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Company Description

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 solves the hardest technology problems by creating history's largest shared technology investment.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one of the Fortune 100. The Linux Foundation has proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since its 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 mission, vision and values to guide our efforts, decision making, and delivery for all our programs. This job is specific to the OpenSSF, but your employer will be the Linux Foundation.

Job Description

We seek a Technical Project Manager to help us support our growing community of developers, technical contributors, upstream maintainers, downstream end-users, and other community participants. This role will lead OpenSSF Technical Initiatives to help ensure that they are sustained 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 organize the community's activities. You’ll help ensure OpenSSF operational tools and programmatic activities are effective for our most active contributors and new participants. Your work will drive improved participation, communication, and efficiency across the organization’s many events, projects, member organizations, and strategic partnerships.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Coordinating the operation of OpenSSF Technical Initiatives
  • Reporting on and tracking Technical Initiatives' operational status and identifying any needs for coordination with other OpenSSF or LF staff
  • Developing and coordinating organization OKRs and measuring progress
  • Maintaining and executing processes to fund Technical Initiatives as approved by the OpenSSF Technical Advisory Council in coordination with the Governing Board
  • Manage membership operations such as onboarding and status checks
  • Create plans and manage the execution of Linux Foundation central services (e.g., Events and Marketing) to support the community.
  • Invest specific attention into growing the diversity of the OpenSSF community
  • Ensuring that Linux Foundation and OpenSSF policies are adhered to, and best practices are adopted.
  • Other duties as required

Salary Range $100,000 - $130,000

Qualifications

  • 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 on average)

Additional Information

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.

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

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