Engineering Director, Community Ela427

.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 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.What you will do:Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teamsHelp engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goalsEstablish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineeringInfluence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineersSpend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team inputWork from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external eventsCollaborate with the developer advocates and PR teams at Canonical to promote Ubuntu and related technologies via blogs and social mediaIdentifying relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with themWho you are:You have a long history and clear public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communitiesYou are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externallyYou have experience leading successful projects and teamsYou are an articulate communicatorYou are comfortable preparing and giving presentationsYou love technology and working with brilliant peopleYou follow industry trends and new technologiesYou understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you doYou have strong collaboration and influencing skillsYou are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountableYou value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivatedBS/BA or equivalent in Computer Science, Technical Communication, English, or a related fieldWe offer:Learning and Development opportunities and budgetAnnual compensation reviewRecognition rewardsAnnual leavePriority pass for travelFlexible working optionCanonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world-class software and services which meet the world's computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals