Location
:Silicon Valley San Francisco, CA 94101
Other Pay
:Plus Bonus Opportunity
Employee Type
:Full-Time
Industry
:Internet - ECommerce
Manages Others
:No
Job Type
:Media - Journalism - Newspaper
Education
:4 Year Degree
Experience
:At least 3 year(s)
Travel
:Up to 50%
Relocation Covered
:No
Post Date
:7/6/2012
Description
Dice.com, the leading global career
site for technology professionals, has established a new position of
Community Manager to develop, manage, and evangelize online discussions
and participation in them by Dice users.
Reporting to the Senior Editor of Dice News, this position will appeal to someone with a passion for social media, technology, online communication, blogging, and interacting with a wide range of very smart people. Our users include professionals in all aspects of tech, from software architects to game developers, big data experts, and operations specialists.
When you become a Dice team member, you join a company that values their loyal and enthusiastic employees by providing them a competitive salary, great benefits, including a 401(k) match, generous paid time off, casual dress, wellness program, fitness club reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, and more.
Keys to success in this position:
In this position you will:
Reporting to the Senior Editor of Dice News, this position will appeal to someone with a passion for social media, technology, online communication, blogging, and interacting with a wide range of very smart people. Our users include professionals in all aspects of tech, from software architects to game developers, big data experts, and operations specialists.
When you become a Dice team member, you join a company that values their loyal and enthusiastic employees by providing them a competitive salary, great benefits, including a 401(k) match, generous paid time off, casual dress, wellness program, fitness club reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, and more.
Keys to success in this position:
- Innovative thinking around content and audience engagement
- Comfort level with cutting edge technology topics and tools
- Understanding of interactions between website users, and best practices in moderating discussions
- Ability to manage remote freelancers and interact with in-house moderators and vendors
- Ability to develop strategies to increase user engagement on Dice
In this position you will:
- Take lead in daily oversight and moderation of discussion boards, including management of freelance and staff moderators
- Work with Dice editorial staff to ensure blogger participation in appropriate discussions
- Tracking and reporting
- Work with Marketing, Customer Support, and other departments to develop initiatives aimed at creating new offerings within the discussions and promoting their use
- Participate in discussions to solicit ideas from users and respond to the feedback
- Evangelize communities and discussions both within and outside of Dice
- Act as primary liaison with platform providers and other appropriate vendors
- Develop strategies and tactics to grow community size, activity, and retention
- Participate in editorial planning
RequirementsMinimum Qualifications:
- College degree in communications, multimedia, or related field
- Minimum of three years experience with online communities, forums, and social media
- Well-rounded understanding of IT industry and technology-based consumer products such as smartphones, tablets, video games, etc.
- Expertise with website discussion and management tools. Expertise with blogging and tools such as Wordpress preferred
- Experience in tracking and reporting
- Self-motivation and ability to work under deadline pressure
- Strong collaborative, project management, and communication skills
- Ability to travel
Dice is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Reference, Background, and Credit Checks Required.
