Community Marketing Manager

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, we’re helping to solve the hardest technology problems through mass collaboration at scale.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. We have proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception. We’re growing at a phenomenal rate and we’re looking for experienced communications and marketing professionals to support our growing roster of open source projects. 

We are seeking a Community Marketing Manager as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) marketing team at the Linux Foundation. You will be responsible for building and nurturing relationships with community members and helping lead and execute initiatives that drive awareness of, engagement with, and contributions to the communities CNCF serves. It is ideal for someone with experience in open source, developer-first products, or enterprise software.

You will work cross-functionally with the global CNCF community, internal teams, event managers, and ecosystem partners to support the growth of CNCF-hosted projects and programs. This position is for a manager-level contributor who has helped define community and community oriented marketing engagement strategies, has experience with shared marketing or agency resources, and some budgeting experience. This role reports to the Head of Marketing at CNCF.

Responsibilities
 

• Manages, fosters connections with, and becomes a trusted community advisor 

• Thoughtful point of contact engaging via Slack, conferences, monthly calls, and at events

• Encourages the community to connect with and support each other

• Captures, recognizes, and amplifies successes and stories from the community 

• Identifies opportunities for community, project and organizational program growth and efficiencies

• Builds and implements multi-channel community marketing campaigns

• Leads community meetings, driving engagement and participation

• Drive promotion and engagement for CNCF events 

• Focus on cost reduction and maximizing value

• Coordinate with external agencies and internal partners as needed

• Program engagement and impact reporting

• 4-5 years of end user engagement, community marketing, or ecosystem development and marketing experience in an open source or enterprise software business

• Exceptional relationship building, communication skills, stakeholder management, and cross-functional engagement

• Must be familiar with the cloud native community

• Experience writing and implementing multi-channel marketing campaigns

• Ability to manage changing priorities and major challenges

• Highly creative, composed, self-directed

• Exemplary organizational skills with the ability to prioritize 

• Experience engaging with developers

• Community events management and strategy

• Adept at or holds Certifications in HubSpot: email marketing, digital marketing

• Experience with Canva required; experience with Asana preferred 

• Ability to travel internationally

Salary $90,000 - 102,000 USD

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.