Growth & Community Lead

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• Role: Operations
• Experience: 3+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only

**Growth & Community Lead
** Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Full-time, in-person/hybrid

About Spine

Spine is building the modern operating layer for employee benefits, compliance, and people operations for startups. We're a YC company selling to venture-backed teams at the exact moment they outgrow their back office.

The Role

You own how Spine shows up in the SF startup ecosystem and everything that turns that presence into pipeline. Events, partnerships, community, and targeted outbound all sit with you. You generate and warm the top and middle of the funnel; our sales team closes. You'll be the reason founders and operators keep seeing, hearing about, and meeting Spine in person.

This is a build-from-zero role. There's no playbook waiting for you. There's a fast-growing company, a strong founder network, and a market that's ready.

What You'll Do

Events & Field

• Plan and run founder dinners, happy hours, panels, and meetups, both Spine-hosted and co-hosted.
• Build a consistent event calendar and own venues, vendors, invites, budgets, registration, and day-of execution.
• Proactively fill rooms with target startups and the specific decision-makers we want (founders, heads of people, finance leads).

Partnerships & Channel

• Build relationships with VC platform and portfolio-ops teams to get Spine in front of their portfolio companies through preferred-vendor status, co-hosted events, and warm intros.
• Own Spine's presence inside the YC ecosystem: YC Deals, batch and alumni penetration, Bookface, group sessions.