Community Marketing Manager

Summary

Join the Linux Foundation's Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Community Marketing Manager and build relationships with community members, driving awareness and engagement with CNCF projects. You will work cross-functionally with internal teams, event managers, and partners to support CNCF's growth. This manager-level role requires experience in open source, developer-first products, or enterprise software, along with community marketing strategies and budgeting. Responsibilities include managing community connections, encouraging community support, identifying growth opportunities, implementing marketing campaigns, leading community meetings, and driving event promotion. The role reports to the Head of Marketing at CNCF. The Linux Foundation offers a largely all-remote work environment with exceptional benefits.

Requirements

• 4-5 years of end user engagement, community marketing, or ecosystem development and marketing experience in an open source or enterprise software business
• Exceptional relationship building, communication skills, stakeholder management, and cross-functional engagement
• Must be familiar with the cloud native community
• Experience writing and implementing multi-channel marketing campaigns
• Ability to manage changing priorities and major challenges
• Highly creative, composed, self-directed
• Exemplary organizational skills with the ability to prioritize
• Experience engaging with developers
• Community events management and strategy
• Adept at or holds Certifications in HubSpot: email marketing, digital marketing
• Ability to travel internationally

Responsibilities

• Manages, fosters connections with, and becomes a trusted community advisor
• Thoughtful point of contact engaging via Slack, conferences, monthly calls, and at events
• Encourages the community to connect with and support each other
• Captures, recognizes, and amplifies successes and stories from the community
• Identifies opportunities for community, project and organizational program growth and efficiencies
• Builds and implements multi-channel community marketing campaigns
• Leads community meetings, driving engagement and participation
• Drive promotion and engagement for CNCF events
• Focus on cost reduction and maximizing value
• Coordinate with external agencies and internal partners as needed
• Program engagement and impact reporting

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Canva required; experience with Asana preferred

Benefits

• Fantastic health care
• Unlimited PTO
• 100% 401k match
• Profit-sharing
• Exceptional healthcare plans