pagebird Role description · 2026
01Now hiring · 10 hrs / wk · Contract

Brand &
Community Lead

Own how Pagebird shows up to its readers, day after day — across social, the shop you'll help build, and the small creative details that make the brand feel like itself.

01About Pagebird

The place

Pagebird is a quiet, beautiful home for book clubs — a web app where readers start or join a club, read one book at a time together, talk it through chapter by chapter, and gather for meetups, all in one calm place. The tagline says it plainly: where readers flock.

Most reading groups live scattered across group chats, spreadsheets, and a calendar invite nobody can find. Pagebird brings a club's whole reading life — the current book, the discussion, the next meetup — under one roof, and treats it with the care a good book deserves: editorial, warm, and unhurried, built for the way people actually read.

We're early, but live. The product is open and the first clubs are reading inside it, and a small, well-made shop for readers is on the way. The brand has a clear voice; what it needs now is someone to carry that voice out into the world.

02What you'd own

~10 hrs / week

Social & posts

~4 hrs / week

Posting cadence and craft across Instagram and one or two other channels we land on together. Editorial planning, copywriting, light visual design, reader engagement. The voice of Pagebird in public.

Building the shop

~3 hrs / week

Pagebird's shop doesn't exist yet, and this role would own bringing it to life: deciding what's worth selling, setting it up on Shopify, directing product photography, and shaping the launch. Then the quiet machinery that keeps it running — fulfillment, inventory, customer email — so the shop feels reliable to the people buying from it.

Creative direction on brand touchpoints

~3 hrs / week

Imagery, product styling, the look and feel of our newsletters, packaging inserts, and small surprises that make the buying experience feel considered. The "museum gift shop" energy applied everywhere.

Total weekly time ~10 hours, flexible

03What you wouldn't own

The line

Product roadmap, hiring decisions, financial decisions, investor communications, and broader brand strategy beyond execution. These stay with the founder for now; where the line sits would be revisited as the role grows.

04What the founder is looking for

The fit
Consistency over brilliance.

Both social and operations fall apart the moment cadence slips. Steady, dependable work every week beats something brilliant twice a month.

Taste.

A point of view about what looks and reads well, and the willingness to defend it.

Comfort with feedback in both directions.

Expect honest, direct feedback on your work, and be ready to give it back. The role doesn't work without it.

Care for the small stuff.

The difference between a brand that feels alive and one that feels generic is almost always in the details nobody asked for.

05The shape of it

Terms
Hours
~10 hours per week, flexible scheduling, mostly async with a weekly check-in.
Rate
$40 / hour, billed as a flat $1,750 / month retainer for ~10 hrs/week — adjustable up or down at the 3-month mark based on how scope is actually landing.
Trial
3-month trial period, with an honest evaluation at the end; either side is free to step away if it isn't the right fit.
6-month review
If we continue past the trial, we'd discuss expanding the role, adjusting compensation, and a potential equity grant from Pagebird's option pool — standard vesting, meaningful but earned over time.
Relationship
Contractor, not employment. You set your own hours, use your own tools, and Pagebird will send you a 1099 at year-end.
IP
Standard work-for-hire — anything you create for Pagebird belongs to Pagebird, documented in a short contractor agreement.

06How we'd work together

The rhythm
Weekly 30-min check-in with the founder

What shipped, what's next, what's stuck.

Shared workspace in Notion

For the editorial calendar, shop ops, and ongoing projects.

Slack or text for in-between questions

Light touch, no expectation of instant replies.

A monthly retro for the first three months

What's working, what isn't, what to adjust.

07Why this role exists now

I can't build Pagebird's public face alone and have it be any good.

The brand is clear in my head; carrying it consistently out into the world is a different skill. This role works alongside me to do exactly that — bringing taste worth trusting and work worth pointing to, and owning this corner of Pagebird as their own.

— the founderPagebird · 2026

Is this your corner of the world?

Send a short note about the work you're most proud of, along with a link or two — no formal cover letter needed. The founder replies to every applicant within a week.

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