Community Lead, San Francisco

Pally; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pally is hiring a hands-on Community Lead in San Francisco to own the city’s community presence. You will plan and execute weekly events, from dinners to club nights, and lead a major monthly Pally gathering with brands and venues.

You’ll manage sponsorships end-to-end and handle all logistics while representing Pally to local founders, hosts, and partners. We value self-sufficiency, a track record of creating vibrant community spaces, and a passion for elevating Pally’s presence in SF.

Qualifications

• Experience building a community from scratch and sustaining it.
• Proven track record closing sponsorships with brands.
• Comfortable networking in unfamiliar rooms and making new connections.
• Self-sufficient with minimal direction and metric-driven reporting.
• Regular use of Pally and strong opinions on its product.
• Aiming for founding-team scope in SF.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run weekly events (dinners, clubs, breakfasts, etc.) to grow the SF community.
• Organize one large Pally event each month with a wide audience.
• Source and manage sponsors; own relationships end-to-end.
• Handle logistics: venues, catering, guest lists, door, AV, budgets.
• Be the face of Pally in San Francisco to founders, operators and hosts.
• Gather feedback from events and report back with numbers and insights.

Skills

Event planning

Sponsorship sales

Networking / relationship building

Independent work

Product familiarity with Pally

Founding-team scope

Job description

Hey, we're Haz and Wyatt, the founders of Pally.

Pally is a personal assistant that lives in your texts. You text it like a friend. It replies to the messages you've been avoiding, books the dinner, chases the invoice, and handles the hundred small things that pile up in a week.

We're a small team based in the Bay Area, and we're hiring people who will make Pally the #1 consumer agent in the world.

The role

You'll own Pally's community in San Francisco. There's no playbook and no manager looking over your shoulder. You get a budget, a Slack channel with us, and the whole city. Your job is to make San Francisco love Pally.

This is a hands-on role. You'll plan it, pitch it, run it, and be at the door. In practice that means:

• An event every week. Dinners, run clubs, founder breakfasts, quiz nights, whatever gets the right people in a room with Pally on their phones.
• One big Pally party every month. Hundreds of people, a venue people talk about, a night people post about.
• Sponsors. Pitch venues, brands, and partners to fund and co-host what you run, and own each relationship end to end.
• Logistics. Venues, catering, guest lists, door, AV, and budget, handled before anyone notices they needed handling.
• Being the face of Pally in San Francisco. Founders, operators, creators, and the people who host the good stuff in the city should know you by name.
• Feeding it back. Hear what people love and what annoys them, tell us directly, and we ship the fix.

We'll measure you on one thing: how many people in San Francisco use Pally every week, and how much they love it.

Profile

We don't care where you've worked. We're looking for someone who has built a community from nothing and kept it going.

• A record of running events people still talk about: a student club, a supper club, a community for your industry, a festival stage, a company's offsites. The scale matters less than the fact you did it yourself and people came back.
• Experience closing sponsors. You can email a brand's marketing lead on Monday and have a signed sponsorship by Friday.
• Comfortable walking into a room where you know nobody and leaving with ten new friends.
• Self-sufficient. Nobody will tell you what to do each day. You decide, do it, and report back with numbers.
• You use Pally every day and have opinions about it.
• You want founding-team scope. You'll set the bar for how Pally shows up in San Francisco.

Practical stuff

$80-120k base + equity. Full-time, in person in San Francisco, starting ASAP. Evenings and weekends are when the events happen, so your week will look different from a normal job.

San Francisco is home. You'll work alongside the team and bring us to every event.

We work exceptionally hard. If work isn't your primary focus, this isn't for you. However, we also give you full autonomy over your schedule. We don't care when you work hard, only that you do.

Thanks for reading,