Community Manager - French speaker (contract)
WFA Digital Insight
Reddit’s International Community team is building a foothold in France, and they need a bilingual strategist who can turn volunteer moderators into a self‑sustaining ecosystem. Unlike generic community roles, this position sits inside the Product organization, meaning decisions will directly influence the platform’s growth playbook. The job blends market research, moderator recruitment, conflict mediation, and data‑driven experimentation, all while reporting cross‑functionally with engineering, safety and business development. Candidates must navigate French cultural nuances, translate them into actionable product insights, and push aggressive growth targets. Success hinges on the ability to marry qualitative community feedback with hard metrics, shaping a playbook that could scale to other regions.
Job Description
This contract engagement is open to candidates based in the UK or Ireland.
As the Community Manager, you will be at the forefront of jumpstarting and fostering local communities. You will be an expert of the French market, proficient in English and French, 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 the market.
Required Qualifications:
- Gain a deep understanding of the market to identify user and local moderator challenges, and market opportunities.
- Iterate, innovate, and scale the consumer growth playbook by recognizing new opportunities, suggesting bold ideas and programs, and persuading internal teams to align 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 teams.
- 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 French 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 France and an appreciation for the diverse cultural facets shaping contemporary French 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.
- Proficiency in French & English.
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Reddit is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse communities we serve. Reddit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during the interview process, please let your recruiter know.
How to Stand Out
- Highlight any prior experience managing volunteer moderators or community volunteers, especially in French‑language spaces.
- Prepare a short case study showing how you turned community feedback into a product change or growth metric.
- Demonstrate fluency in both French and English during the interview; consider a brief live translation exercise.
- Familiarize yourself with Reddit’s moderation tools and bring concrete ideas on how to improve moderator onboarding.
- Emphasize data‑driven decision‑making; have examples of dashboards or KPI frameworks you built.
- Ask about the contract length, renewal criteria and any performance‑based bonuses during salary discussions.
- Watch for vague promises about “unlimited” perks; request clarification on remote stipend amounts and equipment provisions.
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