Location: Chicago
Online Community Manager (Full time)
We’re building an exciting and innovative social networking site backed by PEAK6 Investments, an industry leader in the investment arena, and led by a nationally known entrepreneur and financial commentator. Do you live in and on the blogosphere? Do you have a history of building online communities? We are looking for your Web2.0 talents Won’t you please join us in our ‘start-up’ environment as we build an online social networking site dedicated to the passions everyone loves in everyday life.
Responsibilities:
- Interact, engage, stimulate and take the lead with our online community via blogging, private messaging, blog comments and discussion boards etc.
- Use already established social media connections to the blogosphere to recruit and foster other bloggers for relevant content as needed.
- Mange a team of bloggers across a varied work matrix (in-house, on-call, tele-commute etc).
- Define guidelines, recommendations, best practices and procedures related to the community.
- Be the face of the community across the social graph and help manage the social relationship of the community on the web.
- Serve as a point of contact and help solve any customer service issues within the community.
- Increase community membership, awareness and participation to create a thriving online community.
- Use already established social media connections to promote the community.
- Identify and recruit influencers, evangelists and trends within the community and conduct evangelization efforts online and offline
- Establish metrics and provide tracking to communicate and validate community interaction
- Assist in social media marketing campaigns.
Requirements:
- 3+ years online community management
- 3+ years of verifiable community contributions (blogging, discussion posts, etc.).
- Should be well versed and have hands on experience with social media sites and networks (Facebook, MySpace, dig, reddit, Newsvine, technorati, Friendfeed etc.
- Know what twitter is and ‘get it’.
- Referenceable experience managing in-house writers and coordinating external bloggers/contributors.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Established extensive or rich blogosphere and general professional social network connections
- Creative, outgoing, friendly team player and builder
- Have a BA/BS degree
Pluses include:
- SEO knowledge and experience
- Personal finance and investing knowledge.
- Web2.0PR, marketing and advertising knowledge or experience
Send us
- Your resume
- A cover letter including salary requirement and telling us why you’re our community manager.
- 3 websites and 5 blogs you frequent the most
- Added bonus: Links to your profiles, your blog link or sample writing
Location
- Chicago, IL USA (
Loop)
We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
Let us hear from you: Jobs@PEAK6.com
As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.