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About this role

Senior Community Manager

Team: Community

Location: Flexible / Remote

Reporting to: VP of Community

Role Overview

Rwazi’s Community function represents the human surface area of the company — contributors, mappers, enterprise clients, and ecosystem partners.

The Senior Community Manager owns ecosystem strategy.

This role defines how these groups connect, interact, and reinforce one another within the broader Rwazi network.

Community at this level is not messaging.

It is network architecture.

The Senior Community Manager ensures Rwazi’s ecosystem compounds in trust, density, and strategic value over time.

Core Mandate

The Senior Community Manager is accountable for:

Designing the structure of Rwazi’s ecosystem
Strengthening relationships across users, mappers, clients, and partners
Creating cross-node interaction within the network
Increasing ecosystem resilience and loyalty
Protecting long-term trust capital

This role builds durable relational infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Ecosystem Architecture
Define how contributors, enterprise users, and partners interact
Design structured engagement models across stakeholder groups
Create pathways for collaboration and shared value
Reduce ecosystem fragmentation
Multi-Stakeholder Relationship Strategy
Maintain strong relationships across core ecosystem segments
Identify trust gaps or sentiment risk early
Develop structured communication strategies per segment
Balance enterprise professionalism with grassroots authenticity
Community-to-Product Feedback Loops
Surface structured ecosystem insights to Product and Leadership
Identify recurring friction patterns across stakeholders
Translate ecosystem signals into strategic adjustments
Identity & Narrative Stewardship
Strengthen Rwazi’s identity within its network
Develop rituals, recognition systems, and shared milestones
Protect tone, positioning, and relational clarity
Strategic Expansion Support
Support VP of Community in scaling ecosystem footprint
Evaluate new market or segment entry from a network perspective
Identify ecosystem-driven growth opportunities
Role Impact
Strong performance results in:
Higher ecosystem cohesion
Increased stakeholder loyalty
Stronger cross-network referrals
Reduced churn across contributors and clients
Greater long-term defensibility
This role strengthens Rwazi’s human moat.
What This Role Is Not
Not delivery operations
Not reactive support
Not transactional messaging
Not community engagement for engagement’s sake
This role requires structured ecosystem thinking.
Qualifications and Profile
We are looking for individuals who demonstrate:
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6–10+ years in community, ecosystem, or network leadership roles
Experience managing multi-sided platforms (marketplace, SaaS, or distributed networks)
Strong relationship-building ability across different stakeholder types
Strategic thinking around network effects
Analytical comfort with retention, density, and ecosystem health metrics
Executive communication clarity
Candidates may come from marketplace ecosystems, enterprise SaaS community leadership, or multi-stakeholder platforms.
Cultural Fit
We value leaders who:

- Think long-term about trust capital

Balance warmth with strategic discipline
Operate without ego but with authority

- Care about ecosystem integrity

Prefer durable systems over reactive fixes

How Candidates Are Evaluated

Candidates are evaluated based on:

Their ability to design and scale ecosystem structures
Evidence of strengthening multi-sided networks
Clarity in handling stakeholder complexity
Structured thinking around community health metrics
Strategic maturity in managing trust across groups

Summary

The Senior Community Manager leads the design and strengthening of Rwazi’s ecosystem across users, mappers, enterprise clients, and partners.

This role ensures that Rwazi’s human network compounds in value — becoming a durable competitive advantage over time.