Overview

GitHub helps companies, organizations, and groups of individuals succeed by allowing them to build better software, together. We are building the global platform for developer collaboration to accelerate human progress. We want our Community to be the Hub of GitHub!!!

About the Role: 

The GitHub Community is such an important part of who we are as a company. It’s a place where members build networks, learn from each other, give valuable insights to the company, and so much more. The community Strategy team’s focus is all about engaging the community, developing and launching new community programs, measuring the success of these programs, and doing it all at scale. We’re looking for a great Community Manager to help us nurture this amazing community.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Help execute on the community strategy, roadmap, and success metrics.
  • Moderate, listen and engage regularly with our amazing community members, providing them with any support and resources they need.
  • Constantly gather feedback from the community and bring those insights to the appropriate internal teams
  • Escalate and flag issues as needed to keep the community a trusted space
  • Help manage and execute a community content strategy.
  • Partner with Community PM’s to
    working cross functionally on community engagement strategies
  • Help plan and run community events throughout the year.
  • Measure, analyze, update and track community data.
  • Manage all internal and external community documentation.
  • Create community onboarding and offboarding processes.

What We’re Looking For: 

  • 2+ years in Community Management with experience
  • Passion about being a community and customer advocate. You understand why customer voices are so important
  • A strong communicator and writer
  • Being successful in this role will require you to excel at both internal and external communication.
  • Flexibility and adapting quickly when priorities change.
  • Experience working with a developer community.
  • An incredibly organized master multitasker.
  • Experience working with various online community platforms and tools.
  • Fantastic interpersonal skills, a great listener, and is extraordinarily empathetic. ● Willingness to go the extra mile to serve our customers.
  • Good technical understanding and can pick up new tools quickly.

Key Skills / Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing Communications or equivalent, MBA preferred
    3  or more years in customer service, market research, analysis or a technical discipline preferred
  • Experience working in a SaaS industry preferred
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to clearly communicate recommendations and solutions plainly with customers and stakeholders.
  • Ability to work across multiple organizations to identify and execute solutions
  • Ability to develop and implement creative solutions and influence others in their adoption.
  • Strong project management skills including an ability to manage cross-functional deliverables in a fast-paced environment

Who We Are:

GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come together—as individuals and in teams—to create the future of software and make a difference in the world.

Leadership Principles:

Customer Obsessed – Trust by Default – Ship to Learn – Own the Outcome – Growth Mindset – Global Product, Global Team – Anything is Possible – Practice Kindness

Why You Should Join:

At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We’ve designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote

We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We’ve designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we’ve built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.