Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.
Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
We're looking for a world-class Platform Engineer with deep experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and backend systems to join our team. We're looking for a thought partner who is motivated by the opportunity to build robust, scalable infrastructure that will power an iconic consumer product shaping the future of travel.
Serve as infrastructure lead and own key decisions including cloud architecture, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code implementation.
Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure that supports our growing platform and enables rapid product development.
Develop internal tools, automation, and backend services that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
Work directly with engineering, and data teams to ensure infrastructure supports current needs while scaling for future growth.
Help establish infrastructure best practices and mentor engineers across the organization on cloud architecture, observability, and operational excellence.
Have 5+ years of technical experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
Have deep hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, etc.).
Have strong coding skills (Python, Javascript/Typescript, or similar) and experience building internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure services.
Have experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
Have experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and incident response practices.
Have demonstrated success leading infrastructure initiatives and making critical architectural decisions at previous roles.
Have prior experience at a high-growth stage company.
Treat engineering as the client who sees infrastructure as an enabler of innovation and rapid iteration.
Are motivated by building platforms that empower teams and enable exceptional consumer experiences.
Have the ability to exercise strong judgment and make difficult tradeoff decisions balancing cost, performance, security, and velocity.
Are an excellent listener and strong communicator, working well cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
Are comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.
Enjoy the process of building foundational systems that will support the company's growth for years to come.
Have a pragmatic approach to engineering — you're not dogmatic and know how to choose the best tool or process for the job at hand.
Come to work with energy, humility, and positivity.
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.
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Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n \n\n\nTHE ROLE:\n\nWe're looking for a world-class Platform Engineer with deep experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and backend systems to join our team. We're looking for a thought partner who is motivated by the opportunity to build robust, scalable infrastructure that will power an iconic consumer product shaping the future of travel.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO:\n\n - Serve as infrastructure lead and own key decisions including cloud architecture, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code implementation.\n\n - Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure that supports our growing platform and enables rapid product development.\n\n - Develop internal tools, automation, and backend services that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.\n\n - Work directly with engineering, and data teams to ensure infrastructure supports current needs while scaling for future growth.\n\n - Help establish infrastructure best practices and mentor engineers across the organization on cloud architecture, observability, and operational excellence.\n\n \n\n\nYOU MAY BE A RIGHT FIT FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU:\n\n - Have 5+ years of technical experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.\n\n - Have deep hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, etc.).\n\n - Have strong coding skills (Python, Javascript/Typescript, or similar) and experience building internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure services.\n\n - Have experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).\n\n - Have experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and incident response practices.\n\n - Have demonstrated success leading infrastructure initiatives and making critical architectural decisions at previous roles.\n\n - Have prior experience at a high-growth stage company.\n\n - Treat engineering as the client who sees infrastructure as an enabler of innovation and rapid iteration.\n\n - Are motivated by building platforms that empower teams and enable exceptional consumer experiences.\n\n - Have the ability to exercise strong judgment and make difficult tradeoff decisions balancing cost, performance, security, and velocity.\n\n - Are an excellent listener and strong communicator, working well cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.\n\n - Are comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.\n\n - Enjoy the process of building foundational systems that will support the company's growth for years to come.\n\n - Have a pragmatic approach to engineering — you're not dogmatic and know how to choose the best tool or process for the job at hand.\n\n - Come to work with energy, humility, and positivity.\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS:\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.\n\n - Competitive cash compensation and equity\n\n - Comprehensive health benefits\n\n - Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year\n\n - 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes\n\n - $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs\n\n - Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco\n\n - Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together\n\n - A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry\n\n - A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth\n\nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. 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Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
We're hiring a Director of Lifecycle Marketing to define and scale our member communications strategy. In this role, you'll build a best-in-class, global omni-channel lifecycle engine, optimizing the member experience while developing the strategy, systems, and playbooks that drive engagement across our hosting and traveling flywheel. You'll partner cross-functionally to connect a strong digital product experience with the storytelling and emotional connection of a lifestyle brand, creating personalized customer journeys that deepen engagement and drive long-term loyalty.
This is a player-coach role: you'll be hands-on to build Kindred’s lifecycle marketing foundation before scaling impact through a team you hire and develop. As such, success in this role requires equal parts thought leadership and execution. You'll constantly prioritize opportunities, identify the highest-leverage member problems to solve, and build the systems and experiences that drive meaningful business impact. This role is ideal for someone who combines creativity with strong technical, analytical, and operational skills and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.
You will be Kindred’s first Lifecycle marketing hire, where you will establish and lead Kindred’s lifecycle marketing function and report into the Head of Growth.
Own hosting and travel activation communications experience: Own the strategic roadmap, execution, and optimization of customer communications across email, SMS, push notifications, in-app messaging, and emerging lifecycle channels. Optimize existing programs, as well as leverage insights to iterate and launch new strategies to activate Kindred members across various audience segments.
