Meaning & use
community manager
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Meanings
nouncountable
A person whose job is to build and look after an online community for a brand, game, or organization.
Grammar: Countable: a community manager, two community managers.
Patterns
- work as a community manager
- the community manager for something
She works as a community manager for a mobile game company.
The community manager replied to angry players on the forum within an hour.
We are hiring a community manager to run our Discord server.
nounsingular
The role or position of managing a community, especially online.
Grammar: Used with 'the' to talk about the job or function rather than the person.
Patterns
- take on the community manager role
He took on the community manager role after the previous person left.
Word forms
| plural | community managers |
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Common combinations
- hire a community manager
- The startup plans to hire a community manager next quarter.
- community manager for a brand
- As community manager for the brand, she hosts weekly live chats.
- senior community manager
- After three years he was promoted to senior community manager.
- community manager role
- The community manager role involves a lot of writing.
Synonyms and how they differ
- social media manager
- Focuses more on posting content and running campaigns, while a community manager focuses on talking with members.
- moderator
- A moderator mainly enforces rules and removes bad posts; a community manager also builds relationships and strategy.
Word family
- community management noun
- The activity or job of running a community.
Commonly confused: community manager or community organizer?
community manager vs community organizer
A community organizer works with people in a physical neighborhood on social or political goals, not mainly online.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'community manager' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Community manager' is a job title, so 'works as a community manager for...' fits. Option 0 describes a volunteer role, not the job title. Options 2 and 3 use 'manager' in the general sense of someone in charge of a department or money, which is not what 'community manager' means.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “community manager”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.