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About the Team:
Grindr is an AI-native platform powering how millions of gay people connect globally. With 15M+ monthly users, 130B+ annual messages, and a team of fewer than 200, we move fast, stay lean, and tackle technical problems at a scale few companies ever see.
As our Social Media Community Coordinator, you’ll be the day-to-day voice of Grindr across our social channels - building genuine connection, sparking conversation, and helping our community feel seen, heard, and entertained.
You’ll sit at the heart of what’s happening online, translating pop culture, internet culture, and specifically gay internet culture into timely, funny, and culturally relevant engagement. From replying in the comments and joining the right conversations to identifying emerging moments, sentiment shifts, and community opportunities, you’ll help make Grindr an active, distinctive presence in the Global Gayborhood.
The ideal candidate is deeply immersed in the internet - chronically online, in the best way - with strong instincts for humor, tone, cultural relevance, and when a brand should join the chat. You’ll be confident engaging directly with a diverse community across platforms including TikTok, Instagram and X, while balancing playful, conversational interaction with sound judgment and brand safety.
This role requires strong community management, organizational and analytical skills. You’ll monitor conversation and sentiment, surface actionable insights and potential issues, support reactive engagement moments, and work closely with the wider Social, Content, Customer Experience and Communications teams to ensure Grindr shows up consistently and meaningfully for its audience.
At Grindr, we operate in Grindr Mode. Moderately hardcore day-to-day, truly hardcore when it counts. It’s about doing great work without burning out. Outcomes over outputs. Smart, driven people who raise your bar, with room to live full lives.
This is a hybrid role based in our Los Angeles or New York office and will require you to be in person on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
About the Job:
- Lead day-to-day community management across Grindr’s owned social channels, responding to relevant comments and engaging thoughtfully with the wider social conversation.
- Monitor conversations about Grindr across platforms, including user-generated content, memes, posts, and commentary, and identify opportunities for timely, reactive, or participatory content.
- Partner with the Social Content Manager to ensure community engagement, messaging, copy, and content are cohesive and optimized for each platform.
- Assist with scheduling and publishing social content, ensuring accuracy, quality, and channel-specific optimization.
- Track engagement, brand sentiment, audience retention, and emerging conversations; translate performance insights into clear recommendations for the team.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the creator and influencer landscape, surfacing relevant partners, content trends, and cultural moments.
- Help manage sensitive community moments with sound judgment, escalating issues appropriately and supporting crisis-response efforts when needed.
Role Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience in social media, community management, digital content, or a related role.
- Demonstrated experience writing concise, engaging, and platform-native copy for social media.
- Strong understanding of internet culture, meme cycles, online discourse, and LGBTQ+ communities and culture.
- Experience engaging directly with online communities and applying good judgment in high-volume or sensitive conversations.
- Experience using social media management, publishing, or analytics tools such as Sprinklr.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to track performance and turn data into actionable insights.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
You May Thrive in this Role if You:
- Have experience representing a consumer brand with a distinctive, bold tone of voice.
- Bring a sharp comedic sensibility and strong instincts for what will feel relevant, authentic, and culturally current.
- Have familiarity with basic design or video-editing tools, such as Canva, CapCut, or Adobe Creative Suite.
- Follow the creator and influencer landscape closely and can spot emerging talent, formats, and conversations early.
- Are comfortable moving quickly, balancing proactive planning with real-time opportunities.
Benefits and Perks:
- Health, Dental & Vision Full premium coverage for you. Partial coverage for dependents.
- Family Formation Up to $300,000 in fertility and family-building support, covering IVF, surrogacy, egg freezing, and adoption.
- Retirement: 401(k) with 6% match and immediate vesting.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation, company bonus, and equity for every employee.
- Gender-Affirming Care : Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Time Off & Rest Flexible vacation policy. Two company-wide rest weeks per year.
- Other Benefits: Monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch
About Grindr:
Grindr is building the Global Gayborhood in your Pocket. With more than 15 million monthly active users, Grindr has become a fundamental part of the gay community and is charting a path to make the world more free, equal, and just.
As a public company, we're moving into the next chapter: becoming an AI-native organization that's redefining what's possible for our community. We're embedding AI into our product and operations, moving with startup speed while operating at scale.
Everything we do is rooted in impact for our users and outcomes for the business. This isn't social work, it’s impact through excellence. Business success is what gives us the power to serve our community and the seat at tables others can't reach. How we work is defined by Grindr Mode, our operating model that's moderately hardcore day-to-day and truly hardcore when it counts. We think like owners, drive real outcomes, create clarity through action, and push each other to go further than we thought possible.
We’re headquartered in West Hollywood with offices in the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. Our work extends beyond the product through Grindr for Equality, our social impact initiative that's partnered with 100+ community organizations globally to advance safety, health, and human rights for LGBTQ+ people worldwide.
We're profitable, growing, and building a team of smart, driven people who bring different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to the work. Want to build technology at a massive scale that serves millions? Come join us!
Grindr is an equal-opportunity employer.
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