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# Founding Community and Events Lead at Jack & Jill

- **Company:** Jack & Jill
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $100k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jack-jill-external-ats/1888a06c-d3d6-43b8-9f7b-e69294871575

## Job description

## FOUNDING COMMUNITY AND EVENTS LEAD

## WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Jack & Jill is changing how companies hire. We’re ~25 people, backed by $20M, headquartered in London and building fast. We launched in San Francisco earlier this year and now we need someone to make the Bay Area’s startup world stop and pay attention.

This is a role for a true superconnector: someone who can throw a room-stopping event and turn it into content that reaches ten times the people who showed up. Every event is two things at once: a real-life moment and a content asset.

You run it, you capture it, you amplify it. That’s the loop, and you own it end to end.

## WHAT YOU’LL OWN

You’ll design and execute high-impact events (career fairs, founder dinners, meetups, and new formats nobody’s tried yet and we haven’t thought of) that put Jack & Jill in front of the people we most want to reach.

Then take each event and make it travel: recaps, clips, photos, and posts across LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram, and X that grow our audience and pull the next crowd through the door.

Events without amplification waste the moment. Social without real events behind it rings hollow. You’ll do both, and you’ll build the playbook as you go.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own events end to end (concept, logistics, guest lists, day-of execution, follow-up) at real volume.
- Turn every event into social content that extends its reach far beyond the room, and grow a following around it.
- Activate your SF network from day one and keep widening it: founders, VCs, and operators who show up because your event is the one to be at.
- Connect the dots from events and content to awareness and pipeline, and measure what’s actually working.
- Operate independently in a distributed team (we’re 8 hours ahead in London), you’ll report to our GTM Lead, Kaoru and work closely with the SF GTM team.

## YOU’LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU

- Have run event series at high volume and amplified them on socials with real, measurable reach. You’ve lived both halves of the loop.
- Come from an events, community, or content role at a startup, fintech, or VC-adjacent company, ideally right here in SF.
- Are a recognised connector in the SF ecosystem: people seek you out for intros and access, and they discover you through your content.
- Have built something from zero (a community, a meet-up, an event series, a social following) as a hands-on doer, not from a management seat.
- Can see the line from a great dinner to a warm pipeline, and you’re comfortable being measured on it.
- Love the scrappy, high-ownership, 0-to-1 reality of an early-stage startup and want equity upside to match.

## BONUS POINTS

- You’ve run events or communities at a VC fund or accelerator and amplified founder dinners, demo days, or portfolio moments on social media.
- You were the first community/events/partnerships hire somewhere and built the function from scratch.
- You’ve tied community work to sign-ups, acquisition, or partnerships with numbers to show for it.
- You’re genuinely excited about AI and the future of hiring.

## THE DETAILS

- Type: Individual contributor. You do the hands-on work yourself, not through a team.
- Location: San Francisco, hybrid / in-office. This is an SF role and your network needs to be SF-real.
- Compensation: $100–160k base plus meaningful equity.
- Work authorization: US right to work strongly preferred. Visa sponsorship is possible in exceptional cases but will slow the process.

## About Jack & Jill

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Jack & Jill is an AI hiring platform that uses two complementary AI agents—Jack for candidates and Jill for companies—to connect pre-vetted professionals with opportunities at startups.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $20M Seed round)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK; with a San Francisco office for the US market
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Matthew Wilson (CEO), Saaras Mehan (CTO), and Carla L [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/jackjillai/__wLcwVwws4k1gNMZOig9YJQ2ERxniHFBUBezcJQ0ShIw)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered recruitment / talent acquisition
- **Target customers**: B2B (employers – Seed-to-Series-C startups) and B2C (job seekers – professionals in engineering, marketing, sales, operations, design, product, and leadership)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Introduce remarkable people to remarkable companies” – solving the inefficiency in the job market by using conversational AI to replace traditional job boards and agency recruiting [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **Jack** – A free AI career agent for candidates. Jack scans 15 million jobs daily, conducts mock interviews, benchmarks salary, provides career-clarity coaching, and introduces candidates directly to hiring managers. Jack is fiduciary to the candidate and never works for companies. [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Jill** – An AI recruiter for companies. After a hiring team briefs Jill on a role, Jill returns a curated shortlist of candidates from Jack’s network within minutes. Jill handles outreach, scheduling, and pipeline management, and integrates with Ashby ATS. [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Additional candidate tools**: Salary Benchmark, Mock Interviews, Career Clarity Coaching, Job Description Compare, and Hiring Salary Estimator [jackandjill.ai/about-us](https://jackandjill.ai/about-us)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, seed-stage)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $20M Seed round (October 2025) [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor Creandum (backed Spotify, Klarna, Bolt) [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Network of 281,466 pre-vetted professionals (as of mid-2026) [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
  - 2,000+ Seed-to-Series-C startup customers in London, San Francisco, and New York [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
  - Headcount grew ~1,500% year-over-year to 29 employees (LinkedIn data) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jackandjillai)
  - 494 active job postings, with monthly posting growth of +128.7% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jackandjillai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Dual‑agent model**: Jack builds and maintains a trusted candidate network; Jill matches that network to live roles. No conflict of interest because Jack never works for employers and Jill never cold-messages strangers. [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Speed and cost**: Shortlists delivered within minutes; 10% success fee vs. 20–30% for traditional agencies, with a 3-month full-refund guarantee. No retainers or minimum commitments. [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Algorithmic fairness**: Published a 2026 Guide to Bias in AI Recruitment, demonstrating a commitment to reducing bias in hiring decisions. [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Candidate-first design**: Every candidate has a real conversation with Jack (about 500/day) and opts in before being presented to companies, resulting in higher-intent matches.

## Strategic Focus
- **US market expansion**: After launching in London, the seed funding is fueling a push into San Francisco/Bay Area and New York, with a dedicated US GTM team [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/)
- **Product depth**: Continuing to enhance Jack’s coaching and mock interview capabilities, and refining Jill’s matching and integration (e.g., bidirectional Ashby ATS sync) [jackandjill.ai](https://jackandjill.ai/)
- **Category creation**: Aiming to become the default hiring infrastructure for startups, displacing traditional agencies and legacy job boards [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/)

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth startup**: Headcount growing rapidly (1,500% YoY), offering early‑stage impact and career acceleration [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jackandjillai)
- **Mission-driven**: Solving a real pain point in the job market with AI that aims to be fair, transparent, and candidate-friendly.
- **Culture & team**: Small but growing team of ~29 with founding leads in growth, GTM, design, and marketing. Office presence in London, San Francisco, and New York. Remote/hybrid policy not publicly detailed but likely flexible given distributed US/UK operations.
- **Notable perks**: Free candidate tools (salary benchmarking, mock interviews) available to employees; equity in a well-funded seed-stage company with top-tier investors like Creandum.
- **Engineering focus**: Building AI agents at scale, with opportunities to work on NLP, bias mitigation, and real-time matching systems.

## Sources
1. [jackandjill.ai - Homepage](https://jackandjill.ai/)
2. [jackandjill.ai - About Us](https://jackandjill.ai/about-us)
3. [techcrunch.com - Jack & Jill raises $20M](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/jack-jill-raises-20-million-to-bring-conversational-ai-to-job-hunting/)
4. [linkedin.com - Jack & Jill company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/jackandjillai)
5. [tracxn.com - Jack & Jill profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/jackjillai/__wLcwVwws4k1gNMZOig9YJQ2ERxniHFBUBezcJQ0ShIw)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com - Jack & Jill careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/jack-jill-external-ats)

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