Community Manager
Bloom Equity Partners · Remote · remote · Posted 27d ago
Undisclosed2–6 yrsfulltimeSourced from
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About this role
Converts a support relationship into a product relationship. State library association listservs, forums, and conferences Present, sponsor sessions, build relationships with state library agencies. State-level networks drive both retention and referral in this market. In-product and email programs Onboarding tracks, adoption nudges, module education, seasonal campaigns. The only way to touch a thousand libraries without a thousand calls. Webinars, recordings, and self-serve content Build a library of short, practical, workflow-specific material. Answers the same question once instead of two hundred times. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Community ownership and engagement
- Build and own the Apollo and VERSO customer communities - where they exist today, and where they need to be created.
- Show up where librarians are already talking, as a credible participant rather than a vendor voice, and become the recognized Soutron face in those venues.
- Run a standing program calendar: release walkthroughs, office hours, feature clinics, and peer showcases.
- Surface and connect customers to each other. Peer proof moves this market more than anything we say ourselves.
- Develop references, case studies, and advocates in partnership with Marketing.
- Be the customer-facing owner for your assigned product line or lines - the person the base knows by name and the internal person who knows the base best.
- Know your product properly: not just what it does, but how a librarian uses it on a Tuesday morning.
- Own release communication and education for your product line end to end.
- Represent your line internally to Product, Support, and Engineering with evidence rather than anecdote.
- Design and run one-to-many programs that reach the whole base rather than a managed tier: onboarding tracks, adoption campaigns, in-product messaging, and email sequences.
- Segment the base by product, size, tenure, and module penetration, and target programs accordingly.
- Use automation deliberately, so coverage does not scale with headcount.
- Kill programs that do not work and say why.
- Grow module attach across the base - patron notification, events and room booking, acquisitions, and adjacent modules - against a defined penetration target.
- Drive adoption of the features that correlate with retention and expansion, and establish which those are.
- Source and qualify SHAREit resource-sharing and interlibrary loan interest inside the Apollo base, and hand shaped opportunities to Inside Sales to close.
- Be accountable for net revenue retention on the base as an outcome, delivered through engagement and attach rather than through individual renewal negotiation.
- Stand up a lightweight, automation-first health and engagement view for the base. Today there is no health scoring, no NPS or CSAT program, and no cohort retention reporting.
- Launch NPS or CSAT on a cadence with a closed loop, sized for a base this large - not a manual survey program.
- Flag at-risk accounts to Renewals and Sales with the context they need; you spot the signal, they run the commercial play.
- Quantify and escalate systemic issues: defect patterns, release quality, documentation gaps, and long-standing feature requests.
- Fluent in your product line and able to run an unassisted walkthrough for a library director.
- A mapped inventory of where this base actually congregates online and offline, with a recommendation on which venues to invest in and which to ignore.
- An active, credible presence established in at least [three] of them.
- A published program calendar for the next two quarters.
- A baseline you can defend: module penetration, engagement reach, and whatever health signal is obtainable from existing data.
- A running program cadence - release education, office hours, and onboarding track - with measured participation.
- A user community with genuine peer-to-peer activity, not just broadcast.
- Module attach improved against the day-one baseline, with the improvement attributable to specific programs.
- [X] qualified expansion or cross-sell opportunities handed to Inside Sales.
- NPS or CSAT running on a cadence with a first read the business can act on.
- Net revenue retention on the base durably above its entry level, with the drivers identified and repeatable.
- A community and program model a second person could be hired into without redesign.
- Measurable engagement reach across the majority of the base.
- A reference library and an advocate network that Sales and Marketing actively use.
- Systemic product and support issues surfaced with evidence and materially reduced.
- Three to five years in customer success, community management, customer marketing, or customer education in B2B SaaS, in a scaled or digital model covering hundreds of accounts - not exclusively named-account work.
- Demonstrated experience building or running a customer community: forums, user groups, social channels, or peer programs. You can point to something you built and how it grew.
- Experience designing one-to-many programs - webinars, onboarding tracks, email or in-product campaigns - with measured results.
- Strong written communication and a public voice. Most of your contact with this base will be written, one-to-many, and visible.
- Comfortable building a view from raw data: CRM exports, product usage, support history.
- Commercial literacy - you understand that engagement is the mechanism and adoption and attach are the outcome.
- MLIS, librarian, or library operations background. Someone who can talk to librarians as a peer has a genuine advantage in this seat, and we will weight it heavily.
- Direct experience with an ILS or library services platform - Apollo, VERSO, Polaris, Sierra, Symphony, Koha, Atriuum, Alexandria, Destiny, or similar.
- Experience with public-sector or institutional customers on annual budget cycles.
- Experience running an annual user conference or a regional user group program.
- Experience in a business integrating an acquisition, across two products with two inherited service models.
- Community instinct: naturally builds relationships at scale and enjoys it. Reaches for a program or a group thread before reaching for a calendar invite.
- Credibility with practitioners: librarians can tell within five minutes whether someone has bothered to learn their world. This person has, or obviously will.
- Scaled thinking: instinctively asks how a play reaches a thousand libraries, not one.
- Builds the missing structure: ships a rough first version and improves it rather than waiting for tooling or permission.
- Commercial ownership: treats attach and retention as numbers they carry, not outcomes that happen to them.
- Data-driven: can say which signal actually predicts adoption or churn in this base, and why.
- Public voice: writes and presents well enough to represent the company in a room full of customers, unsupervised.
- Intellectual honesty: reports the program that failed and the metric that went the wrong way, without being asked.
- Ambiguity and judgment: effective where processes, metrics, and ownership are not fully defined. Sound decisions on incomplete information.
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