and maintain scalable moderation and support workflows (triage, escalation paths, response playbooks) including Code of Conduct enforcement
• Coach and support moderators and community champions; recruit and onboard new moderators as the community grows
• Create content systems that keep members informed and activated (announcements, highlights, prompts, and community storytelling)
• Surface community insights and member feedback to Product, Marketing, and Support; close the loop with the community on outcomes
• Monitor and report on key engagement and health metrics (growth, activation, retention, response times, sentiment) and run experiments to improve them
• Manage the community tool stack for digital engagement (Slack workflows, analytics, knowledge base, integrations, web portal) and document best practices
• Plan for and manage incident response in collaboration with Legal/People/Security as needed (harassment, safety, sensitive topics)
• Support cross-channel digital engagement efforts beyond Slack (community forums, social, events) to create a cohesive member journey

• 5+ years of experience in digital community management, online engagement, or community program management in a global or distributed environment
• Demonstrated experience owning day-to-day operations for a large online community (e.g., Slack/Discord/forum), including moderation, member support, and community health
• Strong understanding of online community dynamics and how to cultivate trust, belonging, and shared purpose at scale
• Experience building and improving moderation and support workflows (triage, escalation paths, response playbooks), including Code of Conduct enforcement
• Excellent written communication and facilitation skills—able to respond clearly and empathetically, de-escalate issues, and encourage productive conversation
• Experience using community tooling and analytics (e.g., Slack workflows, Common Room, and/or similar) to track engagement, identify trends, and drive improvement
• Data-informed decision making, including defining KPIs for engagement and health, measuring impact, and reporting outcomes to stakeholders
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, partnering effectively with Product, Marketing, Support, and Developer Experience to close the loop with the community
• Cultural fluency and sensitivity to differences in communication styles across regions and timezones
• High emotional intelligence and comfort navigating complex situations (conflict, ambiguity, sensitive topics)
• Comfort prioritizing work across multiple streams in a fast-paced environment, balancing structure with flexibility

• Built and scaled a high-engagement Slack/Discord community with measurable impact (activation/retention, response time, sentiment), using experiments and programming
• Demonstrated crisis/incident leadership in online spaces (CoC enforcement, safety/escalation), with sound judgment in high-stakes situations
• Community-as-a-product operator: turns member insights into roadmap/marketing outcomes and consistently closes the loop with the community
• Builder mindset with tooling: designs scalable workflows and automation (intake/triage/routing), plus analytics and knowledge systems to reduce manual load

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• Monthly cell phone stipend
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