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  • Posted: May 5, 2023
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Canonical is a unique tech company - global, remote-first, open source, with 700 professionals across 50 countries - we want to be the world's best, not biggest, global software company.
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    Engineering Director, Community

    About The Job

    Summary:

    • As the Engineering Director of Community you will have a broad impact and responsibility for growing community engagement and processes across all of engineering.
    • If you want to define what building the next generation of open source community looks like, this is the role for you.
    • You will be responsible for assisting various teams at Canonical in broadening their community engagement activities. 
    • You will ensure that all engineering teams make community an important aspect of how they do what they do. 
    • You'll provide assistance to new and existing contributors seeking to get involved or expand their role, and connect community contributors with mentors. 
    • You will organise 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.

    What You Will Do:

    • 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.

    Who You Are:

    • 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

    We Offer:

    • Learning and Development opportunities and budget
    • Annual compensation review
    • Recognition rewards
    • Annual leave
    • Priority pass for travel
    • Flexible working option

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Canonical Ghana on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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