Community Growth & Local Engagement

Sunnyvale, CA (Unknown)

$80K/yr – $120K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale Wanderboat's local community growth across the SF Bay Area, including ambassador networks, onboarding, events, and feedback loops with product and growth teams.

Build and nurture highly engaged local communities and ambassadors
Lead ambassador programs, local activations, and onboarding playbooks
Gather user feedback to inform product and growth strategies

Job Description

Responsibilities

Build and grow Wanderboat’s early local user community across the SF Bay Area.
Identify and cultivate highly engaged users, early adopters, contributors, and local ambassadors.
Foster meaningful interactions around local discovery, food, travel, lifestyle, and city exploration.
Support ambassador and power-user programs that encourage long-term engagement, advocacy, and community participation.
Build strong relationships with highly engaged community members and local tastemakers.
Operate and improve online community spaces and engagement channels.
Design onboarding and engagement experiences for highly engaged users and contributors.
Create lightweight but high-quality community participation mechanisms.
Gather feedback, user sentiment, and product insights from active community members.
Support feedback loops between users, product, and growth teams.

Requirements

3+ years of experience in community growth, community operations, local engagement, ambassador programs, or consumer growth roles.
Experience building highly engaged user communities, ambassador networks, or power-user ecosystems.
Strong understanding of how local consumer products grow through community relationships and user participation.
Experience planning and operating online and offline community experiences.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to cultivate authentic user relationships.
Strong operational mindset with the ability to build repeatable community systems and playbooks.
Strong interest in local discovery, food, travel, lifestyle experiences, or social consumer products.
Comfortable working in fast-moving early-stage startup environments.

Preferred

Experience working on local discovery, consumer social, marketplace, or lifestyle products.
Experience building ambassador programs or local community ecosystems.
Familiarity with Discord, Geneva, Partiful, Luma, or other community/event tools
Experience driving UGC participation, local engagement, or community-led growth
Existing relationships with local communities, creators, tastemakers, or city-based organizations
Familiarity with AI-powered consumer products or recommendation/discovery experiences