Community & Operations
Role
Community & Operations
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment Type
Full time
Work Schedule
In person Mon–Fri • Remote Saturdays
Compensation
$80K – $140K
Apply NowWhy join us?
- People want what we make. We have 10x Tinder's match-to-date conversion rate, better week 4 retention than every major dating app in the world, and acquire users at a 5x lower cost than industry standard. The market has spoken: people want what we're building.
- We work on the most important factor for happiness. Meaningful relationships are the single strongest predictor of a fulfilling life. But the past two decades of social technology has pulled us toward infinite feeds and strangers online. Our mission is to ensure AI bends the arc back toward relationships that make life meaningful.
- We're backed by people who see consumer early. We've raised several million from some of the first investors in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Slack, and Notion. They include Mark Pincus (Zynga founder), Elad Gil, Mar Hershenson (founder / MP at Pear VC), and Andy Chen (former GP at Kleiner Perkins / Coatue).
Learn more about our work: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Morning Brew
About The Relationship Company
Most social products make people lonelier. We were on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for building the one that doesn't.
We are a public benefit company building the social platform for meaningful, in-person connection. At our core is an AI system that deeply understands people and predicts who would like each other - we can identify whether two people in our network are close friends with 90% AUC while relying on zero social graph data.
Today, this powers Date Drop. But dating is just the start. Our mission is to help people find and nurture every relationship that defines a life: friends, mentors, collaborators.
We're led by a second-time founder who's spent five years building matching systems, with experience building core product & brand at early LangChain and Chris Re's lab at Stanford.
Your role
You'd be our first community & operations hire, working directly with the founder to turn Date Drop into a movement by launching unforgettable events, growing thriving campus communities, and building the operations that help it all scale.
- Organize weekly events in the city: find and negotiate with venues, create marketing materials, run advertising, and make each event something people tell their friends about
- Run our campus network: manage the student clubs running Date Drop at our live schools, keep them energized and performing, and grow the network through cold outreach to new clubs and campuses
- Own outreach on behalf of the founder: partnerships, press, recruiting, and growth
- Own back-office operations
- Automate the repetitive parts of your workflow with AI tools: outreach sequencing, event ops checklists, and club health tracking, so you spend your time on the human parts
About you
- You have exceptional executive function: you juggle many workstreams & are highly conscientious
- You've organized real events: you know what it's like when the venue cancels, the RSVPs don't show, or the sound system dies, and you handled it
- You're energized by talking to people, whether club presidents, bar managers, or strangers on LinkedIn, and you know how to build rapport quickly
- You write copy that gets replies: cold outreach, event promos, campus emails
- You've managed people or partners before
- Bonus: you use AI tools to automate parts of your own workflow
- You care that the work you do is good for the world
- You value working with people who are kind, curious, and pragmatic
What you'll get
- $80K–$140K total compensation
- Generous budget for AI tooling
- Free lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Work out of a beautiful office in San Francisco
- In-office gym
- $100/month relationship stipend—for dates, experiences, gifts, or whatever helps you invest in your relationships
- $100/month wellness stipend
- Top-tier health, vision & dental
How to apply
Send an email with the subject “Community & Operations” to henry@relationship.co with:
- Your resume
- Your LinkedIn / personal website
- A few examples of events, communities, or operations you've owned. Tell us what you made happen.
- A :) somewhere in your email
Apply NowInterview loop
Our loop is designed to be enjoyable, reflect the work that you'll be doing, give you the space to fully express what makes you unique, and require minimal preparation. We aim to go from first call to offer within 2 weeks.
- 20 min coffee chat. We get to know each other. What are your values? What do you want out of life? How does your work fit into that?
- Take-home exercise. We send you a community & operations problem to complete on your own time. It should take no longer than 2 hours.
- 40 min final round. We role-play a real-world conversation where you have to convince us to say yes.
- Offer. We'll celebrate with dinner, get you set up, and start building together!