ecoāshrām community manager (HR)

Western Ghats · North of Goa

about build3

We’re a mission-driven startup studio (read more here) that builds impact-oriented startups to better the mind, body, and the earth. We work with founders as their institutional co-founder until their venture becomes a self-sufficient organization ready to scale.

We are not just advisors, mentors, investors, incubators, or accelerators—we bring all of these roles together! We are always co-building with founders, creatively and conscientiously, through the power of communities.

The Startup Eco Ashram is build3’s nature-first living ecosystem in the Western Ghats. It brings together founders, creators, builders, volunteers, residents, and nature lovers to live, work, learn, and contribute as a community.

your mission, should you choose to accept

As build3’s Eco Ashram Community Manager (HR), your mission will be to build a welcoming, engaging, and well-organized community while developing the people systems and culture that help our team and founders thrive.

You will own both the community experience and the coordination behind it—from activities, gatherings, and visitor stays to hiring, onboarding, performance, talent development, compliance, and HR operations. Working closely with employees, leadership, founders, volunteers, and residents, you will combine thoughtful people partnership with hands-on execution.

This can be achieved through -

Designing and maintaining a thoughtful weekly and monthly calendar of community activities that encourage connection, learning, wellbeing, and contribution, including community circles, shared meals, farm experiences, nature walks, skill-sharing sessions, and celebrations.
Managing activities from idea to execution, including gathering suggestions, confirming facilitators, arranging spaces and materials, coordinating volunteers and vendors, managing budgets, and communicating with participants.
Coordinating the complete visitor journey, including pre-arrival communication, accommodation allocation, welcoming and orientation, check-out, and feedback.
Helping visitors and residents understand the Eco Ashram’s values, routines, shared responsibilities, and ways of participating, while keeping everyone informed through calendars, announcements, welcome material, and community communication channels.
Building repeatable systems, standard operating procedures, checklists, and signage for community activities and stay-related processes.
Being an approachable community presence, encouraging participation, responding constructively to interpersonal challenges, and maintaining clear boundaries and confidentiality.
Supporting recruitment and onboarding by defining hiring needs, participating in interviews, evaluating candidate assignments, issuing offer letters, and maintaining complete employee documentation.
Supporting startup founders from our community with end-to-end hiring for critical roles, including interns, Founder’s Office team members, and co-founders.
Using AI-based recruitment and interviewing tools thoughtfully to improve the speed and quality of sourcing, screening, and shortlisting while ensuring that human judgement remains central to hiring decisions.
Driving performance and talent-management processes, including goal setting, monthly, mid-year, and annual reviews, mutual-feedback sessions, probation reviews, career-development conversations, and succession planning.
Leading the planning and coordination of quarterly strategy meets, including agendas, documentation, action items, and follow-through.

what you need to bring to the table

(skills, experience, and character traits)

Experience in HR, people operations, or a generalist role, with an understanding of recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee documentation, and compliance.
Experience in community management, hospitality, events, retreats, co-living, campus operations, or a similar people-facing environment.
Experience using AI-based recruitment tools for candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and shortlisting.
A warm, clear, and confident communication style, along with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
The judgement and sensitivity to act as a trusted partner to employees, leaders, founders, visitors, and residents.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, activities, visitors, and operational details in a fast-moving environment.
The ability to make people feel welcome, facilitate groups, encourage participation, and communicate expectations clearly.
A proactive, people-focused approach, strong follow-through, and the willingness to get your hands dirty and execute.
The ability to bring structure to chaos, build processes from scratch, and improve them as the organization and community grow.
Respect for personal information and the ability to handle employee, visitor, and resident details responsibly.
Flexibility to support occasional evening, weekend, or holiday activities when required by the community calendar.
A genuine interest in conscious living, sustainability, and building authentic human connections.
A willingness to live and work on-site and participate actively in Eco Ashram community life.
Experience working with startups, founders, or early-stage teams would be a plus.

At build3, we have learned that for this to be a meaningful mutual experience, it needs to be a minimum of six months and on-site at the Eco Ashram. Please keep this in mind when applying.

what you can expect from us.

build3 will provide a basic monthly stipend based on experience, ranging from INR 25,000 for candidates with up to two years of experience to a maximum of INR 50,000 for candidates with five or more years of experience.
Access to our shared dorm-style accommodation at no additional cost, if you are comfortable with shared living spaces.
A collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on building impactful startups and a thoughtful, inclusive living ecosystem.
Ownership of the people systems and experiences that shape everyday team and community life.
The freedom to experiment with new activities, formats, processes, and community traditions.

why should you consider us

A steep learning curve and practical experience across HR, community building, hospitality, program design, operations, and startup building.
The opportunity to play a central role in shaping the culture of a growing intentional community.
The chance to work closely with experienced entrepreneurs, founders, creators, facilitators, volunteers, and enthusiastic community members.
A lot of freedom, ownership, and responsibility.
A nature-first environment where community, wellbeing, and meaningful work come together.
The opportunity to turn creative ideas into memorable experiences and dependable people and community systems.
The chance to see the direct impact of your work in how welcomed, connected, and supported people feel.
We compensate frugally at first, but we will share generously the value we create together.

