About Us

Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform.

Canary is utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries to equip hoteliers with the technology they need to work smarter and wow their guests. Major hotel brands such as Wyndham, Marriott, IHG, Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Best Western trust Canary to deliver results.

Canary was named a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and a HotelTechReport Best Place to Work — and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.

Join us in shaping the future of hospitality!

About Us

Canary Technologies is changing the game for hotels with modern software powered by Canary's hospitality-specific AI platform.

Canary is utilized by 20,000+ hoteliers in 100+ countries to equip hoteliers with the technology they need to work smarter and wow their guests. Major hotel brands such as Wyndham, Marriott, IHG, Four Seasons, Rosewood, and Best Western trust Canary to deliver results.

Canary was named a 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ company, a Most Innovative Company by Fast Company and a HotelTechReport Best Place to Work — and is backed by top Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, F-Prime, Brighton Park Capital and Insight Partners.

Join us in shaping the future of hospitality!

About the Role

The Community Lead will build Canary's customer advocacy and community program from the ground up. Canary’s community program will turn hotel customers and users into a network of champions who support pipeline, contribute to cross-sell, and collectively become the most credible voice Canary has in market. The right person has built a customer community or advocacy program before — ideally at a B2B SaaS company — and knows what it takes to earn participation from a busy, skeptical audience.

About the Role

The Community Lead will build Canary's customer advocacy and community program from the ground up. Canary’s community program will turn hotel customers and users into a network of champions who support pipeline, contribute to cross-sell, and collectively become the most credible voice Canary has in market. The right person has built a customer community or advocacy program before — ideally at a B2B SaaS company — and knows what it takes to earn participation from a busy, skeptical audience.

Responsibilities

Build and run Canary's community program — a curated network of power users who support sales cycles, generate referrals, and represent Canary in market — to turn happy customers into advocates.

Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of Canary’s community events ranging from large user conferences to recurring workshops to one-time moments that deepen customer relationships and surface new advocates.

Connect power users with Canary’s customer base to share best practices, insights, and ways of working that inspire new projects and greater adoption.

Generate authentic content that represents customer stories in their voice and context that resonates with prospects and customers.

Curate a library of customer created use cases and proof points to drive new business and expansion business partnering with Growth, Content, Product Marketing, Sales, and CS to source and distribute success stories where most effective in the buying cycle.

Monitor and optimize Canary’s brand on established, 3rd-party community forums, sharing feedback and learnings with the Product and GTM teams, sparking new initiatives, influence the product roadmap, or activate areas for improvement.

Identify, build, and maintain relationships with key consultants, industry influencers, and leading voices in the hospitality industry to ensure deep understanding and appreciation of Canary’s solution set.

Own the metrics framework that connects Community activities to new business, expansion opportunities, and greater adoption of the platform.

Qualifications

5-8+ years in customer advocacy, community, or customer marketing at a B2B SaaS company

Has built a structured advocacy or champions program before from the ground up

Event experience: has designed and run customer-facing gatherings with accountability for outcomes, not just logistics

Strong relationship builder — credible with both hotel operators (or equivalent busy, skeptical end users) and internal commercial stakeholders

GTM-oriented: thinks in pipeline and revenue terms, not community health scores

Self-directed, comfortable operating without a playbook in the early stages of a program

Experience partnering with Sales, CS, and PMM — understands how to make community outputs useful to each function

Experience producing publication-quality creative content, both written and visually

Motivated by fast-moving environments where you build a function as you run it

Hospitality or vertical SaaS experience a plus, not a requirement

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $110,000 — $125,000. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a performance-based bonus paid monthly, with a target of $30,000 - $45,000 annually. This brings the total expected cash compensation range to $140,000 – $170,000.

Compensation is subject to standard withholding and applicable taxes. Actual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate’s skill level, experience, and specific work location. This role may also include the opportunity to earn equity.

We also work hard to ensure Canary is a fun and exciting place to work! Here are some of the additional benefits:

Canary Days: As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off.

Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals.

Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization.

Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so. Spend time working with the team in their office, and use the rest of your time exploring a new city!

Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.

Canary Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate and promote talent regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.