[Hiring] Director, Community Systems @Praxis

Role Description

This role reports to the Partner, Capital at Praxis. As the Director, Community Systems, you will build and lead the system that cultivates a community of connected relationships eager to build ventures and projects together. The Director is an architect and operator of systems rooted in the conviction that compounding impact over time is made possible by the curation of a dense network of founders, funders, creatives, thinkers, and builders. The Director owns two connected systems: how the community is recruited, formed, and activated, and how the needs of select ventures and projects are surfaced, matched, and fulfilled through the community’s abundance of expertise, capacity for mentorship, introductions to talent, and financial capital. They also equip members of the Praxis team to do the deeply personal work inside those systems.

The value of this role is that the loop runs as one system with one accountable lead, rather than two functions passing information across a gap.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Community Cultivation (~50%)
  • Helps lead and design the architecture and operation of how Praxis recruits and cultivates the community across regions.
  • Build and maintain the community management model, organizing the community by roles, interests, engagements, etc.
  • Own the data layer that makes the community understandable: key data inputs and community management processes.
  • Design and run the operating rhythms: community portfolio sizing and assignment, touchpoint standards, and pipeline directory.
  • Equip and coach team members who are the frontline of the community.
  • Work with the Systems Lead to develop AI agents and AI-enabled workflows.
  • Protect the Community Principles — people over projects, givers before takers.
• Community-Driven Venture and Project Support (~50%)
  • Working with the Accelerator and Studio teams, surface the needs of select ventures and projects.
  • Build and run the intake by which needs are surfaced.
  • Maintain the criteria for which ventures and projects warrant community activation.
  • Qualify each need into a specific, well-formed invitation.
  • Design and execute the strategy by which needs are matched against the community's capacity.
  • Close the loop: track fulfillment and report back to ventures and community members.
  • Aggregate patterns — recurring gaps in expertise, capital, or geography.
  • Treat each fulfilled outcome as the beginning of the next.

Qualifications

• An ecology/systems orientation: you see a community, a pipeline, or a portfolio as a system that can be designed and cultivated.
• Fluency with data and tooling: comfort working in CRM schemas and workflows.
• Operating experience in a relationship-driven environment (community, ecosystem, development, partnerships, or portfolio operations).
• The ability to lead and coach a team of relationship-oriented people.
• Strategic judgment on both sides of the role.
• Relational credibility sufficient to work well with funders, founders, and mentors.

Requirements

• Strong preference for New York City-based candidates; remote role considered for outstanding candidates.
• Travel: Team meetings (typically held at Praxis HQ in New York City), annual Praxis Summit, and additional travel for Regional Gatherings, program events, and other community gatherings; 30-40 days annually.
• Reports To: Partner, Capital.

Benefits

• Compensation Package: $125K - $155k based on experience and location.
• Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families.
• 5% matching 401k.
• Flexible vacation policy.

Cultural Alignment

Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate alignment with the above, as well as our mission to awaken imagination for redemptive action.

We're seeking a leader who combines operational excellence with a spirit of humility and service, contributing to our vision of building an organization that embodies redemptive principles in all aspects of its work and culture.