Community & Creator Lead - Remote/SF Bay Area

What we're building

Jiga is on a mission to help engineers build physical products faster.

The problem: engineers designing physical products waste weeks chasing quotes, vetting suppliers, and managing procurement instead of actually engineering. Jiga fixes this by connecting engineers directly with vetted manufacturers (CNC, sheet metal, injection molding, 3D printing).

We're a small, fully-funded, cashflow-positive team serving enterprise customers like NASA, Google, Tesla, and Apple.

The role

We're looking for a creative, high-agency person to own how Jiga shows up to the engineering world.

You'll design and run engineering challenges. Produce events. Build communities from scratch. Work with creators and influencers. Make content that engineers actually want to share. You'll be the voice reaching mechanical engineers - the people designing parts, specifying tolerances, and choosing manufacturing processes - at aerospace startups, robotics companies, and teams building things that haven't been built before.

This is a big, creative role with real freedom. If you want to build something of your own - not execute someone else's playbook - keep reading.

How we actually work

We’re a small remote team made up of the best of the best. Our team members are distributed around the globe. While most of our product and engineering talent is located in Europe and Israel, you’ll also work with people from the US and Asia. Most of our work is made async, which is the secret sauce of our success.

High trust, low bullshit: We don't count hours or peek over your shoulder on Slack. We trust you to get your work done and tell us when something's wrong. You'll have real ownership over what you build, no process theater, no busy-work meetings.

Question everything: See something that doesn't make sense? Say it. Have a better way to do something? Just do it. We actually mean it when we say we want people to challenge the status quo and improve things. Our internal motto is “Don’t drink the kool-aid”

No busy work, no fluff: “All we do is write code and talk to users” still works here. If you are addicted to heavy process building and endless busy-work meetings, that’s probably not a good fit.

Actually friendly, not corporate friendly: We play games online every week (current favorite: Make it Meme). Once a year we fly everyone somewhere beautiful for our offsite (Greece, here we come). We genuinely like hanging out together, which turns out to be way better than forced "team building exercises."

What you'll actually do

This isn't a "manage the community Slack" role. You'll create the things that make engineers pay attention:

Build experiences engineers talk about

• Design and run engineering challenges (think: "machine this impossible part" competitions, design-for-manufacturing puzzles, live build-offs)
• Produce events - virtual, IRL, hybrid - that bring hardware people together
• Create moments that spread: the kind of stuff engineers screenshot and send to their group chats

Own creator and influencer partnerships

• Find and work with the YouTubers, newsletter writers, podcast hosts, and community leaders that engineers actually trust
• Run collaborations end-to-end: outreach -> pitch -> negotiate -> produce -> measure
• Build long-term relationships, not one-off sponsorships

Build and run communities

• Identify where our audience actually spends time (not where we wish they did)
• Earn trust and access in those spaces - or build new ones from scratch
• Create community-native content that doesn't feel like marketing

Create content with full freedom

• You decide what we say, how we say it, and where it goes
• Turn Jiga's wins into formats that resonate: build recaps, teardown threads, behind-the-scenes stories, "what we learned" posts
• Write, produce, or direct whatever you think will work - then prove it

What success looks like

In 90 days:

• You've mapped the landscape - you know exactly which communities, creators, and events matter for our audience
• You've launched 2-3 partnerships or collaborations that are already driving real engagement or pipeline
• You've run at least one challenge or event that people actually showed up to (and talked about after)
• You have a clear POV on what's working and what we should double down on

In 12 months:

• Jiga is a recognized name in the hardware/manufacturing community - engineers know who we are before they need us
• You've built a repeatable system for creator partnerships, community content, and events
• You're directly contributing to qualified pipeline and signups you can point to
• You've shaped how the company thinks about community as a growth channel

You're a fit if

Experience

• 3-6 years in community, creator partnerships, events, or a related creative/marketing role
• You've built something - a community, a creator program, an event series, a content engine - and can show what it produced
• Comfortable in technical spaces - ideally with exposure to mechanical engineering, manufacturing, hardware, or robotics

Skills

• Strong writer with good taste - you know what sounds authentic vs. what sounds like marketing
• Natural connector - you're comfortable cold-DMing a YouTuber or introducing two people who should know each other
• Fast executor - you go from idea to shipped quickly and don't get stuck in planning
• Creative thinker - you come up with ideas that make people say "that's cool"

Traits

• You want ownership, not instructions
• You don't wait for permission
• You'd rather ship something imperfect than polish something forever
• You're genuinely excited about engineering and building physical things

Bonus points

• SF Bay Area hardware/manufacturing network - local connections in the mechanical engineering and hardware community are a big plus
• Experience with YouTube, podcasts, or newsletters in technical spaces
• You've run a Discord, Slack community, or in-person meetup that people actually liked