Full-Time

Organic Social & Community Manager

Pair Eyewear

Pair Eyewear

51-200 employees

Customizable eyewear with interchangeable top frames

Compensation Overview

$100k - $120k/yr

+ Discretionary short-term incentives + Discretionary long-term incentives

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid work in New York is required.

Category
Social Media (2)
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Requirements
  • At least 4 years of hands-on organic social and community management experience, ideally within the direct-to-consumer space.
  • Deep fluency across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, including their creative formats, algorithms, and community dynamics.
  • A demonstrated track record of growing engaged audiences and building brand communities rather than focusing only on impression metrics.
  • Strong project management skills, including running a content calendar and managing creator relationships.
  • Comfort working within or alongside creative, marketing, and customer relationship management teams to brief, review, and ship content at pace.
Responsibilities
  • Own strategy, planning, and publishing across all organic social channels, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and emerging platforms.
  • Build and manage a monthly content calendar aligned to product drops, licensed collection launches, seasonal moments, and brand tentpoles.
  • Partner with the creative team to brief and develop channel-native content, including polished brand assets and user-generated-content-style formats.
  • Stay ahead of platform trends and algorithm shifts and bring channel recommendations to the broader marketing team.
  • Own the community inbox by responding to comments, direct messages, and mentions across all platforms with speed, warmth, and consistent brand voice.
  • Build systems and playbooks for community engagement, including customer-care escalations and proactive community outreach.
  • Identify, engage, and cultivate relationships with Pair+ family, loyal customers, and organic advocates.
  • Surface recurring questions, trending topics, and customer sentiment and share community insights with product, creative, and marketing teams.
  • Collaborate with marketing and creative teams to source and manage a pipeline of user-generated-content creators and micro-influencers aligned with Pair's audience and aesthetic.
  • Brief creators on seasonal campaigns, product launches, and licensed collections including Disney and Marvel.
  • Build a repurposing workflow with the creative team to move high-performing organic and user-generated content into paid social.
  • Identify emerging creator talent and community trends before they peak.
  • Partner with the creative and paid social team to share high-performing organic content and community signals that inform advertising creative.
  • Collaborate with retention and email teams to amplify community-driven moments across channels.
  • Coordinate with marketing, product, and creative teams on licensed collection rollouts, ensuring organic social content meets Pair brand standards and partner style guides.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience at a brand with licensed partnerships or co-branded collaborations.
  • Background managing community for a subscription or membership product.
  • Experience building user-generated content pipelines or micro-influencer programs from the ground up.
  • Comfort analyzing social performance data in tools such as Sprout Social or native platform analytics.

Pair Eyewear offers customizable glasses for adults and children, built around interchangeable top frames. Customers start with base frames (from $60) and can add interchangeable top frames to change the look, enabling easy style updates without buying a new pair of glasses. The product line also includes a range of lenses, such as blue-light filtering, transition, and polarized options, with 100% UV protection. How it works: a customer buys a base frame and then purchases top frames to swap in and out, choosing lens types as needed. Returns are accepted within 30 days. What makes Pair Eyewear different: it focuses on interchangeable top frames and fashion-forward customization, offering multiple revenue streams from base frames, top frames, and specialized lenses, and serving both adults and kids. The goal is to let people match their eyewear to their outfits or moods, providing affordable, versatile options and a customer-centric shopping experience.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$149M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • December 2025 independent optical launch added 2,000 doors across North America.
  • 2026 collections keep product drops frequent, sustaining repeat visits and accessory sales.
  • 2024-2026 licensed collaborations with Disney, Lucasfilm, and museums widen low-cost acquisition.

What critics are saying

  • Headcount fell from 192 in 2024 to 114 in 2026, signaling serious operating strain.
  • BBB logged 111 complaints in three years; refund and fit problems damage trust.
  • Independent optical expansion increases channel conflict, and weak consumer retention ends growth economics.

