Vertex Marketing · Overseas Community Operations
Reddit community operations for brands going global.
An overseas community operations internship at Vertex Marketing: community entry strategy, native English content, and data-driven iteration across 15+ communities, helping Chinese brands be seen and trusted by the world.
Context
Over the past decade, "Made in China" has been turning into "brands from China." More and more Chinese companies are building sustainable brand equity overseas, and communities are where a brand earns the trust of real users. People discuss products, share experiences, and shape each other's decisions there in ways no ad campaign can replace.
I joined a full-service marketing agency serving leading Chinese brands expanding globally, with clients like DJI, Insta360, and Anker. My account-operations team was the foundation of that work: we built, ran, and kept healthy the community content assets behind every campaign. It was my first look at the whole chain, from a brand's overseas goals to community content on the ground, and user feedback flowing back into strategy.
What I did
My work ran across content strategy, audience operations, and data. I ran community entry strategies for brand projects, studying each community's rules, tone, and sentiment before designing an account's positioning and content approach. At peak I managed 18 account onboarding cycles in parallel and kept every project on schedule.
Beyond client projects, I maintained a content matrix spanning 15+ vertical communities, from consumer tech and smart home to gaming, finance, food & drink, parenting, mental health, and careers. Each community has its own rules and preferences: finance wants precision, lifestyle wants warmth, parenting wants genuine empathy. The core skill is not writing English; it's speaking the way each audience speaks.
How I worked
I treated every community as its own audience. Before writing anything, I read the subreddit's rules and the posts already doing well, so my content added to the conversation instead of cluttering it. I wrote native English for US-based audiences and kept adjusting it: reading user sentiment, following discussion trends, and managing the safety boundaries of brand mentions, staying brand-friendly without inviting negative engagement. When the platform's rules or algorithm shifted, I adapted the content and the timing.
Data
I kept a data record for everything I published: impressions, upvotes, comments, upvote ratio, and audience geography. I also completed asset audits for 5 representative accounts, covering positioning, content structure, and top-performing posts. Those numbers became a verifiable way to evaluate my work, and they taught me to let data, not instinct, decide what to publish next.
Building tools
Repetition pushed me to build. I built an AI-assisted content workflow covering ideation, drafting, and quality checks that cut drafting time by roughly 40%, while baking in checks for naturalness, factual grounding, and brand boundaries. I presented the workflow's design and usage to company leadership and the AI engineering team, and the optimization was approved and is now being piloted. I also put together a daily work-summary dashboard that turned real content-performance data into something measurable.
Numbers
| Accounts | 5 accounts |
|---|---|
| Account history | 15,433 cumulative Karma |
| Contributions | 472 cumulative contributions |
| Visible views | 793K views across 15 view-visible posts |
| Engagement | 3,548 upvotes and 482 comments across 16 posts |
| Single-post peak | 406K views / 891 upvotes / 90 comments / 100% upvote ratio |
| Audience | 91.7% highest observed U.S. audience share |
| Drafting speed | About 40% faster with the AI-assisted workflow |
| Community coverage | At least 15 communities |
Every deliverable was on time, with zero major content violations and no account assets lost.
Community
The work spans broad-interest and vertical communities. I adapted research, content, and interaction to each subreddit's rules and audience language, and took part in the early setup of an official brand community from zero.
- Consumer technology
- Smart home
- Gaming
- Programming
- Finance
- Food & drink
- Parenting
- Mental health
- Relationships
- Careers