Engineering Director Full-time Job

What your day will look like

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

What we are looking for in you

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 deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.