Community Manager - Open Source

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft ASOS Xero monday.com Stack Overflow NASA and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery GitOps and release orchestration solutions.

Founded in Australia in 2012 our team of over 270 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years. In 2024 Octopus Deploy acquired Argo maintainers Codefresh the leaders in enterprise GitOps. Octopus now provides the industry's most comprehensive Continuous Delivery solution for organizations operating at scale.

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive collaborative and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building communities and helping open source be successful. Octopus / Codefresh maintains the Argo Proj and leads the community through contributions code reviews and conferences like ArgoCon. This role will be heavily involved in our community contributions championing our users and work.

To help our teams work together effectively this remote position requires you to be located in the United States or Canada.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and develop communities in social media and other channels such as Discord Slack Reddit and others.

• Showcase externally the work of our Open Source office and its impact on Argo GitOps and other OSS projects.

• Develop community contributors and leaders (internal and external).

• Work with the marketing team to develop and execute communication strategies to develop the community.

• Create and execute community engagement initiatives.

• Looking for opportunities to submit speaking proposals on behalf of community members.

• Monitoring activities of other players in the OSS space and recommending initiatives to increase the visibility of our OSS contributions.

• Create and track metrics to measure community activity.

Your Background:

• 3+ years building cloud-native communities.

• Understanding Kubernetes (technical knowledge is a plus).

• Social media management including writing content for social media.

• Proven experience in building community in OSS space.

• Participation in developer conferences CFPs submissions and reviews.

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation . Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.

Compensation for this role is:

Level 2

Maturing- $85000 + stock options

Performing- $100000 + stock options

Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options generous health care (100% individuals 75% dependents) dental and vision 401K matching pension contributions of up to 5% and stock options. Learn more .

Interview Process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

👋🏼 Initial chat [30 min]

Talent acquisition screen: Meet with your Talent Acquisition team and get a feel for what it would be like to be an Octonaut!

🧑‍💻 Hiring manager chat [45–60 min]

Hiring manager chat: Designated time to chat with the hiring manager. This is a great opportunity to get to know each other. You should expect the hiring manager to ask questions about your professional background and goals. We welcome any questions you may have for us!

🎉 Collaboration Chat [30 min]

Meet your colleagues: Join this call to meet a colleague you’d partner with closely. This 30-minute call is a great way to understand what day-to-day cross-functional collaboration at Octopus Deploy looks like.

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values how we structure teams career progression leave and benefits and much more.

If you're enthusiastic about this position even if you don’t meet all the criteria above we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.

We know your time is precious. If you apply we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.

[Note to Search Firms/Agencies]

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