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Reddit is seeking a French-speaking Strategic Community Specialist to grow and support local moderator communities in France. The contractor will develop community-growth programs, recruit and educate moderators, mediate issues, and turn market insights into scalable initiatives. The role combines community operations, growth experimentation, analytics, and close collaboration with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Safety, and Business Development. Candidates need at least five years of relevant experience, deep knowledge of French digital culture, strong English skills, and UK- or Ireland-based availability.
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I would begin with structured listening sessions to understand moderator goals, pain points, and concerns before proposing solutions. I would communicate transparently about constraints, follow through on commitments, and create regular feedback loops so moderators can see how their input affects decisions.
I would identify high-potential French communities with sustained user activity but limited moderation capacity, then test targeted outreach, onboarding content, and peer-led education sessions. I would measure conversion from outreach to application, activation, retention, and community health indicators, then scale the highest-performing approach.
I would pair dashboards tracking engagement, moderator activation, retention, and funnel conversion with recurring interviews and thematic feedback analysis. Quantitative signals show where performance is changing, while qualitative evidence explains why and identifies interventions worth testing.
I would first clarify the facts, desired outcomes, and applicable policies with both sides. I would facilitate a respectful discussion focused on shared community-health goals, document agreed actions, and escalate only when policy, safety, or decision authority requires it.
I would frame the initiative around shared business and product outcomes, supported by market evidence, user insights, and a concise experiment plan. By defining ownership, expected impact, required effort, and measurable success criteria, I can make alignment and prioritization easier for partner teams.
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com.
We are searching for a strategic community management and operations expert to join the International Community team and help grow outside of the US. As an integral part of the Product organization, the International Community team plays a key role in helping team realize its mission: bringing community and belonging to everyone in the world.
As the Strategic Community Specialist, 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 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 France.
This is a rare opportunity to join a new team at one of the most influential consumer products on the internet. If developing and proving out a community relations and growth playbook in close tandem with Product that unlocks the next hundreds of millions of global users excites you, then you’ve found the right place!
Responsibilities:
- Gain a deep understanding of the market and specialized knowledge to identify user and moderator pain points, competitors, and market opportunities.
- Cultivate, recruit, educate, and grow a local community of moderators (i.e., the volunteers who are developing, maintaining, and crafting the culture of local communities) and implement a conversion funnel to onboard external creators and local users to turn them into active moderators.
- Be a public face with our local volunteer moderators to build trust and drive engagement in local communities, mediating conflicts and helping drive solutions.
- 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.
- Communicate quantitative and qualitative insights to optimize and improve the international consumer growth playbook.
- Be obsessive about achieving aggressive goals and outcomes.
- Run reports, build dashboards, analyze data, set KPIs, and execute impactful community initiatives: leverage data to uncover community and moderator insights that will influence the direction of your market pod.
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Community, Engineering, Marketing, Safety, and BD teams.
What We Can Expect From You:
- 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 French culture, including current events, politics, customs, traditions, language, topics of interest, taboos, etc.
- Nuanced comprehension of the digital landscape and the cultural intricacies inherent within it. This includes awareness of internet culture specific to France, as well as a deep appreciation for the diverse cultural facets shaping contemporary French society.
- Succinct and persuasive communicator: collaborate effectively across internal teams, local users, moderators, partners, content creators, influencers, etc.
- Results-obsessed: 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 English and based in the UK or Ireland
In select roles and locations, the interviews will be recorded, transcribed and summarized by artificial intelligence (AI). You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
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