Growth Marketing & Community Lead

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals so we can each think, act, and move more 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 self extension—a private voice ring and conversational interface. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.

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

Company-sponsored 401(k)

Unlimited PTO and sick time

Early stage equity