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 Community Manager to help us grow and support our OpenSSF 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, OpenSSF and LF Staff, and other supporting individuals to grow the user and technical community around the OpenSSF.

As part of the OpenSSF team, you’ll work with other OpenSSF and Linux Foundation staff, and the larger OpenSSF community, to develop and execute strategies for recruiting new participants (users, expert users, external maintainers, contributors, and eventually core maintainers) into the open source community at OpenSSF.

Key responsibilities include:

• Organizing OpenSSF community events to raise awareness among open source developers and handling logistics for participation in external high-impact events (e.g. project events like Kubecon, language conferences like PyCon, hacker events like DEFCON, and broader technology or security events like Open Source Summit or FOSDEM)

• Analyzing the contribution pathways, engagement styles, meeting management practices, and other elements of the developer/contributor experience at the OpenSSF and optimizing them to ensure both active full-time contributors and new or part-time contributors can have a delightful experience and as few barriers to quality contribution as possible.

• Participate in many of the working group video and face to face meetings, follow all the mailing lists and Slack channels, and generally monitor all communication flows within the community to ensure practices are followed, people are collaborating more than they are debating, and that tensions or interpersonal issues can be identified early and addressed as appropriate.

• Work with the community to define useful measures of engagement, so that objectives and measurable targets can be set for improved community engagement.

• Documenting the processes, assumptions, decisions, insights or wish list items from the community, often using Markdown files in the OpenSSF git repositories.

• Give frequent presentations on “how to benefit from and contribute to the OpenSSF” to OpenSSF members in-person or over zoom. Also deliver that as talks to meetups and conferences, in person and over Zoom.

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

• Support 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.

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

• 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.

The Linux Foundation is a largely all-remote workforce that hires top-notch talent.  We are as passionate of providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are in 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., Fantastic health care, Unlimited PTO, 100% 401k match, profit-sharing, and exceptional healthcare plans.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.