Director, Social Engagement & Community Management

Connecticut, USA (Hybrid)

$147K/yr – $245K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the enterprise community program across strategy, governance, and measurement while leading a cross-functional team to drive engagement, brand trust, and business outcomes.

  • Define operating models and roadmaps
  • Lead governance, policies, and talent development
  • Translate signals into actionable insights and executive reporting

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop, evolve, and own the enterprise community management and social engagement strategy aligned to brand, marketing, and business priorities.
  • Build and maintain a multi-year engagement model and roadmap that identifies audiences, channels to drive discoverability and brand trust.
  • Define the operating model for how community works seamlessly with brand storytelling, social influencer marketing, and social intelligence work together to deliver on Lead-to-One promise and amplify positive moments and cultural relevance.
  • Establish annual and quarterly plans that support enterprise brand, business, and reputation goals.
  • Own community engagement policies, response playbooks, brand voice guardrails, and escalation protocols, including issue and crisis response.
  • Partner with Brand, Legal, Compliance, Public Affairs, and Communications to ensure engagement practices align with regulatory and enterprise standards.
  • Establish moderation standards, service-level agreements (SLAs), and quality assurance frameworks across in-house teams and agency partners.
  • Lead company-wide governance processes and best practices for community management and social care.
  • Lead, manage, coach, and inspire a team of community managers, care specialists, moderators, and analysts.
  • Develop talent strategies including recruitment, onboarding, coaching, retention, and succession planning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Business, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in social media, community management, digital engagement, customer care, or related disciplines.
  • 4+ years of direct people leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated experience building and scaling community or engagement programs within large, complex organizations.
  • Proven experience leading social issue management and crisis response.
  • Experience developing governance frameworks, policies, and playbooks.
  • Experience managing agencies, vendor relationships, and enterprise social technologies.

Preferred

  • Experience within healthcare, insurance, financial services, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industries.
  • Familiarity with community measurement frameworks and social intelligence methodologies.
  • Experience integrating social care and community management operating models.
  • Experience establishing or scaling a Center of Excellence.

Benefits

  • Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs.
  • We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
  • For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here .
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The Cigna Group

The Cigna Group is a global health company committed to creating a better future built on the vitality of every individual and every community. We relentlessly challenge ourselves to partner and innovate solutions for better health. The Cigna Group includes products and services marketed under Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services or its subsidiaries. The Cigna Group maintains sales capabilities in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has more than 190 million customer relationships around the world.

Founded in 1981
Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
22K employees (142 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$147K/yr – $245K/yr

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Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jul 2025
    Grant
  • Jun 2025
    Grant
  • Jun 2025
    Grant

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
342.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$21.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
26.4%
Direct
50%
Referral
13.9%
Social
8.8%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~21.6K

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Director, Social Engagement & Community Management

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