AI Community Manager & Entrepreneur Apprentice

AI Community Manager & Entrepreneur Apprentice

This Isn't a Marketing Job.

It isn't a sales job.

It isn't a content job.

It's all of those-and much more.

We're looking for someone who wants to learn how to build an AI-native business from the ground up.

You'll work directly with an experienced founder to lead one professional niche and help that community successfully adopt AI.

Your mission isn't to push products.

Your mission is to become the trusted guide for that profession.

As trust grows...

You'll help build newsletters, communities, courses, coaching programs, AI tools, software, and eventually an entire business around the problems you uncover.

You'll become the entrepreneur responsible for one professional community.

Every week you'll:

• Research one industry or profession
• Interview professionals about how they actually work
• Host podcast interviews and AI round tables
• Help create newsletters and educational content
• Build relationships with leaders in the industry
• Identify recurring business problems
• Test new ideas with real customers
• Grow an engaged online community
• Follow up with prospects
• Help sell coaching, courses, AI tools and software
• Work directly with the founder to shape new products

You'll use AI every day.

But you'll spend even more time talking to real people.

Because AI can summarize conversations.

It can't build trust.

Most companies ask you to execute someone else's plan.

We're asking you to help discover the plan.

You'll have access to:

• AI research tools
• AI writing tools
• AI automation
• AI prompt libraries
• Software prototypes
• Newsletter systems
• Drip campaigns
• Lead magnets
• Webinar frameworks
• Community platforms
• Direct mentoring from an experienced founder

Instead of starting with a product...

You'll start with people.

You'll learn what they struggle with.

Then you'll help build solutions they actually want.

You might be perfect if people describe you as:

• Curious
• Entrepreneurial
• Great at asking questions
• Comfortable talking with strangers
• A natural connector
• A good listener
• Self-motivated
• Resourceful
• Excited by AI
• Interested in business
• Comfortable taking ownership

You don't need decades of experience.

You do need initiative.

You'd rather interview customers than sit in meetings.

You enjoy hosting conversations.

You naturally ask follow-up questions.

You like connecting ideas.

You enjoy teaching people.

You don't mind hearing "no."

You want to build something instead of simply maintaining it.

You hope to start a company someday.

You probably won't enjoy it if:

You need detailed daily instructions.

You avoid talking to strangers.

You dislike selling.

You'd rather stay behind a computer.

You wait for someone else to solve problems.

You want a predictable corporate career.

What success looks like after 90 days:

• Interviewed dozens of professionals
• Hosted round tables and live discussions
• Built a growing newsletter
• Created educational AI resources
• Developed relationships inside one niche
• Identified valuable business opportunities
• Helped launch coaching, courses, AI tools, or software
• Made your first sales
• Learned how modern AI businesses are actually built

The goal isn't just to complete an apprenticeship.

The goal is to become someone capable of building and leading the next AI-first business.

We believe every profession will be transformed by AI over the next decade.

Rather than waiting for that future...

We're helping build it.

Refer.io combines AI, education, software, community, coaching, newsletters, events, and entrepreneurship to help professionals adapt faster and build better businesses.

We have an email subscriber base of 25 million, and growing, and we are looking to engage them and move them from being passive consumers of job alerts into active members of our job and AI clubs.

If you're excited by the idea of interviewing people, uncovering opportunities, building communities, testing ideas, selling real solutions, and learning directly from an experienced founder...

We'd love to hear from you.

One final question...

If someone gave you AI, an audience, mentorship, and 90 days...

What business would you build?

Tell us in your application.