Community Partnership Manager (NYC)

At Acorns, our mission is to look after the financial best interests of the up-and-coming, beginning with the empowering, proud step of micro-investing. How do we accomplish our mission? Our values.

Lead With Heart - With compassion, integrity, and tenacity, inspire yourself and others to move past all previous thresholds of possibility

Make Bold Decisions - We are creating a new world. Be optimistic, adventurous, and courageous. Leap fearlessly into the future

Always Build Trust - Say what you mean, mean what you say, and do what you say you’re going to do. We are all owners. We are one team

Never Stop Growing - Change IS the constant. Stay hungry and curious. Be relentless in the pursuit of progress

Find a way - Never settle, no excuses, nothing is impossible. Just make it happen

Our values guide us, and our mission drives us. Come join us and help deliver financial wellness for the whole family, putting the tools of wealth-making into everyone’s hands.

Community Partnerships Manager | Acorns (NYC)

One tip a day can add up to $1M in retirement...if you invest it.

We've built a product for the people who make your community the community you love: they make your daily coffee, know just the way you like your hair styled, and always slot you in for a last-minute appointment. You can help us bring easy-to-use financial wellness tools to them, and build the product together with us.

Acorns is launching a new product for the tipping economy as part of its financial wellness platform, starting with barbers and hair stylists. As part of the Community team, you'll go directly into barbershops and salons, build trust with the people who work there, introduce them to Acorns and its full suite of financial wellness products, and help them take their first step toward financial security with the Acorns App. Details of the program will be shared during the interview process.

Why is this important? Most people who work on tips don’t have a 401(k), an employer match, or a way to plan their retirement. Acorns believes everyone deserves simple tools to save, invest, and build financial confidence, and this is a first step they can take on their own terms.

This is a flexible, part-time position in NYC. You set your own schedule, up to 40 hours per week. The role is expected to last 3 months, with the potential to extend based on individual performance and program needs. Employment is at-will.

What you will do at Acorns:

• Drive field outreach and conduct direct, in-person community visits to barbershops and hair salons within your designated territory.

• Walk your territory - hitting 10–15 barbershops and salons per day on foot in your city and meet the performance goals outlined for you.

• Walk-in. Open with Acorns. Educate barbers and stylists on Acorns’ financial wellness tools in plain, accessible terms - no jargon. Demo the product. Keep it under 60 seconds.

• Introduce barbers and stylists to the Acorns app and encourage them to sign up directly on their own device.

• Log every visit: shop name, contact, social handles, funnel stage, outcome.

• Build marquee shop relationships (3–5 per city) - these become your local proof points.

• Represent Acorns at industry events and meetups.

• Host local events (customer happy hours, meetups, etc)

• Capture customer content and insights (feedback, insights, content for social media)

• Prepare for future market expansion into broader cash-tip and gig economy sectors as our field strategy scales.

• Represent Acorns in the community. You are the mission made visible.

What you will bring to Acorns:

• A genuine belief that tipped workers deserve the same financial tools as anyone else.

• The ability to build trust fast. In a barbershop or salon, you may only have 60 seconds.

• Active listening. The best conversation starts with a question, not a script.

• Comfort walking in cold. Resilience when outreach doesn’t lead to engagement

• Confidence in a room. Whether it's one-on-one or a shop full of people, you hold it.

• An instinct for content - knowing when a moment is shareable and capturing it.

• Familiarity with barbershop and salon culture. You understand the room before you walk into it.

• Curiosity. You will have the opportunity to help the team build the perfect product tailored specifically for this community.

You are not expected to have experience with all listed requirements. If you feel passionate about Acorns' mission, vision, and values, please apply.

What we offer:

• Compensation: $20–$25 per hour, up to 40 hours per week. This role is also eligible for uncapped incentive compensation, with a target incentive opportunity of $1,500-$3,000 per month for team members who meet or exceed their goals, plus monthly team recognition bonuses for top performers. Incentive pay is not guaranteed and is governed by a written incentive plan.

• Flexible work schedule

• Coaching to help you successfully meet your goals - social media and compliance training, event planning and production, basic financial training if you don’t feel confident (yet)

• The rare opportunity to create a new world. We inspire one another every day to do meaningful work that solves big societal challenges.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify compensation (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

 

About Acorns: Acorns is the financial wellness company helping everyday Americans grow their money for the long term. Since 2014, Acorns has grown into a company with multiple life stage products serving the needs of kids, teens, adults and parents. Named one of America's Best Financial Services of 2026 by TIME, Acorns has served over 16 million people, and helped customers save & invest over $33 billion dollars, much of it from spare change and small amounts.

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