Engineering Director , Canonical
Community
Enterprise open source solutions
Job no longer available
Enterprise open source solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.
Role
Who you are
- You have a long history and clear public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
- You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
- You have experience leading successful projects and teams
- You are an articulate communicator
- You are comfortable preparing and giving presentations
- You enjoy writing and have excellent writing skills
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You follow industry trends and new technologies
- You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
- You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You 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
What the job involves
- As the Director of Community you will have a broad impact and responsibility for growing community engagement and processes across all of engineering
- You will be responsible for assisting various teams at Canonical in broadening their community engagement activities
- You will assist these teams in making community an important aspect of how we do what we 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 organise cross-team participation in community events and mentoring
- Outside of those responsibilities you will assist the Ubuntu community representative in ensuring community processes are high quality and consistently implemented
- You will work in a distributed team and travel internationally 4 to 6 times per year (1 week at a time) for engineering sprints, industry events, and conferences
- Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
- Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
- 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
- Identifying relevant influencers and devising plans on how to effectively engage with them
Our take
Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.
With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.
The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$9.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $9.8m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Learning and personal professional development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Generous parental leave
- Priority Pass for travel
Company HQ
Southwark, London
Leadership
Mark Shuttleworth
(CEO)Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)
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