Company description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.
Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Overview: We are seeking a dynamic and passionate Online Community Manager to join the Customer Engagement team. As an Online Community Manager, you will be responsible for nurturing, growing, and engaging our online community across various channels in order to foster meaningful interactions and relationships.
Responsibilities:
Community Engagement:
Develop strategies to foster a vibrant online community atmosphere, including the potential addition of badging and gamification initiatives.
Initiate and moderate discussions, responding to comments and engaging with community members.
Encourage community participation and facilitate user-generated content initiatives.
Identify potential customer advocates for work with marketing and/or product.
Content Management:
Curate and create content that resonates with the community's interests and values, including varying content for different personas.
Coordinate with content creators, internal stakeholder teams, ensuring content aligns with community preferences.
Regularly update community channels with relevant information and resources.
Understand upcoming product release and successful use cases for user personas
Community Support:
Serve as a primary point of contact for community members, addressing inquiries and concerns.
Monitor community feedback and sentiment, providing insights to relevant teams.
Implement strategies to enhance the overall community experience.
Events and Initiatives:
Plan and execute online events, such as webinars, AMAs (Ask Me Anything), office hours, and live streams.
Collaborate with the Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLI) team, marketing, and partnerships teams to promote community events.
Measure the success of community initiatives and optimize strategies based on data-driven insights including aggressive KPIs
Community Advocacy:
Advocate for the community’s needs and preferences within the organization.
Work closely with product teams to communicate community feedback and influence product development.
Identify and empower community leaders and influencers, cultivating a network of brand advocates.
- Proven experience (2 years) as an Online Community Manager or similar role.
Deep understanding of online community dynamics and best practices.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
Ability to analyze community metrics and derive actionable insights.
Passion for building and nurturing communities around shared interests.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with the education industry and jargon
Experience with community platforms and tools (e.g., forums, Slack, Discord).
Background in customer support or user engagement roles.
Familiarity with SEO and content marketing principles.
Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values underpin everything we do.
Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.
Global Benefits
- Remote First Culture
- Health Care Coverage*
- Education Reimbursement*
- Competitive Paid Time Off
- 4 Self-Care Days per year
- National Holidays*
- 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
- Paid Volunteer Time*
- Charitable contribution match*
- Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
- Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
- Parental Leave*
- Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
- * varies by country
Seeing Beyond the Job Ad
At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!
Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
