Community Manager (San Francisco)

San Francisco Office full timeOn Site

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$150k–$180k

H1B: no

Granola The Community Manager at Granola owns event ideation, execution, and community initiatives to build a leading AI-native tech community in San Francisco. The role involves managing logistics, marketing, and relationships with speakers, partners, and local tech stakeholders.

Responsibilities

You’ll own generating event ideas and community initiatives and the execution those ideas:
Come up with event and community ideas, and think hard about what makes an event special
Curate the guest list so a great group of people show up
Own all comms with speakers, partners and guests
Run logistics like a station master, so everything leaves on time
Own the marketing for every event, from the copy to the socials, so the room is full
Work closely with our brand and events teams in London, who hold the bar on how Granola shows up
Pitch in on big product launches when we need all hands
Build relationships with the top accelerators and VCs in the Bay (e.g. YC, Neo, HF0, SPC). Be there when new cohorts land, so Granola is the first tool founders reach for on day one
How you’ll know it’s working
Within 6 months, people in SF say Granola puts on some of the best tech events in the city
Your events fill up are oversubscribed with the relevant folks for each event

Qualification

5+ years in community and eventsA strong network in Bay Area techAs a personWork autonomouslySweat the detailsGet startups and techHave great judgmentRoll up your sleevesLove being around people

Required

5+ years in community and events, venture, startup ecosystems or partnerships
A track record of running great events for a tech audience consistently
Comfortable talking to execs and founders

Preferred

A strong network in Bay Area tech, with relationships across founders, accelerators or VCs
As a person, you
Work autonomously. You set direction together with Shre and the team, then run with it. Take feedback well - you get curious, adjust quickly, and show the change in your next piece of work
Sweat the details. For every event, you think about the one thing that will make people remember it and feel special. You treat the attendee experience like a user flow: from the moment someone arrives outside our office, to checking in, to knowing where the bathroom is before they have to ask
Get startups and tech. You’re always reading, listening and learning about the fastest-growing startups, founders and operators, and you know what founders care about
Have great judgment. You come up with original ideas and have the instincts to know what’s right for Granola’s brand. Our bar is high, and you’re always open to learning how to meet it
Roll up your sleeves. This is a founding community role. You’re as comfortable emailing a unicorn founder as you are Ubering to a restaurant yourself to pick up pizza boxes if DoorDash is horrendously late to make sure everyone’s fed. No task is beneath you
Love being around people. You get energy from meeting people, can work a crowd, and can say no politely but firmly