Responsibilities

• Identify high-quality restaurants, cafés, bars, local attractions, lifestyle venues, and other local businesses across the SF Bay Area.
• Conduct outreach to business owners, operators, managers, and local decision-makers to introduce Wanderboat and explore collaboration opportunities.
• Maintain partner lists, outreach records, follow-up notes, and partnership status updates.
• Assist with co-marketing opportunities such as restaurant features, local guides, check-in campaigns, tasting experiences, special offers, neighborhood lists, and event collaborations.
• Help local partners understand how Wanderboat can support visibility, discovery, customer engagement, and brand exposure.
• Coordinate with internal product, content, growth, and marketing teams to help turn partner opportunities into user-facing experiences.
• Support local activation campaigns across the SF Bay Area, including dining experiences, restaurant check-ins, neighborhood crawls, tasting events, creator meetups, and local discovery activities.
• Coordinate event details such as partner communication, scheduling, logistics, content capture, and post-activity follow-up.
• Stay connected to local food scenes, lifestyle trends, neighborhood culture, and emerging city communities.
• Identify local tastemakers, foodies, creators, community organizers, and city explorers who can help amplify Wanderboat’s local presence.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in local partnerships, business development, merchant partnerships, account management, field marketing, community activation, or local growth.
• Experience working with restaurants, local businesses, merchants, venues, creators, or community-based partners.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with comfort talking directly to business owners, operators, and local decision-makers.
• Experience supporting local events, offline activations, co-marketing campaigns, merchant campaigns, or community-based growth initiatives.
• Strong execution and organizational skills, with the ability to manage outreach lists, follow-ups, calendars, and activity summaries.
• Comfortable being field-facing and spending time in the local market across the SF Bay Area.
• Strong interest in food, restaurants, local discovery, travel, lifestyle experiences, city exploration, and consumer products.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving early-stage startup environment.

Preferred

• Experience at or working with platforms such as Uber Eats, DoorDash, Yelp, OpenTable, Resy, Tock, Toast, Square, Tripadvisor, Google Maps, or other local commerce / local discovery platforms.
• Existing relationships with restaurants, cafés, bars, local venues, creators, food communities, neighborhood organizations, or lifestyle businesses in the SF Bay Area.
• Experience supporting merchant partnership programs, local business campaigns, creator collaborations, or UGC-driven campaigns.
• Experience using CRM, pipeline management, or partner tracking tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Airtable, Notion, or Google Sheets.
• Familiarity with local food trends, dining culture, neighborhood discovery, and consumer behavior in the Bay Area.