• Application Deadline:
• Position: Engineering Director, Community


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

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

We offer

• Learning and Development opportunities and budget


• Annual compensation review


• Recognition rewards


• Annual leave


• Priority pass for travel


• Flexible working option