Senior Community Manager (contract)

Reddit; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social media platform is seeking a Senior Community Manager to drive community growth in Australia. This role involves understanding local market dynamics, developing strategic engagement initiatives, and collaborating with various teams to enhance community relations. Candidates should have a strong background in community development and a thorough understanding of Australian culture. This is a unique opportunity to impact a global community.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in community development or related fields with a track record of impactful projects.
• Deep understanding of Australian culture and digital landscape.
• Strong communication skills and results-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Gain insights into the Australian market to identify challenges and opportunities.
• Develop and scale community engagement strategies.
• Work with cross-functional teams to execute community initiatives.

Skills

Community development

Project management

Growth operations

Communication

Job description

Overview

We are searching for a strategic community management and operations expert to join the International Community team and help grow Reddit outside of the US. As an integral part of the International Community team, this role plays a key role in helping Reddit realize its mission: bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world.

As the Senior Community Manager, you will be at the forefront of jumpstarting and fostering local communities. You will be an expert of the Australia market, proficient in English, and focused on proactive initiatives to build bridges with local volunteer moderators and innovate, iterate, refine, and scale our international consumer playbook. The insights derived from your relationships and experiments will help accelerate our growth in Australia.

This is a rare opportunity to join a new team at one of the most influential consumer products on the internet. If developing and proving out a community relations and growth playbook in close tandem with Product that unlocks the next hundreds of millions of global Redditors excites you, then you’ve found the right place!

Responsibilities

• Gain a deep understanding of the Australian market to identify user and local moderator challenges, and market opportunities.
• Iterate, innovate, and scale the consumer growth playbook by recognizing new opportunities, proposing bold ideas and programs, and aligning internal teams on new plans.
• Build strategic plans to cultivate, recruit, educate, and grow a local community of moderators (i.e., volunteers who develop, maintain, and shape the culture of local communities). Implement a conversion funnel designed to onboard power users and external creators, transforming them into active moderators.
• Communicate quantitative and qualitative insights to optimize and improve the international consumer growth playbook.
• Be obsessive about achieving aggressive goals and outcomes.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, set KPIs, and execute impactful community initiatives: leverage data to uncover community and moderator insights that will influence the direction of the local team in the market.
• Work cross-functionally with Product, Community, Engineering, Marketing, Safety, and BD.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of community development, project management, growth, operations, or product consulting experience with a track record of community-led projects that have driven business impact.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of Australian culture, including current events, politics, customs, traditions, language, topics of interest, and taboos.
• Nuanced comprehension of the digital landscape and the cultural intricacies inherent within it, including awareness of internet culture specific to Australia and an appreciation for the diverse cultural facets shaping contemporary society.
• Succinct and persuasive communicator: able to collaborate effectively across internal teams, local users, moderators, partners, content creators, influencers, etc.
• Results-obsessed: demonstrates outstanding execution and high attention to detail.
• Deep interest in developing and driving projects, framing issues and seeking solutions, testing hypotheses, and iterating on process improvements.

Bonus Points

• Experience being a power user on Reddit

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