Head of Community

About Alpaca Health Alpaca Health enables clinicians to become entrepreneurs, starting in autism care. We help clinicians launch and scale their own clinics by providing AI‑powered software, payer contracting, and full back‑office infrastructure. Our goal is to shift power in healthcare away from large consolidated entities and back to clinicians. Role: Head of Community Full‑time, based in NYC (remote candidates acceptable). 25‑75% travel to community events. The role sits at the intersection of community, marketing, partnerships, and operations and is responsible for creating a local presence in core markets, fostering provider communities, and developing partnerships that drive awareness, referrals, and trust. What You’ll Do Plan and execute local family‑focused events across core markets. Build relationships with community organizations, schools, pediatricians, nonprofits, and autism‑related groups. Represent Alpaca at resource fairs, community events, and local gatherings. Develop repeatable playbooks for launching and growing local community presence in new markets. Measure and improve event attendance, engagement, and referral outcomes. Organize provider networking events, happy hours, and local meetups. Coordinate Alpaca's presence at industry conferences and professional events. Build ongoing engagement programs for BCBAs, RBTs, and practice owners. Create systems for gathering provider feedback and strengthening provider retention. Foster a strong sense of belonging among providers. Build and manage affiliate partnerships with organizations that serve families and providers. Identify and cultivate relationships with influencers, content creators, and community advocates. Develop co‑marketing opportunities that expand Alpaca's reach and credibility. Track partnership performance and continuously improve ROI across channels. Create scalable systems for event planning, sponsorships, partnerships, and community engagement. Manage event budgets, logistics, vendors, and timelines. Use AI and automation to increase efficiency across community operations. Build dashboards and reporting to measure community growth, engagement, referrals, and partner performance. Success in 6 months looks like A thriving calendar of recurring family and provider events. Strong relationships with local community organizations and referral partners. A growing network of affiliate and influencer partnerships generating measurable referrals. High provider engagement and participation across Alpaca‑hosted communities. Repeatable systems to launch community programs in new markets quickly and efficiently. Who You Are Extremely ambitious and eager to build something meaningful at high velocity. Comfortable working harder and moving faster than most people. AI‑native; use tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or similar to leverage work. Thrives in environments with little structure and high accountability. System thinker who turns chaos into repeatable processes. Can manage a large volume of parallel priorities without dropping details. Energized by meeting people and building authentic relationships. Comfortable planning 100‑person events, attending conferences, or grabbing coffee with local partners. Exceptional communication skills and professional representation. Willing to travel frequently. Experience enabling community members to host their own events. Deep care for supporting clinicians, families, and locally owned healthcare businesses. Bonus: Experience in community building, events, partnerships, healthcare, autism services, or education. Why Join Direct exposure to company‑building at an early stage. Real ownership of critical initiatives from day one. Opportunity to materially impact families and clinicians. Fast learning curve that few roles can match. Strong compensation package. Benefits Competitive salary: $120K - $170K Meaningful equity Health benefits Flexible PTO Dinner when working late #J-18808-Ljbffr Alpaca Health