Community manager’s professional profile evolution along the decade 2009-2018

Abstract

The academic major of community manager is scarcely present in the curricula of Communication degrees, despite the growing importance of social media as a source of employment and the fact that 75% of the job offers that include community manager tasks have a profile that is exclusive and different from those of other jobs in the digital area. Based on a sample of 731 employment offers with community manager tasks published in domestika.org, the main job portal specializing in this sector, an analysis of this professional profile has been made during the decade 2009-2018. The management of social media is no longer the sole domain of programmers and web designers. In fact, this position has experienced a transformation into a professional Communication profile, and each year more competencies and skills are demanded of the community manager, yet within a context of greater job instability. Furthermore, this position seems to be evolving toward the management of influencers.