Canonical Engineering Director, Community Jobs in Kenya

Canonical Engineering Director, Community Jobs in Kenya

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

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Canonical Engineering Director, Community Jobs in Kenya

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