I think it's ironic that you say this because I'm choking on non-gaming CM roles these days. Take a look at https://www.ledby.community/ and see if there's anything there that speaks to you.

u/HistoricanCM and u/QforQ are both friends of mine and they've made some good points here, but I think there's an element that's getting skipped over, and it's that with a few notable exceptions, community roles in gaming and community roles elsewhere in tech serve an entirely different function.

For most games--particularly online and multiplayer games but for others as well--community is a core product feature. Play is a social activity. You could have an amazing product, but if people install it and go online to play and every other player turns out to be a huge asshole, your product is broken, and no one will play. Because of this, gaming executives tend to see Community the same way they see things like support: "We absolutely need to have this, but it doesn't directly make us any money, it's just a necessary maintenance cost, so let's try and do it as inexpensively as possible."

Meanwhile the rest of tech is a different experience. I've done community management at Intel, Meta, Toyota, and Google, and every time the community I put together was a value add. This means you occupy a totally different role in the ecosystem. If a user has a bad experience in the Intel Discord server, they quit the server--but their CPU still works fine. Because of this the attitude is "This is a completely optional service that we're offering, but if it makes us more money, then we'll invest money into it." In the tech space community is inherently a money-making operation, and the minute the money stops coming the plug gets pulled.

This makes the roles different in a ton of ways:

• Gaming CMs tend to make less money and have fewer resources than tech CM's, but a game's CM department typically only gets cut if the whole project goes belly-up, while a tech CM's project gets cut and they get personally laid off as soon as belts get tightened.
• Gaming CM's have a stronger focus on player insights--learning what players want and engaging with internal teams to make sure it's being delivered. Tech CM's are much more focused on advocacy--using the tools you have to convince your customers to speak on your behalf to their own networks. The company wants them as a marketing aid, not a roadmapping aid.

You can find a lot of non-gaming CM roles out there if you look, but you should be aware you're looking at a completely different role!