The Zephyr Project is a Linux Foundation hosted Collaboration Project. It’s an open source collaborative effort uniting developers and users in building a best-in-class small, scalable, real-time operating system (RTOS) optimized for resource-constrained devices, across multiple architectures.

The Zephyr Project (Zephyr) is seeking a Developer Advocate and Documentation Manager to help grow and support the global Zephyr ecosystem.

Ideally, you have experience helping new developers become productive in a project by providing effective documentation,  being able to explain the new technical features of a project,  evangelize the project to developer communities and meetups, getting volunteers participating in tasks beyond code development, and managing communities.  You value the power of a diverse human network to sustain and grow technology communities, and you foster building connections between people.  You look at a long-term, healthy global community of developers and others as a meaningful legacy which you are profoundly motivated to build.

Responsibilities

• You will be a key member of the Zephyr/LF staff working closely with project community members along with Zephyr technical and marketing teams. 

• You will help identify, cultivate and promote work being built by the community. 

• You will also play a key role in gathering and sharing the needs of the broader user community with Zephyr staff and members.

• Coordinate project documentation activities and identify areas requiring documentation, tutorials and demos and work with maintainers to fill the gaps

• Keep consistency between different guides.

• Help update and improve the stylistic and other guidelines for future doc contributions to Zephyr.

• Technical skills: You are hands-on with Zephyr and Embedded technologies

• Speaking skills: You have experience giving presentations and love crafting presentations for a specific audience, from developers to the C suite.

• Advocacy skills: You can act as a champion for the needs of the Zephyr project

• Writing skills: You have written articles, case studies, books and blog posts showcasing your technical acumen.

• Experience writing technical documentation and familiarity with the concept of public APIs and API specifications and experience with producing documentation in “ReStructured Text” (RST) and using tools for document generation.

• Organizational skills:  You can help organize the community meetup and track key metrics, and coordinate translation activities.

• ​​Have a track record of engaging and growing digital communities with very active participants

• Willing to shift schedules to accommodate the challenges presented by working with colleagues and members across the globe!

• Able to travel, including internationally, several times a year to attend events once conditions permit again.

• You have 5+ years of experience in open source engineering, community management, product management or sales engineering.

• Experience working with open source projects and communities.

• Ideal: you have “influencer” status in the embedded community. When you talk, people listen.

• You are an open source pragmatist at heart!

Tips for Success

• We would encourage candidates to review the current Zephyr documentation, and be prepared to speak to how you would go about building upon / improving it.

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