Job Description
Role overview
The Linux Foundation’s Standards and Specifications team is looking for a Director of Program Management to guide and support the growth and success of its projects. Cultivating and nurturing relationships with community members and colleagues, you’ll bring best-in-class project management practices, outcome-oriented focus, and high-value leadership support to some of the most critical areas of technology and innovation.
This role bridges strategic thinking with operational execution. Working with your peers and cross-functionally, you’ll bring:
Strategic Input:
- Help develop key projects, roadmaps, and other deliverables based on their goals as a strategic partner to Executive Directors, Chairpersons, and project Leadership.
- Synthesize common themes from the Projects’ governing bodies and Membership, translating them into operational, results-driven plans that drive forward momentum as well as continuous improvement.
- Advise and drive adoption of best practices for open source and open standards development, particularly as it pertains to leveraging modern tools and policies.
- Consult with peers and executive leadership on policy matters ranging from internal procedures to public policy, such as the EU’s CRA legislation.
- Help build and re-enforce a healthy, supportive, collaborative culture among program managers, project coordinators, Members and community leaders of LF’s Standards and Specifications projects.
- Anticipate, understand, and execute on strategic opportunities critical for the LF’s Standards and Specifications team.
- Review and interpret project health, membership and contribution data, and convert it into actionable insights and opportunities for projects.
Operational Excellence:
- Be the Glue — serve the team as a center of activity and communication, ensuring forward, timely progress on strategic goals through increased communication and cross-functional collaboration.
- Fill the Gaps — step in to plug holes on the team or in a key project area and help find sustainable long-term solutions, such as during a new project launch or growth period, and help projects leverage all the tools and resources at their disposal.
- Be the Partner – be a mentor and educator where needed; for example providing contextual background information for new hires, serving as subject matter expert on standardization, and escalating issues that require executive resolution.
- Be the Product Owner — work closely with your teammates at the LF to ensure that we are building and delivering the best tools and experiences for our project communities, members, and partners.
Qualifications
- 7 or more years proven experience in a similar role
- Experience working with standards developing organizations, industry/trade consortia or associations, and/or other multi-party technology development projects
- Experience working cross functionally with multiple stakeholders, inside and outside the organization, to bring people into shared alignment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with technical projects, either as an engineer, software developer, project manager, in the community or otherwise a plus
- Ability to address complex and sensitive community topics with humility, judgment, tact and humor when necessary.
- Familiarity with leading open technology ecosystem players and technologies, and/or areas on the Critical and Emerging Technologies List
- Knowledge of key policy and other issues currently facing open standards and/or open source projects
- The ability to work globally, including the ability to take occasional pre-scheduled teleconference calls outside of local business hours.
Preferred
- Experience working with a distributed workforce and community, with an emphasis on async communication and collaboration
- Proficiency with developer tools such as DevSecOps platforms and intimate knowledge of the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to support projects working in EU timezones
- Experience working in a consultative environment, professional services, and/or Business background a plus
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