Engineering Director, Community

10 hours ago


San Bernardino, California, United States Canonical - Jobs Full time
Job Description

At Canonical, we're seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Director of Community to join our team. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will play a critical role in growing community engagement and processes across all of engineering.

This is a unique opportunity to define what building the next generation of open source community looks like. You will be responsible for assisting various teams at Canonical in broadening their community engagement activities, ensuring that all engineering teams make community an important aspect of how they do what they do.

You will provide assistance to new and existing contributors seeking to get involved or expand their role, and connect community contributors with mentors. You will also organize cross-team participation in community events and mentoring.

Outside of those responsibilities, you will assist the Ubuntu community team in ensuring community processes are high quality and consistently implemented.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
  • Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
  • Establish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineering
  • Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
  • Spend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input
  • Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
  • Collaborate with the developer advocates and PR teams at Canonical to promote Ubuntu and related technologies via blogs and social media
  • Identifying relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them

Requirements:

  • You have a long history and clear public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
  • You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
  • You have experience leading successful projects and teams
  • You are an articulate communicator
  • You are comfortable preparing and giving presentations
  • You love technology and working with brilliant people
  • You follow industry trends and new technologies
  • You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
  • You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  • You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
  • BS/BA or equivalent in Computer Science, Technical Communication, English, or a related field

What We Offer:

  • Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004
  • Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
  • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.​ Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.



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