Engineering Director, Community job at Canonical
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Vacancy title:
Engineering Director, Community

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Manufacturing , Category: Science & Engineering ]

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Canonical

Deadline of this Job:
06 April 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
You will be responsible for assisting various teams at Canonical in broadening their community engagement activities. You will ensure that all engineering teams make community an important aspect of how they do what they 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 team in ensuring community processes are high quality and consistently implemented.

What you will do
• 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.

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 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

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
To apply follow this link https://boards.greenhouse.io/canonicaljobs/jobs/4063743?gh_src=3368c2ff1us&utm_source=MyJobMag 

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 06 April 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 23-03-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 23-03-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 23-03-2066
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