Establish Lifecycle function. Establish cross-functional processes for campaign execution, measurement, and reporting. Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics to develop actionable lifecycle performance insights and evolve the data infrastructure that powers personalization, automation, and decision-making. Define lifecycle messaging best practices to deliver consistent, customer-centric experiences, and proactively identify and advocate for the people, tools, and resources needed to support the team's growth and long-term success.
Hone our GTM muscles. Develop messaging playbooks in partnership with PMM for new product launches and marketing campaigns, continuously improving with each iteration. Partner across Product, Engineering, Creative, and Marketing to bring together technical, creative, and lifecycle requirements and deliver seamless, end-to-end customer experiences.
Be a thought leader on existing members. Serve as the voice of the member by translating lifecycle performance into actionable insights. Regularly share results, learnings, and customer trends to deepen the organization's understanding of member segments, their journeys, and the behaviors that drive hosting, travel activation and long-term engagement.
Build a world-class lifecycle engine. Continually evolve the strategic direction of Kindred's lifecycle marketing discipline by bringing the latest advances in AI, personalization, experimentation, and marketing technology into our member experience. Champion new ways of working that improve efficiency, increase relevance, and unlock step-function growth.
12+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing and CRM strategy, ideally in consumer marketplace, membership, or network-based products.
Proven track record in building high volume lifecycle programs that drive measurable business outcomes.
You've worked closely with PM’s, Brand, Data, and Engineering teams and have strong project management and communication skills. You can write actionable engineering requirements and creative briefs in the same week.
Analytical mindset, with proven ability to gain insights from high-volume, complex, and omni-channel existing programs, and turn them into actionable results. Strong point of view on lifecycle data infrastructure and pipelines.
Mobile-first experience preferred. Deep experience with mobile and app channels – push, in-app, SMS, WhatsApp – with a strong point of view on channel strategy.
Hands-on experience in building campaigns and workflows, and working knowledge of optimal build-out of canvases, customer segments, and automations.
Equally comfortable rolling up sleeves to execute campaigns on an ongoing basis as you are building a strategy
Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for perfect data or a perfect brief. You can make progress toward goals even when there’s ambiguity or a lack of existing process.
Must have experience with Braze, CDP integrations, AI personalization and localization tooling.
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
","descriptionPlain":"Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.\n\nKindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe're hiring a Director of Lifecycle Marketing to define and scale our member communications strategy. In this role, you'll build a best-in-class, global omni-channel lifecycle engine, optimizing the member experience while developing the strategy, systems, and playbooks that drive engagement across our hosting and traveling flywheel. You'll partner cross-functionally to connect a strong digital product experience with the storytelling and emotional connection of a lifestyle brand, creating personalized customer journeys that deepen engagement and drive long-term loyalty.\n\nThis is a player-coach role: you'll be hands-on to build Kindred’s lifecycle marketing foundation before scaling impact through a team you hire and develop. As such, success in this role requires equal parts thought leadership and execution. You'll constantly prioritize opportunities, identify the highest-leverage member problems to solve, and build the systems and experiences that drive meaningful business impact. This role is ideal for someone who combines creativity with strong technical, analytical, and operational skills and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative startup environment.\n\nYou will be Kindred’s first Lifecycle marketing hire, where you will establish and lead Kindred’s lifecycle marketing function and report into the Head of Growth.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Own hosting and travel activation communications experience: Own the strategic roadmap, execution, and optimization of customer communications across email, SMS, push notifications, in-app messaging, and emerging lifecycle channels. Optimize existing programs, as well as leverage insights to iterate and launch new strategies to activate Kindred members across various audience segments.\n\n - Establish Lifecycle function. Establish cross-functional processes for campaign execution, measurement, and reporting. Partner with Data Engineering and Analytics to develop actionable lifecycle performance insights and evolve the data infrastructure that powers personalization, automation, and decision-making. Define lifecycle messaging best practices to deliver consistent, customer-centric experiences, and proactively identify and advocate for the people, tools, and resources needed to support the team's growth and long-term success.\n\n - Hone our GTM muscles. Develop messaging playbooks in partnership with PMM for new product launches and marketing campaigns, continuously improving with each iteration. Partner across Product, Engineering, Creative, and Marketing to bring together technical, creative, and lifecycle requirements and deliver seamless, end-to-end customer experiences.\n\n - Be a thought leader on existing members. Serve as the voice of the member by translating lifecycle performance into actionable insights. Regularly share results, learnings, and customer trends to deepen the organization's understanding of member segments, their journeys, and the behaviors that drive hosting, travel activation and long-term engagement.\n\n - Build a world-class lifecycle engine. Continually evolve the strategic direction of Kindred's lifecycle marketing discipline by bringing the latest advances in AI, personalization, experimentation, and marketing technology into our member experience. Champion new ways of working that improve efficiency, increase relevance, and unlock step-function growth.