Here are our values!

Our team and community are waiting eagerly for you to apply!

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about build3

your mission, should you choose to accept

This can be achieved through -

Designing and maintaining a thoughtful weekly and monthly calendar of community activities that encourage connection, learning, wellbeing, and contribution, including community circles, shared meals, farm experiences, nature walks, skill-sharing sessions, and celebrations.

Managing activities from idea to execution, including gathering suggestions, confirming facilitators, arranging spaces and materials, coordinating volunteers and vendors, managing budgets, and communicating with participants.

Coordinating the complete visitor journey, including pre-arrival communication, accommodation allocation, welcoming and orientation, check-out, and feedback.

Helping visitors and residents understand the Eco Ashram’s values, routines, shared responsibilities, and ways of participating, while keeping everyone informed through calendars, announcements, welcome material, and community communication channels.

Building repeatable systems, standard operating procedures, checklists, and signage for community activities and stay-related processes.

Being an approachable community presence, encouraging participation, responding constructively to interpersonal challenges, and maintaining clear boundaries and confidentiality.

Supporting recruitment and onboarding by defining hiring needs, participating in interviews, evaluating candidate assignments, issuing offer letters, and maintaining complete employee documentation.

Supporting startup founders from our community with end-to-end hiring for critical roles, including interns, Founder’s Office team members, and co-founders.

Using AI-based recruitment and interviewing tools thoughtfully to improve the speed and quality of sourcing, screening, and shortlisting while ensuring that human judgement remains central to hiring decisions.

Driving performance and talent-management processes, including goal setting, monthly, mid-year, and annual reviews, mutual-feedback sessions, probation reviews, career-development conversations, and succession planning.

Leading the planning and coordination of quarterly strategy meets, including agendas, documentation, action items, and follow-through.

what you need to bring to the table

(skills, experience, and character traits)

Experience in HR, people operations, or a generalist role, with an understanding of recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee documentation, and compliance.

Experience in community management, hospitality, events, retreats, co-living, campus operations, or a similar people-facing environment.

Experience using AI-based recruitment tools for candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and shortlisting.

A warm, clear, and confident communication style, along with strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

The judgement and sensitivity to act as a trusted partner to employees, leaders, founders, visitors, and residents.

Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, activities, visitors, and operational details in a fast-moving environment.

The ability to make people feel welcome, facilitate groups, encourage participation, and communicate expectations clearly.

A proactive, people-focused approach, strong follow-through, and the willingness to get your hands dirty and execute.

The ability to bring structure to chaos, build processes from scratch, and improve them as the organization and community grow.

Respect for personal information and the ability to handle employee, visitor, and resident details responsibly.

Flexibility to support occasional evening, weekend, or holiday activities when required by the community calendar.

A genuine interest in conscious living, sustainability, and building authentic human connections.

A willingness to live and work on-site and participate actively in Eco Ashram community life.

Experience working with startups, founders, or early-stage teams would be a plus.

At build3, we have learned that for this to be a meaningful mutual experience, it needs to be a minimum of six months and on-site at the Eco Ashram. Please keep this in mind when applying.

what you can expect from us.

build3 will provide a basic monthly stipend based on experience, ranging from INR 25,000 for candidates with up to two years of experience to a maximum of INR 50,000 for candidates with five or more years of experience.

Access to our shared dorm-style accommodation at no additional cost, if you are comfortable with shared living spaces.

A collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on building impactful startups and a thoughtful, inclusive living ecosystem.

Ownership of the people systems and experiences that shape everyday team and community life.

The freedom to experiment with new activities, formats, processes, and community traditions.

why should you consider us

A steep learning curve and practical experience across HR, community building, hospitality, program design, operations, and startup building.

The opportunity to play a central role in shaping the culture of a growing intentional community.

The chance to work closely with experienced entrepreneurs, founders, creators, facilitators, volunteers, and enthusiastic community members.

A lot of freedom, ownership, and responsibility.

A nature-first environment where community, wellbeing, and meaningful work come together.

The opportunity to turn creative ideas into memorable experiences and dependable people and community systems.

The chance to see the direct impact of your work in how welcomed, connected, and supported people feel.

We compensate frugally at first, but we will share generously the value we create together.

Our team and community are waiting eagerly for you to apply!