Community Manager

Spikeball Community Manager

For 17 years, community has been a core driver of our business. Your mission is to build and execute a strategy that will formalize and grow mutually beneficial relationships with local roundnet organizers and tournament directors. You will achieve this by becoming our fully dedicated liaison to the competitive and casual roundnet communities. You will engage with committees running championship level events, as well as college students and social clubs starting groups to play casually. You will help Spikeball support and learn from all of these groups. Your core responsibility is to identify, engage, equip, and enable roundnet and Spikeball enthusiasts and become their trusted partner. You will ensure Spikeball is not only the obvious equipment provider enjoyed by all, but is also the ideal partner to help them grow their local communities. Their feedback will help guide continuous innovation within our products and services, and help fuel our growth.

This job entails

• Supporting and growing our North American communities, while also serving as the key liaison for our major international (especially European) partners.
• Cultivating authentic, personal relationships with players, tournament directors, and local roundnet organizations through calls, email, social media, and IRL. You will provide encouragement and empathy and find creative ways to enable their efforts.
• Representing Spikeball at key events, showing both strategic presence and community allyship.
• Assisting with partnership negotiations and sponsorship contracts
• Helping others formalize clubs, leagues, or tournaments
• Managing an annual budget and deploying resources according to approved plans

College Roundnet Series

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Spikeball App

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About Us

At Spikeball, our mission is to bring people together and help them find their circle. Our products inspire connectiongetting people outside, staying active, and building friendships, all while playing a game they love.

Over the past 17+ years, we haven't just improved an existing gamewe've built an entirely new category around the sport of roundnet. And we're just getting started.

With a passionate global community, strong brand recognition, and products people genuinely love, we see massive growth opportunities ahead. The missing link? A world-class growth community manager to fuel the next chapter of our expansion.

We run our business using the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to stay focused, accountable, and aligned. Unlike companies with outside funding chasing short-term wins, we're playing the long game. We control our own destiny, scaling in a way that prioritizes sustainable, long-term, profitable success.

At Spikeball, we live by five core values, and we're looking for someone who embodies them :

Motivated You're driven to improve, optimize, and push boundaries.

Proactive You don't wait for direction; you see challenges and solve them.

Collaborative You thrive in a team environment and work seamlessly across departments.

Challenge the Status Quo You constantly ask, "Is there a smarter, better way?"

Disciplined You set ambitious goals, track progress, and iterate for results.

A few thoughts from our founder and CEO, Chris Ruder :

"I'm pumped about this role. We need a social connector that can build and execute a strategy that results in trust, global relationships, and position the business and brand as one that is here to help. At its core, this is a hospitality role. We need a person who can show up with a servant leader mentality. The right person will get tingles up their spine when they see their work result in more people coming together and having fun. For example, when I see friends that have met through roundnet, I get a tremendous sense of pride that I had a little something to do with that. Some players end up getting married and having kids; that is just the best. I don't need you playing roundnet with the community, but you are definitely here to strengthen the bonds within it. You must have experience building a formal community building strategy. It must include how best to engage with hundreds of college clubs, tournament directors all over the world, as well as community leaders of social / casual clubs. Once built, you will execute against KPI's to make sure progress is being made. You will help us think about some potential conflicting interests, like serving the competitive and casual / social communities, domestic vs international, etc. Here's another tricky one who should get free sets? We donate a TON every year. How will you decide who should get them? Take a minute and read about the role of Community Manager. It gives a good overview. Good luck!"