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT'S REQUIRED\n\n - 12+ years of experience in lifecycle marketing and CRM strategy, ideally in consumer marketplace, membership, or network-based products.\n\n - Proven track record in building high volume lifecycle programs that drive measurable business outcomes.\n\n - You've worked closely with PM’s, Brand, Data, and Engineering teams and have strong project management and communication skills. You can write actionable engineering requirements and creative briefs in the same week.\n\n - Analytical mindset, with proven ability to gain insights from high-volume, complex, and omni-channel existing programs, and turn them into actionable results. Strong point of view on lifecycle data infrastructure and pipelines.\n\n - Mobile-first experience preferred. Deep experience with mobile and app channels – push, in-app, SMS, WhatsApp – with a strong point of view on channel strategy.\n\n - Hands-on experience in building campaigns and workflows, and working knowledge of optimal build-out of canvases, customer segments, and automations.\n\n - Equally comfortable rolling up sleeves to execute campaigns on an ongoing basis as you are building a strategy\n\n - Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for perfect data or a perfect brief. You can make progress toward goals even when there’s ambiguity or a lack of existing process.\n\n - Must have experience with Braze, CDP integrations, AI personalization and localization tooling.\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS:\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.\n\n - Competitive cash compensation and equity\n\n - Comprehensive health benefits\n\n - Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year\n\n - 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes\n\n - $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs\n\n - Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco\n\n - Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together\n\n - A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry\n\n - A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth\n\nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. 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Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
Kindred is building a members-only home swapping network powered by trust. In a trust-based network, growth isn't just about driving traffic, it's about understanding who you're actually winning with, why, and how to reach more of them.
We're hiring a Senior Manager, Product Marketing to be the voice of the customer inside Kindred's growth engine. Your mandate: answer the question we don't yet have a definitive answer to: which segments are the right bets, and what does it take to win them? That means owning segment strategy, positioning, and go-to-market across Kindred's Identity Circles (e.g., solo female travelers, families), Affinity Circles (e.g., runners, design-lovers), and Org Circles (e.g., Google, Stanford) and building the structured testing framework to validate which of these are actually worth scaling.
This role sits within the Growth org. You'll equip our channel and brand teams with the segment opportunity sizing, prioritization, audience insights, positioning, and GTM playbooks they need to execute more effectively.
Own segment strategy and validation: Define which identity, affinity, and org segments represent real acquisition and retention opportunities for Kindred. Run structured tests to validate PMF signal, not just messaging resonance, but actual liquidity, activation, and retention by segment. Pivot from the wrong bets fast; double down on the right ones.
Build the GTM motion for priority audiences: Assess relative growth opportunity of segments and develop the corresponding GTM motion: positioning, messaging, channel strategy, activation flows, and retention hooks.
Equip cross-functional teams for execution: Turn customer insights, segment learnings, and positioning into actionable briefs that enable Growth, Social, PR, CRM, Partnerships, and Product teams to execute consistently.
Provide cohesive creative direction: Partner with channel and creative teams throughout launch planning to review messaging and ensure final assets stay true to the strategy.
Run structured market tests: Design and own the test roadmap. Define the hypotheses, measurement frameworks, and success criteria. Work cross-functionally with Product, Growth, and Data to instrument tests properly and synthesize what the results actually mean for the business.
Define positioning from truth, not aspiration: Ground messaging in what Kindred actually delivers, where the product wins, where the experience breaks down, and what's required for a segment to find real value. You'll work with Product to close the loop between market insight and product reality.
Act as the voice of the customer: Talk to members and prospects regularly. Translate what you're hearing into sharp segment insights, positioning improvements, and prioritized recommendations for Product and Growth leadership.
Lay the foundation for brand: The work you do: validating which segments win, which stories convert, and where to double down becomes the foundation for brand work.
10+ years of experience in product marketing, growth marketing, or audience strategy, ideally in consumer marketplace, membership, or network-based products.
Proven track record of segment or market validation work: you've taken an ambiguous customer hypothesis, run structured tests, and turned findings into a repeatable GTM motion.
Research-forward and analytically rigorous: you don't just run messaging tests, you understand how to isolate variables, structure experiments, and distinguish signal from noise.
Sharp positioning instincts: you know how to translate customer truth into messaging that resonates, and you can adapt it across various channels without losing clarity.
Cross-functional operator: you've worked closely with Product, Growth, and Data, and you know how to move things forward by leading through influence. Within Marketing, you have a sharp understanding of what each channel needs in order to drive cross-channel success.
Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for a full research budget or a perfect brief. You figure out what you need to know and go find it.
Strong writing and communication: you can turn messy customer inputs and qualitative signals into crisp positioning, clear strategy docs, and aligned internal recommendations.
Genuine curiosity about people and community: you understand how trust, belonging, and social proof shape consumer behavior, and you find that interesting, not just useful.
