About the Role
This is a hands-on Community Lead role at an early-stage ambient AI startup, reporting directly to the GM. You'll own the community end-to-end — from onboarding new users to turning power users into genuine evangelists — and serve as a critical bridge between the community and cross-functional product, R&D, and hardware teams.
What You'll Do
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Build and nurture an active community across Discord, X, Reddit, and other platforms where users naturally gather.
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Design and test concrete mechanics — recognition systems, referral programs, early access tiers — that convert power users into active advocates.
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Mobilize the community around high-impact moments such as product launches, user research initiatives, and marketing pushes.
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Gather and synthesize community feedback into actionable product signal for R&D and product teams.
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Plan and coordinate in-person events and activations that deepen community bonds.
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Collaborate across time zones with distributed hardware and supply-chain teams to keep community insights flowing into the roadmap.
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Define your own scope and make independent operational calls — there is no pre-built playbook.
What We're Looking For
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2+ years building and scaling an online community for a B2C or prosumer product into a measurable driver of engagement or retention.
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Proven track record designing and testing community mechanics that convert power users into advocates (not just hoping it happens organically).
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Experience mobilizing communities for specific campaigns and coordinating across Growth, Marketing, and Product teams.
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Hands-on platform management experience — Discord, Reddit, X/Twitter, or similar — including moderation, engagement strategy, and feedback collection.
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Comfortable operating independently, resolving community issues, and defining scope without pre-existing frameworks.
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Experience turning user feedback into actionable product insights and demonstrating community impact on retention or engagement metrics.
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Track record coordinating in-person community events or activations.
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Mandarin fluency or other multilingual capability is a strong plus given cross-timezone collaboration with international teams.
Location
Hybrid (3 days per week in office) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visa sponsorship is not available.
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