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Community Lead

Hercules
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/21/2026 CLOSED ON 4/21/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Lead position at Hercules?

What are we looking for?

Someone to lead and scale our community of 100k (and growing) builders.

What will you do?

  • Own and operate our public forum: https://hercules.app/forum
  • Triage, categorize, and summarize user feedback to inform the product roadmap
  • Build automations and workflows that make community support fast, scalable, and delightful
  • Help users build amazing Hercules apps
  • Jump on calls with users to unblock them quickly
  • Debug common issues and provide clear fixes or workarounds
  • Build lightweight features inside Hercules to solve recurring customer problems
  • Run weekly/monthly community events: office hours, hackathons, AMAs
  • Create and run a Hercules Ambassador program for top users
  • Reward and recognize top contributors
  • Facilitate introductions to partners when relevant

What skills do we expect you to have?

  • Strong TypeScript programming skills
  • Strong AI skills (prompting, agent workflows, debugging AI behavior)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • High-energy, creative, and community-first
  • Nice-to-have: prior experience running or scaling an online community

What are Hercules’ operating principles?

Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of them are specifically choices that we as a company unique prioritize and so can be learned on the job. However, we do specifically filter for these principles our hiring process:

  • We move with urgency. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds our learning and delights our customers.
  • We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
  • We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done. We are politely relentless.

Is Hercules in-office or remote?

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates in US time zones who would be willing/able to travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules’ benefits?

  • Healthcare, vision, and dental
  • User whatever AI tools you’d like (you have an unlimited AI budget)
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
  • We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

What’s the compensation?

$100k-$250k equity (depends on seniority, equity, and location)

Salary : $100,000 - $250,000

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