ABOUT XPRIZE

XPRIZE competitions change the world for the better by accelerating innovation life cycles, catalyzing markets, and energizing stakeholders.  

The XPRIZE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to inspiring and incentivizing breakthroughs to the most critical challenges facing humanity. Since its beginning in 1994, the Foundation has been building and continues to build a vision of hope and abundance for humanity’s future by harnessing the power of innovators, technology, and resources.  

Through incentive prize competitions, XPRIZE enables people to create bold and transformative solutions that are scalable and drive real impact. XPRIZE competitions positively impact both the marketplace and humanity by addressing the market failures that have prevented significant breakthroughs across multiple sectors.  

An XPRIZE… 

sets an audacious but achievable goal that aims to overcome challenges deemed impossible. It tackles some of humanity's most pressing issues by redefining what is achievable and pushing the boundaries of human potential.  

defines and addresses a clear problem through extensive research, a design sprint, and a competition that catalyzes the development of the next breakthroughs to put humanity on the path toward a preferred future state for all. The desired outcome from an XPRIZE is clear and measurable, and the rules of the competition are transparent and easily understood.  

democratizes innovation by encouraging expert and nonexpert participation and multidisciplinary collaboration.  

catalyzes markets and revitalizes stagnant industries by increasing awareness of market failures and accelerating innovations to address them.  

is highly leveraged, with competing teams attracting and mobilizing investment capital, partner support, and new members in pursuit of the prize. Philanthropic dollars are thus magnified in support of a solution.  

Our first XPRIZE, the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight, spurred an industry and created exponential breakthroughs. Since then we have provided over $140 million in incentives through these competitions. Each prize has created an industry-changing technology that brings us closer to a better, safer, more sustainable world.  

The use of incentive competitions, or prizes, to accelerate innovation goes back over 300 years, to when the British Admiralty launched the Longitude Prize in 1714 to find a better way to navigate our seas. In the years since, several well-known innovations have resulted from incentive competitions, including canning as a form of food preservation (a competition launched by Napoleon in 1795), modern plastics (the Billiard Ball Prize, 1863) and commercial aviation (the Orteig Prize, 1919).  

This is more than a job to us. When you work at XPRIZE, you’re making a positive impact on some of the biggest challenges facing our world. Whether you’re working in prize design or development, marketing and communications, stakeholder relations, business operations or any other department, you’re playing a critical role in turning the impossible into the possible.

Role Description

The Community Manager will be the hands-on owner of the XPRIZE digital platforms and responsible for the complete day-to-day execution, analysis, and optimization of the editorial calendar.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing and executing social and community editorial calendars across digital channels, including Social, YouTube, Podcasts, Email and Blog
• Working with Digital and PR team to develop highly engaging social content for various campaigns, and ensuring all programming is cohesive across all channels
• Partnering with agencies and internal creative team (graphic design, web, video production) to develop and produce content across various platforms
• Creating lightweight social content, including writing post copy for social channels, responding to comments on owned channels, producing simple imagery using existing templates, engaging with other relevant brands/influencer channels, and live-posting from brand events/experiences
• Weekly analysis of social & community KPI’s with recommendations on areas for course correction, as well as acting as lead advisor on the tools we need for the monitoring and execution of digital strategy
• Identifying key social influencers, bloggers, networks, and forums, according to our verticals and marketing objectives, with whom we should build ongoing partnerships and engagement

Requirements

• 2-4 years' experience in social media and/or community management at an agency or brand
• Expertise in overseeing a multi-platform content stream
• Experience with content publishing, social listening, and analytics tools 
• Keen sense of digital storytelling and writing ability
• Able to work with agencies across multiple simultaneous campaigns
• Demonstrated experience nurturing and growing a fan base
• Hands-on working style, with exceptional attention to detail
• Self-motivated team member who takes initiative with a positive, can-do attitude

Come change the world with us. 

XPRIZE Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to having a truly inclusive workforce. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, age, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress, appearance, or behavior.