Community Manager

Garage.app is building AI-driven SaaS products for founders, operators, and builders who want practical tools to move faster. We work in a fast-paced startup environment where experimentation, rapid iteration, and real user feedback shape everything we create.

Now, we are building more than products were building communities around them.

We are looking for a Community Manager who enjoys bringing people together, creating meaningful engagement, and helping early users become active advocates for the brand. This role is ideal for someone who understands startup culture, thrives in dynamic environments, and can help build strong ecosystems around emerging products.

If you enjoy connecting people, sparking conversations, and growing communities that create real impact, we would love to hear from you.

Role Overview

This is not a traditional social media community role. At Garage.app, we are building a founder-centric, product-driven ecosystem around our AI-powered SaaS tools. We are looking for someone who can bring together founders, developers, product builders, and early adopters who enjoy experimenting with new tools and contributing to how products evolve.

In this role, you will act as the bridge between the community and the product team turning conversations, feedback, and user insights into meaningful product direction. You will help create an engaged community where users are not just consumers, but active contributors shaping the future of Garage.app.

What You Will Do

Build the Community from the Ground Up

Create and manage Garage.app's community spaces across Slack, Discord, private forums and similar platforms

Attract founders, indie hackers, developers, and SaaS operators into the ecosystem

Develop a sense of belonging and active participation within the community

Turn Users into Contributors

Identify early adopters and turn them into power users and product champions

Encourage members to share feedback, use cases, and product experiments

Build programs such as community ambassadors, beta testers, and product champions

Drive Conversations That Matter

Initiate discussions around product building, AI tools, SaaS growth, and startup journeys

Encourage knowledge sharing among founders and builders in the community

Create a culture where members help each other succeed

Create Engaging Community Experiences

Run AMAs, founder discussions, product demos, and live feedback sessions

Organize virtual meetups, builder sessions, and collaborative problem-solving events

Launch challenges or experiments that encourage members to try and build with Garage.app products

Close the Feedback Loop

Gather meaningful feedback and user insights from the community

Work closely with the product and engineering teams to translate insights into improvements

Ensure that the community sees how their input shapes product development

Help Grow the Ecosystem

Support the marketing team with community-driven growth initiatives

Identify potential partnerships with startup ecosystems, founders, and creator communities

Encourage organic advocacy and word-of-mouth growth

We Are Looking For

This role is ideal for someone who naturally gravitates toward building communities and ecosystems around technology and startups. You might be a community builder in a startup or SaaS company, a developer relations or product community lead, a founder or operator who enjoys connecting people, or someone deeply embedded in startup, AI, or SaaS ecosystems.

Experience

36 years of experience in community building, developer relations, SaaS ecosystem development, or startup growth

Experience managing online communities, founder networks, or product user groups

Exposure to SaaS products, AI tools, startup communities, or developer ecosystems

Demonstrated ability to grow and engage a digital community

Skills

Excellent communication and storytelling ability

Strong relationship-building skills with founders, developers, and early adopters

Familiarity with community tools such as Slack, Discord, Circle, or similar platforms

Ability to identify patterns in user feedback and communicate insights to product teams

Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment where experimentation is encouraged

Personality Traits

Builder enjoys creating something meaningful from scratch

Curious about technology and AI naturally interested in new tools and experimentation

Community-first genuinely enjoys helping others succeed

Proactive does not wait for conversations to start, creates them

Resilient comfortable with ambiguity and evolving roles in a startup

Connector loves bringing interesting people together

Why This Role Matters

At Garage.app, the community will not simply be an audience it will be a core part of how our products are built and evolved. We are creating a founder-first ecosystem where builders, innovators, developers, and early adopters actively shape the future of our AI-driven SaaS tools through collaboration, experimentation, and real feedback.

This role goes far beyond community management. We are looking for someone who can build and nurture a thriving network from the ground up bringing together ambitious people who want to create, test, contribute, and grow alongside the product.

You will help establish one of Indias most ambitious startup-driven product communities, acting as the bridge between users and the product team while turning engagement into meaningful product evolution.