About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:
Join our team to help the world of software development and open source collaboration be better, safer and welcoming to people of all backgrounds. GitHub is uniquely positioned to help developers grow and also help grow the next generation of people becoming developers.
We are looking for a new Community Manager to join our well established and expanding global Developer Relations team to come and grow with us.
What does Developer Relations at GitHub do?
Whether the person is brand new to coding, a maker, a hobbyist, someone working on a personal project, someone contributing to open source, a team launching their first startup, or someone working as part of a group in a large enterprise - they are a developer and we want to be there to support them and help them make awesome things. You can check out some of our recent work on keynotes, with the GitHub Stars, short-form video, meetups, live-streams, hackathons, social media, animated-gif goodness and more.
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We're on the ground, serving developers in regions around the world from our position in the core of the product team at GitHub
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Spark creativity and excitement around GitHub, and are always finding new ways to connect with developers
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Help people see how new features can make them faster, collaborate better, be more efficient, and more creative
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Connect products teams with the people they need to learn from to make GitHub work better for them - help the org learn
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Keep open source communities up to speed with the latest changes they can take advantage of and help maintainers be even more awesome than they already are.
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Success? That's based on the happiness of developers, success of open source and enabling the creativity of our superfans and the community around GitHub.
Now we're seeking a new team member who wants to get started in a career as a Community Manager to join our well established and growing global Developer Relations team.
Responsibilities:
- Communicate: Serve as a contact point for the DevRel team and work with the DevRel Developer Programs and Advocates teams to help enable our superfans and the community around GitHub.
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Recruit: Identify the GitHub power users globally, the most inspirational open source maintainers and the superfans who might have what it takes to be a GitHub Star.
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Events Planning: Organize and participate in online or in-person events, hackathons, manage Q&As and event logistics. Work closely and manage client/vendor relations. You'll also work closely with internal procurement, IT and security teams to handle all event operations and logistics.
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Nurture: Communities in open source and communities of developers across the world that are using GitHub for their collaboration.
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Learn: Everything about GitHub and what problems developers are trying to solve so you know how best to communicate with them and help to coordinate for their needs within the DevRel and wider product teams. You are not alone in this, you will be joining an established team who are there to coach you, share ideas and work together.
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Relationship management:Build a wide and diverse network amongst the internal teams so you have a diverse network to maintain and to connect to our GitHub community when they are looking for people to give feedback on ideas and plans, as well as handle any information requests. You’ll also manage the day-to-day logistics and operations for the GitHub Stars program, assist in International Expansion and OSS programs. You will need to develop an understanding of essential components of the business and key partnerships, to provide strategic support to DevRel.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
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3+ years experience in managing developer programs, developer advocacy or developer-focused events
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2+ years experience working with developer communities and helping connect them with engineering teams and other resources in your organization to help them be successful.
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Proven experience planning, coordinating, and communicating events
Preferred Qualifications:
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Exceptional organizational skills with very strong communication and relationship building skill
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Experience using GitHub for discussions, managing markdown files in source control or updating issues and tracking work in a project plan
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Experience identifying and qualifying individuals for suitability in your organizations developer programs
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Fluent technical English speaking / writing but any additional spoken languages are a bonus.
Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $90,700.00 - USD $240,500.00 /Yr.
In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub Leadership Principles:
GitHub values
- Customer-obsessed
- Ship to learn
- Growth mindset
- Own the outcome
- Better together
- Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
- Create clarity
- Generate energy
- Deliver success
Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
EEO Statement: GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!