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Community Manager Resident

VeeFriendsNew York, NYContract$66k – $73k
Posted todayDeadline: Sep 28, 2026External listing
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Curator Summary

You'll manage VeeFriends' social presence across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X by spotting viral trends in real time, writing high-performing captions and hooks, and engaging authentically with creators, collectors, and fans to amplify brand culture. This fast-paced community role demands someone deeply plugged into internet culture who can execute same-day content opportunities while balancing proactive outreach with reactive community management based on performance data.

About the Role

The Role

As Community Manager Resident, you will play a key role in growing and energizing the VeeFriends community across social platforms. This role requires someone who is highly plugged into internet culture, understands what makes content perform, and knows how to engage authentically with fans, collectors, creators, and adjacent communities.

You will be responsible for both proactive and reactive community management: joining relevant conversations, identifying opportunities for VeeFriends to show up in culture, responding to comments and DMs, amplifying partner content, and helping shape a consistent, engaging brand voice across platforms.

This is a fast-moving, social-first role for someone who can spot trends in real time, write strong hooks and captions, understand performance data, and move quickly from idea to execution.

What You’ll Do

Bring a social-first mindset.
Stay deeply engaged with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X, identifying emerging trends, formats, viral moments, and platform behaviors that can translate into brand-relevant opportunities for VeeFriends.

Write strong hooks and captions.
Create compelling on-screen hooks, captions, and social copy that capture attention quickly and drive engagement. You understand what makes people stop scrolling, including curiosity gaps, strong openings, pacing, and tone.

Manage the community on offense and defense.
Proactively engage with creators, brands, fan pages, collectors, and relevant communities through comments, replies, and timely participation in larger conversations. You will also manage comments, DMs, and community responses on VeeFriends-owned content in a timely, thoughtful, and brand-consistent way.

Support content performance and optimization.
Track and interpret content performance, including views, engagement, retention, and community response. Use those insights to help improve future posts, hooks, captions, and engagement strategies.

Stay culturally and platform-aware.
Maintain a strong understanding of internet culture and adjacent communities, including collectibles, trading cards, sports, pop culture, entertainment, and creator-led ecosystems. You know how to translate cultural moments into smart, relevant engagement opportunities.

Move quickly and execute.
Operate comfortably in a fast-paced, real-time environment. You can react quickly to trends, contribute ideas, and help execute same-day opportunities when needed without losing quality or taste.

Qualifications

  • 1–3 years of experience in social media, community management, content, or a related role.
  • A social-native mindset with a strong understanding of how people engage across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X.
  • Excellent writing instincts, especially for short-form hooks, captions, replies, and platform-native copy.
  • Strong desire to create a positive and engaging community/member experience.
  • High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and patience when interacting with community members.
  • Comfortable moving quickly, testing ideas, and adapting based on what performs.
  • A proactive, hands-on, “hustler” mentality.

Big Plus If You

  • Actively collect or follow trading cards.
  • Understand pull culture, breaks, and collector hype cycles.
  • Have a strong sense of taste and know how to move fast without making the brand feel forced or off-tone.

Residency Details

This is an initial 3-month Residency role based at the VeeFriends Hudson Yards office. The Residency is designed as a short-term opportunity to contribute meaningfully, learn quickly, and make an immediate impact within the VeeFriends team.

Compensation

The pay range for this role is:

$66,300 – $73,000
VeeFriends Hudson Yards Office


About VeeFriends
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VeeFriends
Social Commerce

VeeFriends is a modern entertainment and consumer-products company built on 283 original characters — every one imagined, created, and hand-drawn by Gary Vaynerchuk. What started as a collection of characters representing traits worth admiring has grown into a vertically integrated brand spanning collectibles, live commerce, publishing, animation, and live experiences — all built around a movement of kindness, positivity, and community. What we build: • Collectibles — physical trading cards with Topps (Topps Chrome VeeFriends) and Fanatics Collectibles / zerocool, plus toys, plush, apparel, and digital collectibles. • Live & social commerce — a full live-selling studio in Long Island City breaking cards and launching products across Whatnot, TikTok Shop, eBay Live, and Fanatics Live. • Story & IP — VeeFriends Comics, animation, and Gary Vaynerchuk's books. • Experiences — VeeCon, our flagship community conference. We move fast, we build in public, and we put community first. If you want to help scale a character universe into one of the most exciting brands in collecting, come build with us.

Location
New York, NY
Type
Social Commerce
Job Details
Type
Contract
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$66k – $73k
Posted
Jul 30, 2026
Deadline
Sep 28, 2026