What makes Pair Eyewear unique

  • Pair Eyewear's magnetic Top Frames create repeat purchases and constant style refreshes.
  • 2025 launch into independent optical adds a rare DTC-plus-wholesale distribution model.
  • 2024 Van Gogh, Met, and Star Wars collaborations deepen licensing-driven brand differentiation.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Paid Vacation

Company Equity

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid Work Options

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PR Newswire
Nov 13th, 2024
Pair Eyewear Brings Van Gogh'S Art To Life With Exclusive Capsule Collection

The seven new top frames are inspired by Van Gogh's most iconic works, advancing Pair's mission to bring joy and personalization to eyewear. NEW YORK, Nov. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pair Eyewear, the first direct-to-consumer and now leading customizable eyewear brand in the world, today announced the launch of the Van Gogh collection. The capsule collection, created in collaboration with The Van Gogh Museum and brokered by the museum's licensing agency, IMG, brings to life seven new top frames and accessories. Each piece is inspired by some of the artist's most iconic works, including The Yellow House (1888), Wheatfield (1888), and View of a Butcher's Shop (1888). This collection also includes a new top frame case and cleaning cloth set – marking the first time Pair Eyewear is unveiling co-branded eyewear accessories

Brands Untapped
Sep 30th, 2024
Pair debuts The Met eyewear collection

Pair Eyewear has partnered with The Met on a collection of frames inspired by the museum's collection of iconic paintings, sculptures and tapestries.

PR Newswire
Jul 26th, 2024
Pair Eyewear Announces First Collection Inspired By A Superfan: Dustin Gregory

"The Hall of Fame: Dustin's Edition" is a testament to the brand's mission to infuse joy and personalization into eyewear as well as its commitment to listening to customersNEW YORK, July 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pair Eyewear, the first direct-to-consumer and now leading customizable eyewear brand in the world, is thrilled to announce the official launch of the The Hall of Fame: Dustin's Edition, a vibrant and eclectic line inspired by a superfan, Dustin Gregory. The collection features 11 new top frames that embody Dustin's signature style and infectious positivity, demonstrating Pair Eyewear's dedication to listening to and celebrating its loyal community – its customers."This collection is a celebration of our community and a testament to how deeply we value and listen to our customers. By involving Dustin in the design process, we have created a collection that truly resonates with the joy and personalization that our brand strives to offer", said Sophia Edelstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Pair Eyewear.Dustin Gregory joined the Pair Eyewear family in December 2021 with his first purchase of "The Confetti," "The White Hearts," and "The Black & White Splatter" top frames. Since then, he has collected over 1,000 top frames. To celebrate this impressive milestone, Pair Eyewear invited Dustin to collaborate on a capsule collection inspired by his personal mantra: "treat yourself".Known for his playful selfies, which he shares with the Pair Eyewear community on Facebook (a growing, weekly-engaged group of 46,000 members), showcasing the latest top frames paired with matching suspenders, Gregory has inspired Pair's design team to create a collection that celebrates life's simple joys—from enjoying a cup of coffee to stepping out in a new pair of heels. Each frame in the "Dustin's Edition" is a testament to the fun and individuality that Pair Eyewear stands for."This collection is a celebration of our community and a testament to how deeply we value and listen to our customers

PYMNTS
Jul 10th, 2024
Shop Talk: D2C Frees Brands From The Inventory Constraints Of The Store

Without the limits of physical shelf space, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands can offer a wider range of products that may be more niche or less universally appealing, allowing for greater personalization. Sophia Edelstein, co-CEO and co-founder of D2C customizable glasses brand Pair Eyewear, discussed in a conversation for PYMNTS’ Shop Talk series how the channel enables the brand to better tailor its offerings to consumers’ specific preferences. “You can have different types of experiences online for different types of customers,” Edelstein said. “And this is very different than the traditional retail model, where you walk into a store and there’s a set amount of inventory because there’s a set amount of retail space… In an eCommerce world, we can try to attract different customers and merchandise to them in replicas of the same store online with different types of merchandising. Because of that, we can get hyper-personalized to different types of customer segments we’re going after.”

Trend Hunter
Jun 29th, 2024
Disney-Inspired Eyewear Collections

Pair Eyewear has introduced the Mickey & Friends collection.