Community & Partnerships Manager

Your Role

This role is responsible for building Overtone’s founding community in New York City. You will build relationships and leverage networks and communities; responding to early demand by building a waitlist of sought-after singles excited about a better way to date. New York comes first, but you'll build a playbook we can repeat city-by-city as we grow. This role reports to our Head of Communications.

What You'll Do

• Design and run a scouting program; recruiting and supporting a small team of scouts to identify the people who belong in Overtone’s early community.
• Build relationships with communities, clubs, hosts, and venues that connect the people we’re looking for, and develop partnerships and shared events to drive early growth.
• Set the bar for the intentional daters we want to bring in, and do the personal, direct outreach it takes to build a community, with a focus on building a diverse pool of exceptional people.
• Partner with our Membership Manager to ensure all new members have a seamless, premium experience and feel supported as they try something new.

Who You Are

• 5+ years growing a consumer, membership, hospitality or lifestyle brand through community, partnerships and word of mouth.
• An established network in New York across worlds like founders and operators, arts and design, food, music, members' clubs and social scenes, or a proven ability to get inside them fast.
• Experience building referral, ambassador, scout or partnership programs from day one and running them well.
• The instincts and vibe of a great host: warmth, respectful, discretion, and the ability to curate a group of good, kind, interesting people. You’re known among your friends as a connector, and maybe even a matchmaker.
• Comfort and experience in an early-stage startup environment.
• A hands-on executor who can build a strategy but will also hit the pavement and knock on doors to make things happen.
• Aligned to our core values of connection, simplicity, and intentionality.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary range for this role is $140,000 - $190,000. This position will receive meaningful stock options with considerable upside potential. We provide standard benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, etc.

Our Core Qualities

We look for these qualities in everyone we hire at Overtone.

• Curiosity: You seek to understand before you decide. You ask thoughtful questions, test assumptions, and stay open to changing your mind as new information emerges.
• Craft: You care deeply about quality and coherence. You simplify complexity, exercise good judgment, and take pride in work that feels intentional, thoughtful, and well-made.
• Collaboration: You engage with others honestly and generatively. You challenge ideas with respect, listen deeply, and help synthesize perspectives into clearer, better outcomes.
• Care: You take responsibility for people and outcomes. You act with integrity, follow through on commitments, and protect trust—with users, teammates, and the work itself.

About Overtone

Overtone is a modern matchmaking company, from the creator of Hinge. We’re building a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, grounded in relationship science. There’s no profiles or swiping. We get to know people in their own voice, then make thoughtful introductions, one at a time, to people we think are worth meeting. The service is in beta-testing and not yet open to the public. We’re building a small team of people passionate about relationships and human connection, to work together in person in our NYC office (5 days a week in Flatiron).