Measurement Lab Director, Technical Lead

Summary

Join Code for Science & Society (CS&S) as the Measurement Lab (M-Lab) Director, Technical Lead! This key leadership role involves creating and implementing M-Lab's strategy, building relationships with partners, representing M-Lab publicly, and acting as a liaison between various research ecosystems. You will lead the technical implementation of M-Lab's strategic goals, contribute code, ensure manageable technical complexity, and drive the technical roadmap. The position requires experience leading technical teams, building tools, and communicating technical concepts effectively. It's a remote, full-time position offering a competitive salary and benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, 401k matching, and unlimited paid time off. The ideal candidate will have availability for synchronous meetings during overlapping work hours across different time zones.

Requirements

• Have experience leading technical teams and collaboratively developing organizational strategy
• Have a demonstrative track record of building and delivering tools
• Have excellent project team communication and meeting facilitation skills
• Enjoy communicating technical concepts across multiple audiences and levels of expertise
• Have a collaborative approach to organizational leadership and multi stakeholder consensus-building
• Have experience in open source and nonprofit ecosystems
• Enjoy working independently and collaboratively within a fully remote, distributed team
• Are available to work with overlap during prime work hours where we have team members (11-6pm Central Europe / 10-5pm UK / 8-6pm US Eastern / 8-3pm US Pacific)

Responsibilities

• Create and implement M-Lab’s strategy, impact, development and sustainability
• Lead M-Lab’s presence and contributions in relevant ecosystems such as Internet measurement and networking, Internet governance, Internet infrastructure and access, open source technology, Internet Freedom and Digital Equity
• Build, develop and strengthen relationships with partnership organizations and community partners
• Represent M-Lab’s data and research publicly at venues such as academic conferences, policy and advocacy conferences, Internet freedom convenings
• Act as liaison between the diverse set of research ecosystems M-Lab works within including academic research, industry, Internet governance organizations, policy makers, NGOs and advocates
• Keep up to date with Internet measurement best practices and methodologies
• Balance short term needs with the long term health of the project
• Lead the M-Lab team, including manage and help develop the careers and skill sets of the M-Lab team
• Lead the technical implementation of M-Lab’s strategic goals across stakeholders and contributing organizations
• Contribute code to the M-Lab project and develop and lead by example with M-Lab development best practices
• Ensure the technical complexity of the whole and individual projects remains manageable
• Drive the technical roadmap and development priorities and work with staff to implement action plans
• Lead the development of research artifacts such as papers, presentations, convenings and data visualizations using M-Lab data and tools
• Proactively investigate potential applications for M-Lab’s data and tools to experimental, novel areas of research
• Lead the curation and solicitation of new measurement services for the M-Lab platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous contributions or expertise in public interest Internet research areas such as broadband mapping, digital divide advocacy, censorship. measurement research, protocol development, Internet health, Internet quality, etc
• Experience building and architecting complex systems
• Experience working with external contributors across multiple organizations
• Background in or experience with academic research

Benefits

• Starting total compensation range of 100,000 to 110,000 USD annually including benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with 4% employer match), and unlimited paid time off (we encourage a minimum of one week off per quarter for all employees)
• Remote, full time position
• 4-day work week