Community Marketing Manager

Community Marketing Manager (Research Glasses)
Location: Redmond, WA | Hybrid
Competitive Compensation: $70-80/Hr
Type: Full-Time Contract (W2) | 40 hours | M-F | no OT
Duration: Initial 12-month term with anticipated extension/FTE conversion
Target Start: November
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision | 401k | 15 days PTO | paid sick leave
Reason for opening: Replacement

Description: 

Project "" puts research glasses in the hands of external partners — academic labs, corporate partners, and accessibility non-profits — to accelerate research outcomes we 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.

Day-to-Day:

• Research program focused on research glasses - Gen 2, focused on egocentric data collection.
• Accelerate research in contextual AI
• Work with 400 labs, partner with PHD’s
• Accelerate work of external communities
• Liaison for the external community, and promoting internal products/data sets
• Understanding what is coming out of the ecosystem and how to promote to external universities
• Understands the marketing and community partnership side; scales marketing in these communities

Responsibilities:

• Own the marketing plan for the Project 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 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

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.
• Bachelor's degree, BA, BS
• Big tech

Must Have:

1. Strong marketing, communications or partnerships background - 8+ years
2. Strong writing background, working with academic, nonprofit or research institutes; can polish technical research
3. Partnerships or community work experience, launching external-facing content (case studies, blogs, video); understand writing should be very clearly communicated

Preferred:

1. Events Experience
2. Wearables, computer vision, background in AR/VR
3. Research and startups, building a community program from scratch

• Experience with accessibility-focused product work or disability community partnerships.
• Familiarity with academic research cycles, conference calendars, and university partnership agreements.
• Masters Degree

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

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At Tailored Management, we help people get jobs and take pride in their work, so we better take pride in ours too. Not every company has the opportunity to meaningfully and directly impact individuals in a way that makes their lives tangibly better. To better support our employees, we offer a wide variety of benefit options to support you. We offer:

• Medical Coverage – HDHP, PPO, and Surest plan options
• Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC)
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Short-Term Disability (STD)
• Long-Term Disability (LTD)
• Life & AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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