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- DIRECTOR ENGINEERING, OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY MANAGER
-In edX courses, students make (and break) electronic circuits, they manipulate molecules on the fly and they do it all at once, in their tens of thousands. We have great Professors and great Universities. But we can’t possibly keep up with all the great ideas out there, so we’re making our platform open source, to turn up the volume on great education. To do that well, we’ll need a Director of Engineering who can lead our Open Source Community efforts.
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- Define and implement software design standards that make the open source community most welcome and productive. -
- Work with others to establish the governance standards for the edX Open Source Platform, establish the infrastructure, and manage the team to deliver releases and leverage our University partners and stakeholders to make the edX platform the world’s best learning platform. -
- Help the organization recognize the benefits and limitations inherent in open source solutions. -
- Establish best practices and key tool usage, especially those based on industry standards. -
- Provide visibility for the leadership team into the concerns and challenges faced by the open source community. -
- Foster a thriving community by providing the communication, documentation and feedback that they need to be enthusiastic. -
- Maximize the good code design coming from the open source community. -
- Provide the wit and firmness that the community needs to channel their energy productively. -
- Tactfully balance the internal needs of the organization to pursue new opportunities with the community’s need to participate in the platform’s evolution. -
- Shorten lines of communication and build trust across entire team -
Qualifications:
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- Bachelors, preferably Masters in Computer Science -
- Solid communication skills, especially written -
- Committed to Agile practice, Scrum and Kanban -
- Charm and humor -
- Deep familiarity with Open Source, participant and contributor -
- Python, Django, Javascript -
- Commitment to support your technical recommendations, both within and beyond the organization. -
If you are interested in this position, please send an email to jobs@edx.org.
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