Overview

The Linux Foundation is creating the greatest shared technology investment in history by enabling open source collaboration across companies, developers, and users. We are the organization of choice to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

OpenChain Initiative

Vision: A software supply chain where free/open source software (FOSS) is delivered with trusted and consistent compliance information.

Mission: Establish requirements to achieve effective management of free/open source software (FOSS) for software supply chain participants, such that the requirements and associated collateral are developed collaboratively and openly by representatives from the software supply chain, open source community, and academia.

The Position

The Linux Foundation is looking for a program manager to support the growth of the OpenChain project. He or she will be the primary point of contact within the Linux Foundation for each project’s members and potential members, and therefore must be proactive in every element of work with them and in tune with their goals for work with each project.

This role is a contractor working 15-20 hours per week.

Specific responsibilities span member management, business development, marketing and operations.

These Responsibilities Include:

  • Supporting OpenChain’s leadership (Governing Board, Steering Committee, and Work Team Leads) by scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, running meetings and capturing minutes
  • Based on objectives identified by OpenChain’s Governing Board, measuring progress toward meeting them and making recommendations on how to improve the project’s performance
  • Recruiting new members to the project
  • Checking in with members regularly to gauge their satisfaction and report on findings
  • Identifying opportunities for collaboration between project members
  • Creating invoices and working with each member organization’s accounting teams as needed to ensure payment is received
  • Maintaining the project’s budget in collaboration with OpenChain’s Governing Board and The Linux Foundation finance team
  • Supporting OpenChain at conferences and other events by driving member involvement and, when necessary, sponsorship
  • Conformance verification as needed, inclusive of appropriate use of the OpenChain mark within the community
  • Working with The Linux Foundation’s PR, marketing, IT, web and creative services teams as needed to orchestrate service delivery
  • Engaging on behalf of OpenChain on social platforms on a regular basis
  • Keeping the project’s website content fresh by making incremental updates as necessary, as well as suggesting broader changes to the site to ensure its ongoing value; working with members as needed to create content
  • Creating monthly newsletters in order to keep community members appraised of the project’s progress
  • Identifying opportunities for collaboration with other Linux Foundation Projects
  • Updating the OpenChain community sites (WordPress knowledge a plus)

The ideal candidate is:

  • Well organized and attentive to detail
  • A natural multitasker
  • A careful but confident communicator
  • Experienced with open source legal issues and compliance practices
  • A capable community organizer
  • Self-motivated and productive in a virtual workplace
  • Fluent in English
  • Willing to shift schedules as needed in order to accommodate the practical challenges presented by working with colleagues and members across several time zones
  • Able to travel, including internationally, several times a year in order to attend events and meet with community members and prospective members
  • Able and willing to leverage their existing network, and grow additional industry relationships to help carry forward the key messages of OpenChain describing the benefits of further industry adoption
  • Attentive to budget constraints
  • Comfortable working within the framework of a non-profit
  • Attuned to cultural nuances, working internationally
  • A bachelor’s degree is required as well as 8+ years of relevant work experience

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About The Linux Foundation

More than 20 years ago, Linus Torvalds sparked an open source revolution with a short email declaring he was doing a new project “just for fun.” Today, Linux powers 98% of the world’s super computers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide and tens of millions of Android mobile phones and consumer devices. In short, Linux is everywhere.

The Linux Foundation partners with the world's leading developers and companies to solve the hardest technology problems and accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

The World’s Most Important Open Source Software Project—Linux
Linux is the world’s largest and most pervasive open source software project in history. The Linux Foundation is home to Linux creator Linus Torvalds and lead maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman and provides a neutral home where Linux kernel development can be protected and accelerated for years to come.

• Of the top one million domains, Linux is the operating system for over 95% of them
• Over 80% of smartphones run Android, which is based on the Linux kernel
• Of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, more than 98% of them run on Linux
• Most of the global markets are running on Linux, including NYSE, NASDAQ, London Exchange, Tokyo Stock Exchange, and more
• The majority of consumer electronic devices use Linux for its small footprint
• More than 75% of cloud-enabled enterprises report using Linux as their primary cloud platform
• Linux is the go-to infrastructure supporting the world’s e-commerce leaders, including Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, Walmart, and others

The operating system has seen massive acceptance in almost every sector, including financial, government, education, and even film production. Linux is also the operating system of choice to support cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data. It is helping to transform industries and disrupt the status quo.