Engineering Director of Community

2 days ago


Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Canonical Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Director of Community to join our team at Canonical. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will play a critical role in growing community engagement and processes across all of engineering.

Your primary responsibility will be to assist 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 also be responsible for organizing cross-team participation in community events and mentoring. Outside of these 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 to establish and achieve community engagement goals
  • Help engineering teams 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
  • Identify relevant influencers and devise plans on how to effectively engage with them
Requirements
  • A long history and clear public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
  • Ability to represent Canonical / Ubuntu externally
  • Experience leading successful projects and teams
  • Articulate communication skills
  • Comfortable preparing and giving presentations
  • Love for technology and working with brilliant people
  • Follow industry trends and new technologies
  • Understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
  • Strong collaboration and influencing skills
  • Curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
  • 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
About Canonical

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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