Manager, Marketing and Communications (Full time contract)

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 top marketers to join our team.

As a communications and marketing leader for open source projects at the Linux Foundation, you will be pivotal in representing one of our fastest growing project communities. 

We support our project communities with a number of enabling services that include membership and funding management, ecosystem development, legal support, PR, marketing, communications, events support, trademark management, export control filings, and compliance scans. 

This role provides an incredible opportunity to be the Marketing and community leader for massive, fast-growing open source software community projects.  You'll be responsible for developing the marketing strategies for the community and leading its execution throughout the year. Your marketing plan will encompass a combination of activities that support integrated campaigns that leverage community engagement, content development, virtual and live events, PR/communications, social media, web/landing pages, account-based marketing (ABM), and conversational marketing.  You won't be alone in this effort, as you'll be supported by an expert team of marketing pros that enable our automated demand gen tools, deliver creative services, manage event venues and logistics, and provide analytics and reporting. You will also be responsible for leading community marketing committees, defining strategies and executing programs to grow developer engagement and education.

Marketing activities at the Linux Foundation help expand awareness of incredible innovations that our community builds together. New and amazing stories of innovation, creativity and community come to us every week.  Your marketing expertise will also help drive more engagement in developer communities, spread knowledge of cool new releases, drive participation at regional and national events, and encourage training and certification on new technologies.  We also provide marketing to support our popular mentorship programs in the community.  As the head of the marketing committee where our member firms for our projects gather, you'll help them gain visibility to various working groups, initiatives, case studies, and promotional opportunities to engage with us and their industry peers.

This position is for a senior individual contributor, who will manage primary foundation marketing budgets, manage shared marketing resources to achieve the foundation's goals, and define the overall community and marketing engagement strategy. This leader will be supported by a strong, well-established team of marketing experts across numerous disciplines with access to many of the industry's most modern and automated MarTech stacks.

• Be the Marketing and community leader rapidly growing open source projects and their communities. You will work closely with senior marketing staff and project subject matter experts to develop marketing subject matter expertise in multiple technology domains. 
• Build and execute quarterly + annual community and marketing plans that include integrated campaigns, events, content, and Communications.
• Develop agenda and content for monthly marketing committee meetings. Lead meeting and communicate outcomes.
• Work with team members to review the development of clear and engaging content that is consistent with the project's brand image. Content includes case studies, videos, digital promotions, newsletters, blogs, social media, and web copy.
• Work with team members to coordinate ecosystem tools project review & submission process. Work directly with the submitters to develop content and visibility plans.
• Work with project Executive Directors, LF Events team, LF Research team to develop conferences, research projects, or other special deliverables. 
• Actively promote project presence and participation at LF Events and 3rd party / industry and academic events.
• Collaborate with committee leads to develop campaigns and media relations strategies to increase paid, earned, and owned media coverage. 
• Work with LF Marketing experts to assess community engagement, online traffic, and digital content, to optimize SEO/SEM and improve brand awareness.
• Work with the LF Demand Gen team to monitor, track and analyze performance of marketing activities and channels to optimize results.
• Monitor, track and analyze performance of marketing activities and channels to optimize results.
• Work with our central demand gen organization to further optimize and reach audiences through paid, shared and owned media.
• Work collaboratively with team members who manage online presence for the project including web properties, developer sites, and social media channels, and provide backup support.

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/dental/vision 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.