Sr. Program Manager - EDB Postgres Community Initiatives

Job Description:

As a key member of the team you’ll be one of EDB’s primary faces to the Postgres Community ensuring that we are appropriately recognized for our contributions to PostgreSQL as well as driving key community feedback and initiatives into the EDB Product organization.

What your impact will be:

• In collaboration with EDB hackers build a strategy regarding the best and most appropriate ways to amplify our work

• Encourage manage amplify and monitor the public visibility and work of EDB hackers through meet-ups blogs podcasts Planet Postgres etc. encompassing everything from small patches to larger EDB-run OSS projects like Barman

• Partner with Product Marketing to drive EDB’s Postgres Community conference strategy

• Coordinate and support EDB’s social media and community event marketing including monitoring of community communications channels

• Promote EDB speakers and sponsorship at Postgres conferences including coordinating & supporting speaker dry runs/feedback sessions

• Further strengthen EDB’s ties to the community through internal and external mentoring programs recruiting opportunities and interfacing with community packagers

• Ownership and communication of the  “EDB contributions to Postgres” annual data project

• Continuously assess EDB’s position in the community and develop ways to enhance and increase our community standing

What you will bring:

• Passion curiosity and a highly articulate understanding of Postgres and its leadership role in the developer community

• Stellar communications skills with a high-energy leadership style and a get-it-done ethos

• Experience working in the Postgres community as a hacker and/or advocate

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a distributed international team

• Calm and methodical approach with good communication skills

What will give you an edge:

• In-depth knowledge of Postgres and open source database technologies

• Extensive experience in impactful communications across both the enterprise and the community

• Experience working within a “you build it you own it” culture