The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. The Linux Foundation has proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception.

The mission of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), hosted within the Linux Foundation, is to advance open source security for all by working collaboratively with upstream and existing communities. Our projects and initiatives are focused on securing the open source supply chain and promoting secure development best practices for everyone. We use our Technical Vision and our Values to guide discussion, decision making, and delivery for all our programs. This job is specific to the OpenSSF, but your employer will be the Linux Foundation.

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to help us support our growing community of developers and other kinds of technical contributors, upstream maintainers, downstream end-users, and other community participants. This role will work alongside the OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council to help ensure that they can efficiently and effectively oversee and ensure the quality of the technical activities within the broader community. 

Job Role And Responsibilities

As part of the OpenSSF team, you’ll work with other OpenSSF and Linux Foundation staff, governing board members, and the larger OpenSSF community to keep the activities of the community well organized. You’ll help ensure the communication channels and discovery tools are effective for our most active contributors, and comprehensible to new participants. Your work will drive improved communication and efficiency across the organization’s many working groups, projects, member organizations, and strategic partnerships.

Key responsibilities include:

• Setting up new working groups and logistics (e.g. calendar, mailing lists, etc)
• Collecting project / working group reports, taking meeting minutes, posting meeting recordings, etc
• Creating and maintaining measurement systems against organization OKRs and measuring progress
• Processing of funds approved by the TAC for various initiatives, including seeking additional GB approval if necessary
• Handling new project donations to the OpenSSF foundation, including license checks, legal review, etc
• Maximizing the use of internal Linux Foundation tools for supporting these communities and generating reports on their activity.

• Invest specific attention into growing the diversity (geographic, gender/identity, race, age, among others) of the OpenSSF community, 

• Ensuring that Linux Foundation and OpenSSF policies are adhered to, and best practices are adopted.

Required Skills

• Oral and written communication skills: you write down action items, follow up with meeting notes, and have a penchant for documenting process and goals
• Cooperative leadership skills: you understand the nuances required when working with volunteers, and that our mandate is to serve
• Problem solving skills: you aren’t afraid of a little ambiguity, a hard problem, or a sticky situation and work productively to resolve issues
• Demonstrated ability to understand, operate, and clearly communicate in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Experience working with open source communities: you understand the open source ecosystem and the challenges and opportunities it faces

• Comfort with frequent travel (~2x per month) including travel to Asia and/or Europe 4-6 times a year.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers, and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires world-class talent.  We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open-source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on being able to work closely together while not being tied to an office. We offer exceptional benefits - e.g., top of the line healthcare plans, unlimited PTO, and 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.