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.
","descriptionPlain":"Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.\n\nKindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nKindred is building a members-only home swapping network powered by trust. In a trust-based network, growth isn't just about driving traffic, it's about understanding who you're actually winning with, why, and how to reach more of them.\n\nWe're hiring a Senior Manager, Product Marketing to be the voice of the customer inside Kindred's growth engine. Your mandate: answer the question we don't yet have a definitive answer to: which segments are the right bets, and what does it take to win them? That means owning segment strategy, positioning, and go-to-market across Kindred's Identity Circles (e.g., solo female travelers, families), Affinity Circles (e.g., runners, design-lovers), and Org Circles (e.g., Google, Stanford) and building the structured testing framework to validate which of these are actually worth scaling.\n\nThis role sits within the Growth org. You'll equip our channel and brand teams with the segment opportunity sizing, prioritization, audience insights, positioning, and GTM playbooks they need to execute more effectively.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Own segment strategy and validation: Define which identity, affinity, and org segments represent real acquisition and retention opportunities for Kindred. Run structured tests to validate PMF signal, not just messaging resonance, but actual liquidity, activation, and retention by segment. Pivot from the wrong bets fast; double down on the right ones.\n\n - Build the GTM motion for priority audiences: Assess relative growth opportunity of segments and develop the corresponding GTM motion: positioning, messaging, channel strategy, activation flows, and retention hooks.\n\n - Equip cross-functional teams for execution: Turn customer insights, segment learnings, and positioning into actionable briefs that enable Growth, Social, PR, CRM, Partnerships, and Product teams to execute consistently.\n\n - Provide cohesive creative direction: Partner with channel and creative teams throughout launch planning to review messaging and ensure final assets stay true to the strategy.\n\n - Run structured market tests: Design and own the test roadmap. Define the hypotheses, measurement frameworks, and success criteria. Work cross-functionally with Product, Growth, and Data to instrument tests properly and synthesize what the results actually mean for the business.\n\n - Define positioning from truth, not aspiration: Ground messaging in what Kindred actually delivers, where the product wins, where the experience breaks down, and what's required for a segment to find real value. You'll work with Product to close the loop between market insight and product reality.\n\n - Act as the voice of the customer: Talk to members and prospects regularly. Translate what you're hearing into sharp segment insights, positioning improvements, and prioritized recommendations for Product and Growth leadership.\n\n - Lay the foundation for brand: The work you do: validating which segments win, which stories convert, and where to double down becomes the foundation for brand work.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT'S REQUIRED\n\n - 10+ years of experience in product marketing, growth marketing, or audience strategy, ideally in consumer marketplace, membership, or network-based products.\n\n - Proven track record of segment or market validation work: you've taken an ambiguous customer hypothesis, run structured tests, and turned findings into a repeatable GTM motion.\n\n - Research-forward and analytically rigorous: you don't just run messaging tests, you understand how to isolate variables, structure experiments, and distinguish signal from noise.\n\n - Sharp positioning instincts: you know how to translate customer truth into messaging that resonates, and you can adapt it across various channels without losing clarity.\n\n - Cross-functional operator: you've worked closely with Product, Growth, and Data, and you know how to move things forward by leading through influence. Within Marketing, you have a sharp understanding of what each channel needs in order to drive cross-channel success. \n\n - Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for a full research budget or a perfect brief. You figure out what you need to know and go find it.\n\n - Strong writing and communication: you can turn messy customer inputs and qualitative signals into crisp positioning, clear strategy docs, and aligned internal recommendations.\n\n - Genuine curiosity about people and community: you understand how trust, belonging, and social proof shape consumer behavior, and you find that interesting, not just useful.\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. 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By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.
Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
Kindred is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our product design team through its next phase of growth. You'll own the end-to-end member experience across web and mobile, lead and grow the design and research team (currently a team of five), and work directly with cross-functional leaders to shape where the product goes next.
This is a hands-on design leadership role reporting to the Co-founder & President. You'll set the vision, direct the team, and raise the bar. We’re looking for an AI-native leader to spend time prototyping and building alongside your team on the projects that matter most.
