Community Manager

Location: New York City preferred / Hybrid or Remote

Role Type: Full-Time

About Healthcare Shares

Healthcare Shares is a venture capital firm and healthcare entrepreneurship community focused on bringing together healthcare professionals, founders, investors, executives, and innovators.

Alongside our investment activities, we operate a growing community of approximately 2,000 healthcare professionals interested in entrepreneurship, startups, investing, and innovation.

Our goal is to grow Healthcare Shares into a community of 100,000 healthcare professionals while making the community an increasingly valuable resource for the founders and companies we invest in.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly social, and creative Community Manager to help us build that community.

The Role

The Community Manager will be responsible for growing, engaging, and activating the Healthcare Shares community.

This is much more than a social media or event-planning position.

You will help build an ecosystem around Healthcare Shares that connects healthcare professionals with founders, investors, mentors, potential customers, employers, and business opportunities.

You will also work closely with our venture capital team and portfolio companies to figure out how the Healthcare Shares community can help our founders grow their businesses.

The ideal candidate is someone who loves bringing people together, creating interesting experiences, building relationships, and thinking creatively about how a professional community can create value.

Responsibilities

Community Growth

• Develop and execute strategies to grow Healthcare Shares from approximately 2,000 members to 100,000 members.
• Recruit healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and other relevant members into the community.
• Grow membership through Linked In, Instagram, Facebook, newsletters, partnerships, events, referrals, and other channels.
• Develop referral programs, ambassador programs, partnerships, and other creative strategies for community growth.
• Identify healthcare organizations, universities, medical schools, business schools, professional associations, and other communities that could become distribution or community partners.
• Track membership growth, engagement, event participation, referrals, and other key community metrics.

A major part of this role will be helping our portfolio companies take advantage of the Healthcare Shares community.

Responsibilities will include:

• Help portfolio companies identify and connect with potential customers within the Healthcare Shares network.
• Introduce founders to healthcare executives, clinicians, operators, employers, health systems, insurers, and other potential customers or strategic partners.
• Help entrepreneurs identify and connect with potential investors within the community.
• Promote fundraising announcements and portfolio company milestones to relevant members.
• Work with founders to identify specific ways the community can help accelerate their businesses.
• Create opportunities for portfolio companies to present products, conduct customer discovery, recruit pilot customers, or receive feedback from healthcare professionals.
• Feature portfolio company founders through events, podcasts, newsletters, and social media.
• Help portfolio companies recruit employees by distributing job opportunities throughout the Healthcare Shares community.
• Maintain a regular portfolio company jobs board or job-posting program for community members.
• Create programs that encourage members to become customers, advisors, mentors, employees, investors, or partners of Healthcare Shares portfolio companies.

The goal is to make the Healthcare Shares community a meaningful competitive advantage for the companies we invest in.

Events & Community Programming

You will be responsible for creating a regular calendar of high-quality events that bring the healthcare entrepreneurship ecosystem together.

• Startup pitch nights where founders present their companies to members of the Healthcare Shares community.
• Founder and investor networking events.
• Healthcare startup networking nights.
• Founder dinners and round tables.
• Educational workshops and panels.
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