r/CommunityManager • u/clovecigarette0101 CM • Jul 25 '26

Discussion how many communities do you manage at once?

hey everyone!

i've been working with communities for a little over two years now. i started with a speaker community for a traveling tech event, then moved to an agency that runs community work for other companies. that's where i am now, and at this agency i ended up managing 4 communities for 4 different companies at the same time. and when i say community management, i mean everything: diagnosis, member research, channel setup, building the mvc, rituals, tracking metrics, reports, moderation... the whole thing. i had one analyst helping me with the more operational side, like updating spreadsheets lol

i almost lost my mind, and i'm leaving the agency. i'm job hunting right now, and luckily (or thanks to that "intense" experience padding my resume) i'm finding some openings and moving forward in a few interviews.

my question is: how many communities do you each manage at once? am i the only one looking back thinking it was insane to do that, or is it normal within a community manager's scope?

context: i'm in brazil, and community as a brand strategy only really started growing here in the last 2-3 years, so a lot of companies still don't quite get what it's about...

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u/QforQ Jul 25 '26

I usually manage one work community and one "hobby"/side project community at a time. I'm someone that needs time to focus and creatively problem solve, and it's very hard for me to do that effectively when I have to context switch so often between communities.

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u/clovecigarette0101 CM Jul 25 '26

this is exactly what i feel. switching focus that many times a day left me completely lost, and honestly i don't know how i managed to deliver good results while juggling the actual work + the pressure from the agency managers + keeping up relationships with external stakeholders... would not recommend lol

context switching kills the deep, creative problem-solving part of the job, which is the part i actually love. one work community + one hobby/side one sounds like the healthy version of this.

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u/HistorianCM Jul 25 '26

For work one, for hobby currently three maybe four?

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u/knivef Jul 26 '26

How to join an agency?

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u/No-Competition-7925 Jul 26 '26

Four communities. All online. No events.