People & team leader
Lead, coach, and grow a cross-disciplinary design team spanning product design, research, and content/UX writing
Run the rituals, feedback culture, and career paths that make this a team people do their best work on
Strategy leader
Set the design vision and strategy for Kindred, and align it tightly with company strategy as a key thought partner to product, engineering, marketing and operations
Champion member-centric thinking across the company, grounding decisions in both qualitative insight and quantitative data
Lean into strategic growth design: activation, conversion, and the loops that turn members into evangelists
Craft bar raiser
Own the quality bar for the member experience, from big swings on new surfaces to the fit-and-finish details that make Kindred a design-forward and trusted platform
Build and scale the systems that let great design ship fast — design systems, tooling, rituals, and process that hold up as the team grows
Lead an AI-native design practice: set the standard for how the team uses AI across prototyping, research synthesis, and production, and evolve the workflow as the tools do
Brand & trust steward
Partner deeply with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system, from acquisition through the in-product experience
Have 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading and managing design teams
Have managed cross-functionally across product design, research, and content/writing, and know how to make those disciplines stronger together
Have a proven track record partnering with marketing and brand
Have deep experience with design systems: building them, scaling them, and using them to raise both quality and velocity
Have designed for trust between people (marketplaces, communities, or products where members take real-world leaps of faith)
Are AI-native and you have a point of view on how AI changes what a design team is and how it works
Are a strong operator: you run tight rituals, give sharp feedback, and build teams people want to stay on
Are a true player-coach, you still love the craft, and you ship work yourself when it counts
Have been the most senior design leader at a company, owning the function end-to-end (Head of Design, Director+, or equivalent)
You have experience with marketplace or community-driven consumer products
You've built or led both consumer and brand/marketing design work
You've shipped production features or internal tools built primarily with AI (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)
You've taken products from 0→1 and from 1→10 and know how the playbooks differ
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.
","descriptionPlain":"Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.\n\nKindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nKindred is looking for a Head of Product Design to lead our product design team through its next phase of growth. You'll own the end-to-end member experience across web and mobile, lead and grow the design and research team (currently a team of five), and work directly with cross-functional leaders to shape where the product goes next.\n\nThis is a hands-on design leadership role reporting to the Co-founder & President. You'll set the vision, direct the team, and raise the bar. We’re looking for an AI-native leader to spend time prototyping and building alongside your team on the projects that matter most.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\nPeople & team leader\n\n - Lead, coach, and grow a cross-disciplinary design team spanning product design, research, and content/UX writing\n\n - Run the rituals, feedback culture, and career paths that make this a team people do their best work on\n\nStrategy leader\n\n - Set the design vision and strategy for Kindred, and align it tightly with company strategy as a key thought partner to product, engineering, marketing and operations\n\n - Champion member-centric thinking across the company, grounding decisions in both qualitative insight and quantitative data\n\n - Lean into strategic growth design: activation, conversion, and the loops that turn members into evangelists\n\nCraft bar raiser\n\n - Own the quality bar for the member experience, from big swings on new surfaces to the fit-and-finish details that make Kindred a design-forward and trusted platform\n\n - Build and scale the systems that let great design ship fast — design systems, tooling, rituals, and process that hold up as the team grows\n\n - Lead an AI-native design practice: set the standard for how the team uses AI across prototyping, research synthesis, and production, and evolve the workflow as the tools do\n\nBrand & trust steward\n\n - Partner deeply with marketing and brand to ensure product and brand operate as one system, from acquisition through the in-product experience\n\n\n\n\nYOU MAY BE A RIGHT FIT FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU\n\n - Have 12+ years in product design, including 5+ years leading and managing design teams\n\n - Have managed cross-functionally across product design, research, and content/writing, and know how to make those disciplines stronger together\n\n - Have a proven track record partnering with marketing and brand\n\n - Have deep experience with design systems: building them, scaling them, and using them to raise both quality and velocity\n\n - Have designed for trust between people (marketplaces, communities, or products where members take real-world leaps of faith)\n\n - Are AI-native and you have a point of view on how AI changes what a design team is and how it works\n\n - Are a strong operator: you run tight rituals, give sharp feedback, and build teams people want to stay on\n\n - Are a true player-coach, you still love the craft, and you ship work yourself when it counts\n\n\n\n\nBONUS POINTS IF\n\n - Have been the most senior design leader at a company, owning the function end-to-end (Head of Design, Director+, or equivalent)\n\n - You have experience with marketplace or community-driven consumer products\n\n - You've built or led both consumer and brand/marketing design work\n\n - You've shipped production features or internal tools built primarily with AI (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)\n\n - You've taken products from 0→1 and from 1→10 and know how the playbooks differ\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS:\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.\n\n - Competitive cash compensation and equity\n\n - Comprehensive health benefits\n\n - Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year\n\n - 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes\n\n - $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs\n\n - Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco\n\n - Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together\n\n - A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry\n\n - A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth\n\nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. 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Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
We're hiring a Lead Copywriter to define Kindred's voice and own the words that carry it across every touchpoint. Today, Kindred's copy function lives across various agencies and individuals. This role exists to consolidate expertise and give Kindred one distinctive voice that clearly and consistently communicates what we believe.
This is a hands-on role: you'll write the copy Kindred needs today across paid and owned channels (lifecycle, social, in-product, etc.) while building the narrative frameworks and voice guidelines that keep that copy consistent as Kindred grows. Success here requires both strategic thinking and execution: you'll shape the point of view behind how Kindred talks about itself, and you'll write and review all of Kindred’s copy within the standards and voice that you’ve established.
