FounderON
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Community Manager - FounderON
£40,000 UK-based, remote
The role in one line
FounderON is a community for founders running businesses between £500k and £10m. We need one person to make it the place those founders turn up to every week.
What FounderON is
- A paid community, a library of courses, a weekly masterclass programme and a founder who exited his own business in 2021 and now advises around twenty others.
- There are three ways to work with us: the community itself, a premium tier for more established founders, and 1:1 advisory.
- You'd own the first two - not the selling of them, the running of them.
Members are real founders with staff, payroll and problems that keep them awake. They are not looking for content. They are looking for people who have solved the thing they are currently stuck on.
What you would own
These are the outcomes. How you get there is largely yours...
Nothing goes unanswered
- A founder posts a problem. They get a useful answer the same day. Every time.
- Some questions you'll answer. Most you won't - your job is knowing which member has already solved it and getting them into the thread.
- You do not need to be the expert. You need to know who is.
This is the single most important thing on this list. It is the promise the community is built on and it is currently not being kept consistently.
Measured by:
- Answer rate at 100%.
- Time to first useful answer, same day.
New members become actual members
Right now most people who join never post anything. That is the problem that matters most after the one above.
You'd own what happens in someone's first week: the welcome, the introduction, getting them in front of two or three members they should know, and noticing when someone has gone quiet before they disappear.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Measured by:
- Proportion of new members who post within seven days.
- Retention at month three.
The community is genuinely active
Members generating value for each other, rather than everyone waiting for the founder to post.
- Member introductions.
- Small accountability groups.
- Threads that run without prompting.
- Knowing the membership well enough to connect the right two people without being asked.
Measured by:
- Weekly active members, and the proportion who post or comment each month.
The programme runs
A weekly masterclass, live and recorded. Guest hosts recruited, briefed and scheduled. Recordings published. Regional meetups organised, mostly hosted by members in their own offices.
Much of this is logistics, and it needs to happen reliably rather than brilliantly. A masterclass that doesn't happen costs more than a mediocre one.
Measured by:
- Sessions delivered on schedule, attendance, and how many run without Chris presenting.
The premium tier works
A smaller, higher-priced tier for more established founders, organised into small peer groups that meet regularly.
You'd handle allocation to groups, scheduling, keeping the groups healthy, and reshuffling when they aren't working. Fixed time slots, so this is allocation rather than negotiation.
Measured by:
- Groups meeting as scheduled, retention within the tier.
What this role is not
You would not be selling anything, setting pricing, negotiating sponsorships or owning revenue. The founder does that.
If you want a commercial role with a revenue share, this isn't it. This is running a community properly, which is a real job and a hard one.
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Who this is for
- You've run a community before, or something close enough - a membership, a programme, a network, a large cohort.
- You know what a quiet Tuesday looks like and what to do about it.
- You're organised in a way that doesn't need chasing. A lot of this is making sure things happen on time, every time, without anyone reminding you.
- Sessions booked, hosts briefed, threads answered, people welcomed.
- You're comfortable talking to founders. Not as an expert - as someone who can ask a good question, spot what someone actually needs, and know which member to introduce them to.
- You can write. Short, direct, human. Not marketing copy.
- You're happy being early. Small operation, no team beneath you, plenty that doesn't exist yet. You'll do the work as well as organise it.
Honestly
FounderON has been going in various forms for three years and has not yet become what it should be. Engagement has been falling. Onboarding barely exists. The courses are being rebuilt. It has been run alongside a full advisory practice and it has not had the attention it needs.
That's why this role exists. You would be inheriting a real audience, real material and a real reputation, alongside a long list of things that aren't working yet.
The upside: you'd have unusual freedom to decide how this runs, and a founder who has built and sold a business and won't be looking over your shoulder.
To apply
Tell us about a community, programme or group you've run - what state it was in when you arrived and what state it was in when you left.
No CV needed unless you'd like to send one.
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