--- title: 'Community and Partnerships Manager at Overtone' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/community-and-partnerships-manager-overtone-new-york-tfgz1njvefmn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Community and Partnerships Manager at Overtone - **Company:** Overtone - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/overtone/393fc70b-d98f-4840-abbd-0b8ba7208c90 ## Job description ## Your Role This role is responsible for building Overtone’s founding community in New York City. You will build relationships and leverage networks and communities; responding to early demand by building a waitlist of sought-after singles excited about a better way to date. New York comes first, but you'll build a playbook we can repeat city-by-city as we grow. This role reports to our Head of Communications. ## What You'll Do - Design and run a scouting program; recruiting and supporting a small team of scouts to identify the people who belong in Overtone’s early community. - Build relationships with communities, clubs, hosts, and venues that connect the people we’re looking for, and develop partnerships and shared events to drive early growth. - Set the bar for the intentional daters we want to bring in, and do the personal, direct outreach it takes to build a community, with a focus on building a diverse pool of exceptional people. - Partner with our Membership Manager to ensure all new members have a seamless, premium experience and feel supported as they try something new. ## Who You Are - 5+ years growing a consumer, membership, hospitality or lifestyle brand through community, partnerships and word of mouth. - An established network in New York across worlds like founders and operators, arts and design, food, music, members' clubs and social scenes, or a proven ability to get inside them fast. - Experience building referral, ambassador, scout or partnership programs from day one and running them well. - The instincts and vibe of a great host: warmth, respectful, discretion, and the ability to curate a group of good, kind, interesting people. You’re known among your friends as a connector, and maybe even a matchmaker. - Comfort and experience in an early-stage startup environment. - A hands-on executor who can build a strategy but will also hit the pavement and knock on doors to make things happen. - Aligned to our core values of connection, simplicity, and intentionality. ## Compensation & Benefits Salary of $140k to $190k. This position will receive meaningful stock options with considerable upside potential. We provide standard benefits such as health insurance, dental insurance, etc. Our Core Qualities We look for these qualities in everyone we hire at Overtone. Curiosity: You seek to understand before you decide. You ask thoughtful questions, test assumptions, and stay open to changing your mind as new information emerges. Craft: You care deeply about quality and coherence. You simplify complexity, exercise good judgment, and take pride in work that feels intentional, thoughtful, and well-made. Collaboration: You engage with others honestly and generatively. You challenge ideas with respect, listen deeply, and help synthesize perspectives into clearer, better outcomes. Care: You take responsibility for people and outcomes. You act with integrity, follow through on commitments, and protect trust—with users, teammates, and the work itself. ## About Overtone Overtone is a modern matchmaking company, from the creator of Hinge. We’re building a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, grounded in relationship science. There’s no profiles or swiping. We get to know people in their own voice, then make thoughtful introductions, one at a time, to people we think are worth meeting. The service is in beta-testing and not yet open to the public. We’re building a small team of people passionate about relationships and human connection, to work together in person in our NYC office (5 days a week in Flatiron). ## About Overtone ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: A new type of dating service from the creator of Hinge that combines cutting-edge AI with human-centered design to help people form real, lasting relationships. - **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage, independent spin-out from Hinge) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2025 (publicly announced February 2026) - **Founders**: Justin McLeod ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Online dating / Consumer social technology / Conversational AI - **Target customers**: B2C – adults seeking meaningful connections in the dating market - **Mission or purpose**: To re-imagine how connection begins by creating something personal, supportive, and aligned with how people actually want to experience dating today. ## Products & Services - **[Overtone]**: A data-driven, AI-powered dating service that uses conversational intelligence, personalized matchmaking, and curated introductions to help users find people on their wavelength. The product is not yet publicly launched (waitlist is open). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (pre-revenue, waitlist stage) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available (independent organization; the founder has self-funded or received undisclosed backing) - **Growth Signals**: Founded by Justin McLeod, who built Hinge from a startup to a $600M+ acquisition by Match Group. The team is actively hiring founding engineers (iOS, Backend, Applied AI/ML), indicating strong product-building momentum. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founder pedigree**: Justin McLeod’s track record at Hinge (successful reboot, scale, and exit) gives deep domain insight and credibility. - **AI-first architecture**: The service is built from the ground up with LLMs, personalization, and ethical AI, aiming to outperform traditional swipe-based models. - **Focus on depth over volume**: Positions itself as a “new kind of dating service” that prioritizes quality of connection over quantity of matches. ## Strategic Focus - Design and deploy AI systems for reliable, auditable, and personalized matchmaking. - Build a small, high-ownership team in NYC working in person. - Co-create the product with early users/community before public launch. - Explore the intersection of machine learning, conversational AI, and human relationships. ## Why Work Here - **Founding team impact**: Early engineers will own critical infrastructure and shape the product from day one. - **Compensation**: Competitive salary range (e.g., $200k–$300k for Applied AI/ML Engineer) plus meaningful stock options. - **Work environment**: In-office/hybrid in New York City (most roles require in-office presence); small, collaborative, and mission-driven culture. - **Culture values**: Care, collaboration, curiosity, and craft – with an emphasis on integrity, humility, and quality. - **Benefits**: Standard health/dental insurance, stock options, and the chance to reinvent a category. ## Sources 1. [overto.ne](https://overto.ne/) 2. [overto.ne/careers](https://overto.ne/careers) 3. [overto.ne/intro](https://overto.ne/intro) (Justin McLeod’s announcement) 4. [Built In – Overtone company profile](https://builtin.com/company/overtone) 5. [Built In – Applied AI/ML Engineer job posting](https://builtin.com/job/applied-ai-ml-engineer/9855293) ## Other roles at Overtone - [Events & Content Producer](https://feeny.ai/job/events-content-producer-overtone-new-york-hrw4d7p6y5b6) — New York, NY - [Applied AI/ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/applied-ai-ml-engineer-overtone-new-york-s1cphj0dayh6) — New York, NY