You'll partner closely with Performance Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Social, and Product to make sure Kindred's story is consistent whether a member is reading a push notification, a homepage headline, or an ad on Meta. In some areas, you will also collaborate with Kindred’s agency partners, raising the bar on their output as you centralize copy into a single, coherent voice.
You will be Kindred's first in-house copywriting hire, reporting into the Head of Growth.
Write Kindred’s copy. Take ownership of copy execution across the business. Each word that leaves the building will have been written or reviewed by you.
Own brand voice and tone. Establish and evolve Kindred's voice guidelines so that every piece of writing, from a push notification to a welcome email, sounds unmistakably like Kindred. Be the go-to voice on what's on-brand and what isn't.
Translate Kindred’s narrative into language. Take complex concepts and key messaging priorities from leadership and translate them into clear and consistent messaging that transcend any individual channel.
Centralize the copy function. Provide oversight on Kindred’s agency partners that produce copy, and define the QA and review processes that keep their output sharp and consistent.
Partner across cross-functional teams. Work with Product Marketing and Integrated Marketing on positioning and launch messaging, with Lifecycle Marketing on member communications, with Creative, Social, and Performance Marketing on campaign execution, and with Product on in-product copy—making sure every channel is pulling from the same narrative and voice.
8+ years of experience in copywriting with a portfolio that shows both sharp, on-brand execution and the strategic thinking behind it.
Experience owning brand voice and messaging for a consumer brand—you've built or significantly evolved a voice and tone guide that other people actually use.
Experience managing freelance writers or agency relationships, with a clear point of view on how to brief, review, and get the best out of external partners.
Strong collaborator across Product, Growth, and Creative—you know how to translate strategy into language without losing nuance.
Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for a fully-staffed team or a polished brief to start moving Kindred's story forward.
Genuine interest in travel, trust, and community—you understand what makes people choose to open their home to a stranger, and can put words to why that matters.
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nWe're hiring a Lead Copywriter to define Kindred's voice and own the words that carry it across every touchpoint. Today, Kindred's copy function lives across various agencies and individuals. This role exists to consolidate expertise and give Kindred one distinctive voice that clearly and consistently communicates what we believe.\n\nThis is a hands-on role: you'll write the copy Kindred needs today across paid and owned channels (lifecycle, social, in-product, etc.) while building the narrative frameworks and voice guidelines that keep that copy consistent as Kindred grows. Success here requires both strategic thinking and execution: you'll shape the point of view behind how Kindred talks about itself, and you'll write and review all of Kindred’s copy within the standards and voice that you’ve established.\n\nYou'll partner closely with Performance Marketing, Lifecycle Marketing, Social, and Product to make sure Kindred's story is consistent whether a member is reading a push notification, a homepage headline, or an ad on Meta. In some areas, you will also collaborate with Kindred’s agency partners, raising the bar on their output as you centralize copy into a single, coherent voice.\n\nYou will be Kindred's first in-house copywriting hire, reporting into the Head of Growth.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Write Kindred’s copy. Take ownership of copy execution across the business. Each word that leaves the building will have been written or reviewed by you.\n\n - Own brand voice and tone. Establish and evolve Kindred's voice guidelines so that every piece of writing, from a push notification to a welcome email, sounds unmistakably like Kindred. Be the go-to voice on what's on-brand and what isn't.\n\n - Translate Kindred’s narrative into language. Take complex concepts and key messaging priorities from leadership and translate them into clear and consistent messaging that transcend any individual channel.\n\n - Centralize the copy function. Provide oversight on Kindred’s agency partners that produce copy, and define the QA and review processes that keep their output sharp and consistent.\n\n - Partner across cross-functional teams. Work with Product Marketing and Integrated Marketing on positioning and launch messaging, with Lifecycle Marketing on member communications, with Creative, Social, and Performance Marketing on campaign execution, and with Product on in-product copy—making sure every channel is pulling from the same narrative and voice.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT'S REQUIRED\n\n - 8+ years of experience in copywriting with a portfolio that shows both sharp, on-brand execution and the strategic thinking behind it.\n\n - Experience owning brand voice and messaging for a consumer brand—you've built or significantly evolved a voice and tone guide that other people actually use.\n\n - Experience managing freelance writers or agency relationships, with a clear point of view on how to brief, review, and get the best out of external partners.\n\n - Strong collaborator across Product, Growth, and Creative—you know how to translate strategy into language without losing nuance.\n\n - Scrappy and self-directed: you don't wait for a fully-staffed team or a polished brief to start moving Kindred's story forward.\n\n - Genuine interest in travel, trust, and community—you understand what makes people choose to open their home to a stranger, and can put words to why that matters.\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.\n\n - Competitive cash compensation and equity\n\n - Comprehensive health benefits\n\n - Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year\n\n - 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes\n\n - $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs\n\n - Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco\n\n - Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together\n\n - A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry\n\n - A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth\n\n\n\nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. 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Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
We're looking for a full-stack Software Engineer who leads with UI/UX craft — someone who can build polished, dynamic consumer experiences in React and React Native, with the backend depth to take a feature from idea to production without a handoff. You'll own features end-to-end: shaping the interaction, building the interface, writing the APIs and data models behind it, then shipping, measuring, and iterating. Strong product and design instincts matter here — you should care how something feels, not just whether it works. You'll work across web and mobile to keep those experiences cohesive, and help build a consumer product that will shape the future of travel.
