Community and Communications Manager (Product and Technology) Location: Burlington or Vaughan, Ontario Canada, Montreal, Quebec (Hybrid/ Office/ Remote) Travel:Around 10 travel is expected Position Summary Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on Bentley software to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Together, we are advancing infrastructure for better quality of life. Today, Bentley employs 5,500 people, located across 42 global locations. We're hiring a Community and Communications Manager to lead the inspirational engagement and expert communities of 1,600+ colleagues in Bentley's Product, Technology and UX organization. This role reports to the Chief of Staff in the Office of the CTO. As a Community Manager, you will nurture and grow 5:10 expert:led 'Communities of Practice', ensuring their smooth operation through activities such as coaching speakers, developing content, scheduling calls, and maintaining distribution lists. Additionally, as colleague Communications lead, you will direct and execute internal Product and Technology communications, events, and all:hands calls, ensuring alignment and synchronization across functions. The role is split roughly 50:50 between Community and internal Communications aspects. Your Day to Day stylelist:style:type:disc: : Facilitating expert Community leaders to deliver impactful content, maximized reach and engagement, and managing associated administrative tasks. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Streamlining and improving Community tools and processes to ensure a seamless experience for users. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Creating sustainable content, guidelines, and frameworks to support thriving, fast:growing Communities. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Conducting competitive analysis to maintain a leading:edge experience in internal community engagement and strategy. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Collaborating with product, engineering, marketing, and other teams to foster staff participation in the Communities. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Once established in the role, pushing the bounds of the Community strategy to engage external experts as well as internal colleagues. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Research newsworthy items from across the organization, especially those that celebrate success in all corners of our global team. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Maintaining team intranets, Teams channels and other internally visible sources of content. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Drafting and proofing comms for Senior leaders (written, audio, visual : including video, slides). stylelist:style:type:disc: : Planning and maintaining a calendar and cadence of regular Comms, Events and All Hands for the Product and Technology organization. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Collecting feedback and listening for employee sentiment, and ensuring this is matched and addressed in comms. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Aligning with peers and colleagues in sister organizations across Bentley to amplify the power of Comms. What You Bring to The Team stylelist:style:type:disc: : 7:10+ years of working in software environment, which includes enterprise B2B SaaS experience. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Familiarity with large, complex software organizations. stylelist:style:type:disc: : 3:5 years of experience participating in and building communities (internal or external). We welcome both commercial and non:commercial experience. stylelist:style:type:disc: : Public speaking, blogging, content development, and event facilitation experience. stylelist:style:type