Growth Marketing & Community Architect

Sandbar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Unlimited PTO and sick time

Early stage equity

Job summary

A cutting-edge technology firm in New York City is searching for a Marketing and Community Manager to lead their marketing initiatives. This position encompasses community management, email nurturing, and synthesizing customer insights to deepen relationships. Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years experience in community or lifecycle marketing within tech. Offering competitive pay between $90K - $115K, health benefits, and equity options. Join us and help shape user engagement at a dynamic startup.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in community, lifecycle marketing, or CRM roles at high-growth tech companies.
• Hands-on experience building community and nurture systems.
• Strong collaborative skills and writing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Own email nurture and lifecycle journeys for customers.
• Manage community infrastructure and social media engagement.
• Synthesize community feedback into actionable insights.

Skills

Community management

Lifecycle marketing

CRM tools

Content creation

Data analysis

Collaboration

Strong writing skills

Tools

Discord

LinkedIn

Email tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

Join us in creating a new interface for self augmentation.

About The Role

We're looking for someone to own the engine of our marketing—from nurturing our early community to building systems that turn engagement into insights. You'll be the connective tissue between our customers and our product, ensuring every touchpoint deepens the relationship and surfaces learnings.

This isn't a traditional community manager role. It's part CRM strategist, part community builder, part insights synthesizer. You'll build the infrastructure that makes word-of-mouth happen and turns our most engaged customers into advocates.

Responsibilities

Nurture, Audience & CRM

• Own email nurture and lifecycle journeys, designing sequences that guide people from waitlist → pre-order → engaged advocate
• Build and grow owned audiences through content, partnering with brand leads to distribute stories and product thinking across email, site and LinkedIn
• Track audience engagement and intent signals, using CRM and content performance to identify high-value moments, engaged followers, and potential advocates
• Build CRM workflows that track customer journeys and surface high-intent moments
  
  

Community & Engagement

• Stand up and manage our community infrastructure
• Own social media engagement
• Develop programs that give early customers meaningful ways to participate (beta testing, feedback sessions, referrals)
• Manage social scheduling and posting in coordination with content strategy
  
  

Insights, Analytics & Feedback Loop

• Synthesize community feedback, comments, and engagement patterns into actionable insights
• Build and maintain marketing analytics dashboards; report on channel performance, engagement metrics, and conversion trends
• Monitor the competitive and cultural landscape
• Surface trends, sentiment shifts, and feature requests to product and leadership
• Identify customer stories, angles, and use cases that inform marketing and content
  
  

Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in community, lifecycle marketing, or CRM roles at high-growth technology companies
• Hands-on experience building community and nurture systems through platforms like Discord, social comment sections, platforms like LinkedIn, email/CRM tools, and analytics platforms
• Systems executor mindset: you build repeatable processes that create operational velocity
• Insights-aware: you notice patterns in engagement, comments, and cultural shifts, and know how to act on them
• Strong collaborative skills: This role will work closely with brand/strategy leadership and content production partners
• Strong writing skills: you can represent the brand in customer-facing communications
• Comfortable with ambiguity and moving fast at an early-stage company
• Experience building from the ground up—you've started systems, not just maintained them
• Experience at a hardware company or technology start up is preferred, experience with consumer brands is a plus
• Background in user research or product feedback synthesis is a plus
  
  

FTE Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Early stage equity
  
  

Compensation Range: $90K - $115K