Build features that feel effortless to users and are easy for other engineers to extend
Balance business priorities, user experience, and a durable technical foundation when the three pull in different directions
Track down production issues wherever they live, from the UI to the backend
Keep raising the bar on quality and speed as our web and mobile surfaces grow
Have 3+ years building consumer-facing applications, with real depth in React and React Native and enough backend experience to build a feature all the way down
Are fluent in TypeScript across the stack — we build on Next.js, React Native/Expo, and Node + GraphQL over Postgres, and value people who pick up new tools quickly over people who've used exactly ours
Have a sharp eye for UI detail and a deep understanding of consumer UX across web and mobile, with a track record of building interfaces that stay fast and reusable at scale
Have the product and design judgment to work from a rough direction — you make the dozens of small calls a spec never covers, and know which few are worth escalating
Have strong ownership instincts — you see the thing through to shipped and working, and pick up the unglamorous parts nobody assigned
Communicate and listen well, and work easily cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
Are motivated by consumer products that shape how people behave
At Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.
Our openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.
Competitive cash compensation and equity
Comprehensive health benefits
Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year
21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
$4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together
A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry
A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. Kindred does not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, medical condition, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, marital status, domestic partner status, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by US federal, state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work.
","descriptionPlain":"Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. By exchanging primary residences with trusted peers, renters and owners alike can match with Kindred spirits and explore new destinations without breaking the bank.\n\nKindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.\n\nTo support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.\n\nKindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.\n\nWe’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.\n\nYou can learn more about us in Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescawalton/2026/02/03/home-swap-startup-kindred-raises-125-million-in-fresh-funding-as-travelers-seek-creative-ways-to-save-money/ and The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/realestate/is-your-apartment-nice-enough-for-this-home-swapping-app.html.\n\n\n\n\nTHE ROLE:\n\nWe're looking for a full-stack Software Engineer who leads with UI/UX craft — someone who can build polished, dynamic consumer experiences in React and React Native, with the backend depth to take a feature from idea to production without a handoff. You'll own features end-to-end: shaping the interaction, building the interface, writing the APIs and data models behind it, then shipping, measuring, and iterating. Strong product and design instincts matter here — you should care how something feels, not just whether it works. You'll work across web and mobile to keep those experiences cohesive, and help build a consumer product that will shape the future of travel.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO:\n\n - Build features that feel effortless to users and are easy for other engineers to extend\n\n - Balance business priorities, user experience, and a durable technical foundation when the three pull in different directions\n\n - Track down production issues wherever they live, from the UI to the backend\n\n - Keep raising the bar on quality and speed as our web and mobile surfaces grow\n\n\n\n\nYOU MAY BE A RIGHT FIT FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU:\n\n - Have 3+ years building consumer-facing applications, with real depth in React and React Native and enough backend experience to build a feature all the way down\n\n - Are fluent in TypeScript across the stack — we build on Next.js, React Native/Expo, and Node + GraphQL over Postgres, and value people who pick up new tools quickly over people who've used exactly ours\n\n - Have a sharp eye for UI detail and a deep understanding of consumer UX across web and mobile, with a track record of building interfaces that stay fast and reusable at scale\n\n - Have the product and design judgment to work from a rough direction — you make the dozens of small calls a spec never covers, and know which few are worth escalating\n\n - Have strong ownership instincts — you see the thing through to shipped and working, and pick up the unglamorous parts nobody assigned\n\n - Communicate and listen well, and work easily cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment\n\n - Are motivated by consumer products that shape how people behave\n\n\n\n\nOUR BENEFITS:\n\nAt Kindred, we know that good things happen when we look out for one another. We offer a thoughtful, human-first benefits package designed to support health, wellbeing, and connection.\n\nOur openings may span more than one career level. The base salary offered depends on factors such as experience, transferable skills, business needs, impact, and market data.\n\n - Competitive cash compensation and equity\n\n - Comprehensive health benefits\n\n - Flexible time off, plus 12 paid holidays per year\n\n - 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes\n\n - $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs\n\n - Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco\n\n - Regular team and company offsites to connect, collaborate, and build together\n\n - A vibrant, inclusive, and highly skilled team that ferociously protects team chemistry\n\n - A culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth\n\nWe are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. 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Kindred is revolutionizing the “third option” of travel accommodation, compared to short-term rentals and hotels. Since launching in 2022, Kindred has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities and puts home swapping on the map as a radically more affordable, responsible, and connected way to travel.
