Community Partnerships Marketing Manager IV

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc.; Redmond (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. in Redmond, WA seeks a Community Partnerships Marketing Manager IV to lead how external partners are showcased, from onboarding to public launches.

You’ll balance storytelling with program management and build relationships with academic labs, corporate partners and nonprofits. The role emphasizes AI tooling, event moments, case studies and newsletters, requiring 8+ years in marketing or partnerships and a track record of cross-functional launches.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in marketing, communications or partnerships.
• Experience launching external-facing content end to end with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience working with academic, nonprofit, or research institutions.
• Strong writing—make technical results legible to a general audience.
• Experience managing cross-functional launches on a fixed date.
• Bachelor's Degree, BA, BS.

Responsibilities

• Own the marketing plan for Project Aria's community and research partnerships, from partner onboarding through public launch - with an emphasis on AI tooling and automation.
• Build case studies, blog posts, video narratives, and event moments with partners, written with them rather than about them.
• Run launch workbacks across research, legal, comms, design, and video: content lock, approvals, publish, amplify.
• Manage the Project Aria partner community - newsletters, conference presence, summits - and keep partners informed between launches.
• Partner with academic and nonprofit organizations to identify which collaborations are ready to tell publicly, and which need more time.
• Represent partner needs back into the program: what researchers actually want from the hardware, the docs, and the support model.
• Measure what's working. Report on reach, partner satisfaction, applicant quality, and inbound research interest.
• Domestic and International Travel Required

Skills

Marketing

Communications

Partnerships

Content creation

Cross-functional launches

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Title: Community Partnerships Marketing Manager IV

Location: Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

Duration: 12 Months ( Extension up to 2.5 years total, potential FTE conversion)

Description

• Project puts research glasses in the hands of external partners - academic labs, corporate partners, and accessibility non-profits - to accelerate research outcomes the client can't do alone. This role owns how those collaborations show up in the world: the stories, the launches, and the relationships that keep partners engaged after the hardware ships.


• You will sit between the research teams who run the partnerships and the marketing and comms functions who take them public. The work is part storytelling, part program management, and part relationship building with people who are experts in their own right.

Responsibilities

• Own the marketing plan for Project Aria's community and research partnerships, from partner onboarding through public launch - with an emphasis on AI tooling and automation,


• Build case studies, blog posts, video narratives, and event moments with partners, written with them rather than about them.


• Run launch workbacks across research, legal, comms, design, and video: content lock, approvals, publish, amplify.


• Manage the Project Aria partner community - newsletters, conference presence, summits - and keep partners informed between launches.


• Partner with academic and nonprofit organizations to identify which collaborations are ready to tell publicly, and which need more time.


• Represent partner needs back into the program: what researchers actually want from the hardware, the docs, and the support model.


• Measure what's working. Report on reach, partner satisfaction, applicant quality, and inbound research interest.


• Domestic and International Travel Required

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years in marketing, communications, or partnerships, with at least 3 in a partner-facing or community-facing role.


• Track record launching external-facing content (case studies, blogs, video) end to end with multiple stakeholders.


• Experience working with academic, nonprofit, or research institutions.


• Strong writing. You can take a technical research result and make it legible to a general audience.


• Experience managing cross-functional launches on a fixed date.


• Bachelors Degree, BA, BS

Preferred qualifications

• Background in AR/VR, wearables, computer vision, or machine perception.


• Events Experience


• Experience with accessibility-focused product work or disability community partnerships.


• Familiarity with academic research cycles, conference calendars, and university partnership agreements.


• Experience building a community program from scratch.


• Masters Degree