Community Coordinator- Social Media

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$73K/yr – $88K/yrMid Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Own Bachan’s social community by actively engaging fans, surfacing trends, and coordinating creator programs to drive authentic connections and timely, platform-native content.

  • Build relationships with fans and identify opportunities beyond owned posts
  • Translate community feedback into content, marketing, and product insights
  • Support influencer/creator relations and content creation in collaboration with Marketing

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a daily voice of Bachan’s across social platforms, actively engaging with fans through comments, replies, direct messages, mentions, tags, and relevant conversations.
  • Build authentic relationships with consumers by creating interactions that feel personal, thoughtful, responsive, and unmistakably Bachan’s.
  • Identify opportunities to engage beyond Bachan’s owned posts by joining relevant cultural, culinary, creator, and community conversations.
  • Recognize highly engaged fans and community members and help deepen those relationships over time.
  • Help ensure consumer questions and concerns are acknowledged and appropriately routed to the right internal partners when additional support is needed.
  • Identify opportunities to create unexpected, memorable experiences for Bachan’s fans inspired by an Unreasonable Hospitality mindset.
  • Coordinate surprise-and-delight initiatives such as personalized responses, product gifting, fan recognition, celebrations, and other creative brand moments.
  • Look for the stories behind comments and interactions—not just the comments themselves—and identify moments where Bachan’s can show up in a meaningful way.
  • Partner with the broader Marketing team to turn standout community moments into opportunities for storytelling and content when appropriate.
  • Track initiatives and learnings to help the team understand what types of engagement most strongly build community and brand love.

Requirements

  • 1–3+ years of experience in social media, community management, influencer marketing, digital marketing, content creation, or a related field; relevant internship or hands-on brand experience may also be considered.
  • Deep familiarity with major social platforms and an active understanding of social and internet culture.
  • Strong written communication skills with the ability to adapt to and consistently represent a distinctive brand voice.
  • Natural instinct for engaging with people in a warm, creative, and authentic way.
  • Strong awareness of trends and ability to distinguish between what is simply popular and what is relevant for the Bachan’s brand.
  • Basic content creation capabilities, including comfort capturing photos and short-form video for social platforms.
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple ongoing conversations, relationships, and tasks.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where opportunities may emerge quickly and priorities can shift.
  • Experience with influencer/creator programs, social listening tools, community management platforms, or social analytics is a plus.
  • Passion for food, cooking, culture, community, and consumer brands strongly preferred.
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Bachan's

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Bachan’s is history and tradition, culture and family. Our mission is to Bring Family Together®. The Original Japanese Sauces was created from a multi-generational family recipe. Bachan’s was founded by Japanese American Justin Gill in 2013, and officially launched in 2019. We believe in a minimalistic and transparent approach to developing our products. Our family of sauces is cold-filled (not pasteurized), made without preservatives or flavorings, and we use the highest quality ingredients, because Our Ingredients Matter®.

Founded in 2015
Sebastopol, California, USA
43 employees (8 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Posted range

$73K/yr – $88K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Community Management median pay in the United States

$75K/yr

Most pay falls between $60K and $94K. Based on 1,015 salaries.

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Funding

Total Funding
$17M
Last Raise
$13M
Series A, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2022
    Series A • $13M
  • Sep 2021
    Series Unknown • $4M
  • May 2021
    Seed • $4M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
102.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46%
Direct
40.9%
Referral
6.3%
Social
6.2%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~43
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Community Coordinator- Social Media

Bachan's · Los Angeles, CA · On-site