To support that momentum, Kindred has raised over $150M in capital from some of the most credible investors in Silicon Valley, including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Bessemer Venture Partners, Caffeinated Capital, Elad Gil, and founders of companies like Opendoor, Figma, ClassPass, and more.
Kindred’s co-founders are proven leaders from the early team at Opendoor ($15B+ exit), who have each built and scaled products that today generate $1B+ annual revenue combined.
We’re looking for the world’s top builders, executors, and believers to help us make travel more meaningful.
You can learn more about us in Forbes and The New York Times.
At Kindred, every member is both host and traveler, with hosting being the vehicle for earning credits towards travel. This makes hosting our hardest and most important growth lever: rather than recruiting a separate supply side, we're asking our own members to take the harder, higher-trust step of opening their home. That's a behavior best unlocked through trust—people are far more willing to open their home to, and swap with, others they already share a real bond with: an alma mater, an employer, a sport, a cause, a professional community.
The goal of this Founding Partnerships leader is to define and build a partnerships function for the business—setting the strategy, defining success metrics, and validating the operating model for scale via direct partnership execution during the 6-month contract period. You'll take ownership of our active inbound partnership pipeline, build out a systematic outbound strategy, and structure deals engineered to contribute meaningful supply growth to the platform.
This is a lean team, and we're looking for someone adept at shifting between both strategy and execution: sourcing, pitching, negotiating, and closing deals yourself from day one, while defining the operating model, metrics, and organizational roadmap for the function to scale. We're structuring this as a contract-to-hire engagement, with the goal of at least 2 signed, meaningful partnerships by the close of the 6 months.
Own and close Kindred's inbound partnership pipeline: Evaluate, prioritize, and drive to signature a set of active inbound partnership leads from organizations and communities with large, pre-established member bases.
Build Kindred's outbound partnerships strategy: Define priority verticals (e.g., sports and fitness communities, professional and alumni networks, large employers, social clubs, mission-aligned associations, etc.), build a target account list, and codify a repeatable, vertical-specific partnership offering and pitch.
Design deals that bottom-line impact: Strategically structure partnerships with terms calibrated towards high-trust behaviors within in the funnel to unlock marketplace liquidity
Lead full-cycle deal execution: Source, pitch, negotiate, and close partnerships end-to-end, then manage the relationship through launch and into ongoing performance management.
Shape Circles strategy alongside partnership strategy: Leverage Circles (Kindred’s recently launched in-product sub-communities) as a way in to relevant organizations; additionally, support tentpole Circles launches with partnerships channel support to drive Circles acquisition and activation goals
Build Kindred’s partnerships playbook: Create reusable frameworks, pitch materials, and outreach sequences by vertical so the partnership motion can scale beyond this initial engagement.
Report on pipeline health and performance: Track partnership-sourced host activation, cost per activated host, and payback against Kindred's marketplace health targets, and share ongoing progress with Growth leadership and the broader team.
Integrate Partnerships into the business: Define cross-functional working model spanning Circles GTM, Lifecycle Marketing, Product, and Legal teams to ensure the function becomes a scalable growth engine embedded throughout the business
Have 12+ years of experience in partnerships, business development, or growth roles, ideally at a high-growth consumer marketplace, membership, or community-driven platform.
Have direct experience building and scaling a partnerships function from the ground up at a high-growth consumer startup. You know what it takes to go from a handful of scrappy deals to a repeatable, systematized motion.
Have a proven track record sourcing, negotiating, and closing partnerships that drove measurable supply or demand growth on a two-sided marketplace. Extra credit if that supply was a harder, higher-friction behavior to unlock (e.g., listing a home, a car, or other high-trust asset).
Know how to structure a deal around the behavior you actually want rather than top-of-funnel vanity metrics like leads or sign-ups.
Are a strong, credible external-facing negotiator, comfortable pitching and closing deals directly with executives, community leaders, or organization decision-makers.
Are highly comfortable operating with ambiguity and building from scratch: this is a lean, high-ownership role where you'll be sourcing your own pipeline, building your own materials, and closing your own deals from day one.
Bring sharp judgment on prioritization. Able to size and rank a wide range of potential partners and communities and focus energy on the highest-leverage few.
Are a clear, structured communicator who can synthesize deal economics and pipeline health for an executive-level audience.
Are available to commit to a focused, full-time 6-month engagement, with flexibility to extend or convert to a full-time role based on performance and business needs.
Have direct experience with home-sharing, home-swap, or similarly high-trust marketplace models (e.g., Airbnb, Turo, Vrbo, Peerspace, or similar).
Have closed partnerships with large membership organizations, associations, unions, alumni networks, or corporate employee communities.
Have experience partnering with product teams to translate a partnership into a bespoke product experience