AI Community & Partnerships Manager

About Us

Pearl is AI for professional services at global scale, combining advanced AI with verified human expertise to deliver help that is accurate, accountable, and fast. Since 2003, our network has connected millions of customers with licensed professionals across 196 countries, making real expertise available anytime, anywhere.

Our Values

• Data driven: Data decides, not egos
• Courageous: We take risks and challenge the status quo
• Innovative: We're constantly learning, creating, and adapting
• Lean: We focus on customers, using lean testing to learn how to serve them best
• Humble: Past success is not a guarantee of future success

About the Role

We’re hiring an AI Community & Partnerships Manager based in the San Francisco Bay area to help Pearl show up where the AI world actually happens.

This isn’t traditional marketing. It sits at the intersection of community, partnerships, and field marketing, with a strong bias toward action. You’ll build relationships with founders, engineers, and operators at leading AI companies—and shape how Pearl is perceived across the ecosystem.

If you’re already in the room—or know how to get in—you’ll thrive here.

What You’ll Do

Build Pearl’s Presence in the AI Ecosystem

• Engage deeply on platforms like X, Reddit, and other AI-native communities
• Contribute meaningfully to conversations—bringing insight, not noise
• Help define and evolve Pearl’s voice across social and community channels

Show Up in the Field

• Attend AI events across the Bay Area (meetups, dinners, conferences)
• Represent Pearl on the ground and build high-value relationships
• Execute event strategy—from scrappy activations to major conference moments

Drive Partnerships & Strategic Relationships

• Identify and connect with top AI companies and ecosystem players
• Initiate and support partnership conversations
• Turn relationships into tangible opportunities in collaboration with internal teams

Create Content That Resonates

• Develop or collaborate on sharp, relevant content (social, thought pieces, outreach)
• Translate complex AI capabilities into clear, compelling narratives
• Tailor messaging for both technical and non-technical audiences

Collaborate Across Teams

• Partner with enterprise, product, and leadership on GTM and positioning
• Bring back insights from the field to inform product and strategy

What Success Looks Like

• Pearl is visible, credible, and respected in key AI communities
• You’ve built strong relationships with high-value partners and operators
• Conversations you start convert into real opportunities
• You consistently identify opportunities—and act on them quickly

Who You Are

Deeply plugged into AI: You follow the space closely and can hold your own in conversations. You don’t need to be highly technical, but you understand the landscape and ask sharp questions.

A natural connector: You’re energized by meeting people and building relationships. You’re credible, curious, and know how to create momentum from a conversation.

Scrappy and proactive: You don’t wait for direction. You find opportunities, move quickly, and operate well in ambiguity.

Relevant experience: Background in community, partnerships, social, marketing, or business development. Experience in startups, emerging tech, or ecosystem-driven roles is a strong plus.

Why This Role

• Be on the front lines of the AI ecosystem
• High visibility, autonomy, and direct impact on growth
• Help define how a company shows up in one of the fastest-moving spaces in tech

Location: 

• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Willing to attend multiple in-person events per month

Pay Transparency: Pearl will provide pay transparency information upon application to those in qualifying jurisdictions. (Employment is with JustAnswer LLC, a Pearl company.)

Our Commitment to an Inclusive Workplace

We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where professional services are readily available to all. If you have curiosity, passion, and a collaborative spirit, come work with us. Pearl is committed to an inclusive workplace. Pearl is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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