Community Manager

"Le Wagon is ""quietly becoming a major coding bootcamp"", says TechCrunch. We bring programming skills and startup culture to non-tech people! Our main program is a 9-week long full-stack coding course which is very intensive and empowering for the participants. Our students are future web developers, start-up founders, project managers, and technical business-people. Altogether we are a global team of 150+ seasoned mentors and over 1,700 trainees in 12 countries and over 20 cities. In China, our audience and influence is growing and we need a passionate community manager to take good care of its future!"

Your role
- Your primary responsibility will be to grow our online and offline presence and help convert interested entrepreneurs into students
- Expand the education network of Le Wagon in Chengdu
- Build a pipeline of local and foreign prospective students
- Grow the pool of tech/digital professionals contributing to our mission in China
- Find and work with amazing spaces to hold public classes and workshops
- Secure deals to spread the word to the smartest local students
- Inspire people to learn to code manage our social channels and publish stories in both Chinese and English written by yourself or adapted from our global assets
- Coordinate stakeholders (places speakers participants and communication channels) to organize regular meetups
- Engage with followers and prospective and current students to make their learning experience fun and exciting
- Voice your opinion on everything that will bring value to the community!

What will be the challenges
- Chinese localization of operations while matching the culture of our global brand
- Explanation of the key value proposition and management of expectations
- Keeping up with the volume of meetings + follow-ups required to stay on top of things
- Entrepreneurs are night owls we meet them at night in events
- Our community is very engaged and will contact us constantly for quick Q&A opportunities and help
- Track and document all metrics contribute in our China playbook share best practices to other teams in China (Shanghai+)
- Focus on what matters: providing value to our community!
- You will have to test and fail often
- You will have to learn fast and adapt always...

What will be your goals
- Fill our next batches with participants of the highest profile
- Build a comprehensive editorial planning for our various channels relevant to Chengdu/China
- Localize all marketing assets
- Increase our WeChat follower base and readership
- Organize regular meetups

What you will learn
- How to change people's lives thanks to technology education
- How to scale a business 200% per year
- How to effectively communicate with tech entrepreneurs
- How to be a powerful negotiator
- How to be a good public speaker
- How to use Sketch Keynote Excel as a shifu

What benefits you will get out of it
- Work alongside and connect with seasoned Chinese and international entrepreneurs
- Connect share ideas and resources with our partners from all other locations we operate in: Shanghai Paris London Rio Montreal Tokyo...
- Meet dozens of entrepreneurs local and foreign every week in Chengdu
- Business trips (in China)!
- Remote work is acceptable
- Minimum 6 000 RMB salary per month (depending your experience and network)
- Yearly travel to for our global company retreat!! (5 days party in Europe)
- 4 weeks paid holidays
- Loads of human stories to share!
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