Gym Class is a top-rated social VR game on Meta Quest with over +79,000 reviews and a 4.9-star rating​. Millions of players join to connect with friends, explore social worlds, and engage in competitive games. The community launched around basketball, and is now expanding rapidly into more categories.

The company's mission is to connect the world by simulating it. To achieve this, Gym Class recently raised over $8M from the world's top technology investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Y Combinator, the National Basketball Association, the Golden State Warriors, top NBA players like Kevin Durant, Lonzo Ball, Andre Iguodala, Soma Capital, Founders Inc., Danny Green, Zaza Pachulia, Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, and more. In 2023, the company announced a licensing relationship with the NBA, and in 2025, its licensing relationship with the MLB.

Learn more at gymclass.com or follow @gymclassvr.

Role Summary

Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding Community Manager to design, test, and scale the programs that grow and engage our player base.

You’ll be the expert on community-driven growth: driving core community programs, experimenting to learn what works and what the community needs most, and then scaling it with systems, automations, and our community squad. You’ll own our Discord and Creator Program (driven >1 billion views) as the heartbeat of Gym Class outside the game, keeping our community energized, engaged, and growing.

If you thrive on building scalable processes out of scrappy experiments, love being in the trenches with players and creators, and want to shape how millions connect through Gym Class - this role is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Grow the community: Drive growth and retention through our Creator Program, Discord, and grassroots experiments.
• Prototype → Scale: Launch scrappy experiments (e.g. ranked tournaments, live events, Discord activations, Creator Program optimizations and incentives), gather learnings, then systematize into repeatable programs.
• Make Discord thrive: Increase active communicators, create eventful social moments, and ensure power users feel energized and connected.
• Empower creators: Recruit and partner with content creators, run events with them, and design programs that amplify their reach and impact. This program is mature and ready to take off further, garnering over 1 billion views across social platforms.
• Lead contractors & tools: Guide contracted community developers and a tools intern to scale programs, build automations, and run specialized initiatives.
• Build community like product: Treat community like a product surface - form hypotheses, test them, track KPIs, and double down on what works.
• Be the expert: Advise the whole team on how to build for and with our community, ensuring player needs inform product direction.

QUALIFICATIONS - you are…

• Community-first: 3–6+ years building and scaling engaged online communities (gaming, Discord, creators, or similar).
• Grassroots builder: You’ve designed and run programs that started small but grew into scalable systems.
• Growth-minded: Hypothesis-driven; you run experiments, analyze results, and refine quickly.
• Discord native: Deep knowledge of Discord culture, bots, and best practices for engagement at scale.
• Creator-friendly: Comfortable working with streamers, hosting events, and even being a community-facing presence yourself.
• Automation-savvy: Skilled with AI tools to prototype and automate systems, Google Sheets, Zapier, and even bots.
• High-agency: Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and ready to run with problems without waiting for permission.

Pay and Benefits

Salary ranges may be inclusive of several career levels and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Additional benefits for this role include: equity; and medical, dental, and vision benefits; and 401k retirement plan with matching.

• Backend: Node, AWS (dynamodb, lambda, api gateway, ecs, redis...).
• Web/Mobile: React.
• Gameplay (Mobile and VR): Unity, Maya, Blender, Normcore.
• Data & Analytics: Bigquery, Mixpanel