JESSE LINDER enters his 24th season with the New York Jets after originally joining the organization as a community relations assistant in 2003. In his role as the team's vice president, community relations, Linder oversees all the club's community relations and charity outreach initiatives. He is responsible for the New York Jets Foundation, Youth Football outreach to underserved areas, implementation of the Inspire Change platform, support for the Lupus Research Alliance, and the execution of NFL Community platforms.

Under Linder's leadership, the Jets have helped transform the landscape of girls and women's flag football. In 2021, he guided the creation of the first-ever Girls Flag Football League in New Jersey, which quickly expanded from eight schools to more than 100, adding Long Island and Hudson Valley regions. That growth helped the Jets achieve their goal of having the sport adopted as an official high school championship sport in New York and a pilot varsity sport in New Jersey.

Most recently, Linder played a pivotal role in the creation of the largest collegiate women's flag football league in the nation, in collaboration with the Betty Wold Johnson Foundation and the ECAC. He has also overseen the expansion of girls flag football overseas with the creation of the first NFL-funded league in both the United Kingdom and Ireland. These efforts have earned significant national recognition, including a Front Office Sports Most Impactful Award (2024) and finalist recognition for the ESPYs Sports Humanitarian Award (2023).

In December of 2020, the community relations department collaborated with Jets players to identify four Inspire Change partners - All Stars Project, Innocence Project, New York Urban League and Year Up – all of which share the goal of reducing barriers and creating opportunities for individuals in need. As part of the partnerships, each organization received $250,000. Linder and the Jets have continued to fund and engage with these partners to provide opportunities and further their missions.

Linder previously served as a physical education teacher in the New Paltz Central School District, where he coached baseball, basketball and golf. He began his NFL career as an intern in the Miami Dolphins community relations department in 2002.

A native of New Paltz, NY, Linder graduated from the University of Delaware in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in health and physical education, with a minor in coaching science. He later earned his master's degree in sport management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2002. Linder enjoys playing golf in his spare time and owns a single-digit handicap. He and his wife, Jillian, dog, Ruby, and cats, Shea and Orosco, reside in New Jersey.