Professor of Dark Arts

Coursera Coursera · Consumer · XYZ - Test · JTG - Test Department

This role is for an experienced online community builder to engage and develop Coursera's learner community. The ideal candidate is an empathetic leader and fantastic communicator who thrives on interaction with people, with strong analytical, interpersonal, and creative instincts. Responsibilities include developing community strategy, understanding and prioritizing community needs, engaging and moderating the community, fostering connections between members, tracking and reporting community metrics, and coordinating community moderators. Requires 3+ years of experience building and managing large, global online communities, with experience in building community for education or focused on generating content, and experience with Salesforce Service Cloud.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and refine the strategy to ensure the community grows and provides value to learners and to Coursera.
  2. Understand and prioritize community needs and collaborate with Product and Marketing to drive awareness of and engagement with the community.
  3. Engage with and moderate the community to build strong relationships and maintain a healthy, vibrant and interactive space at scale.
  4. Foster connections between community members and encourage them to support and guide one another. Nurture active members and encourage them to take a leadership role in supporting other learners in the community.
  5. Identify, track, and report key community activity, impact and health metrics. Use data to identify community trends and issues and identify improvements.

Skills

Required

  • Community strategy development
  • Community engagement and moderation
  • Community analytics and reporting
  • Stakeholder collaboration (Product, Marketing)
  • People management (Community Moderators)
  • Salesforce Service Cloud

Nice to have

  • Experience in education or content generation communities

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years experience building and managing large, global online communities in a fast-growing technology or education company
  • Experience in building community for education or focused on generating content
  • Experience building a community on Salesforce Service Cloud