Position Overview

Help edX build a collaborative, innovative, and productive community based around the Open edX platform. Founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and based in Cambridge, MA, USA, edX is focused on transforming online and classroom learning and providing quality education for everyone, everywhere. Open edX is the free and open platform that powers edX courses as well as hundreds of sites in over 20 languages around the world. With Open edX, educators and technologists are building learning tools and creating innovative solutions to benefit learners across a broad range of needs, skills and abilities.

As a community leader on our Open Source team, you will be responsible for enabling our community of developers and operators to be productive and successful. You will enable the community to contribute to the overall sustainability of the Open edX project. You will also act as a vocal advocate for community priorities within the edX engineering and product organizations.

We know this is an unusual role. If you think you can do this -- however you came by your unique combination of skills -- we want to hear from you!

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Communicate the mission of the organization and vision of the product to the community, and communicate the community’s priorities internally
• Participate actively in the contribution process, providing guidance and feedback to the community and shepherding contributions through the process of being reviewed by engineering, product, UX and accessibility teams
• Enable the community to be self-sustaining by defining and promoting opportunities for contribution and participation in the Open edX project including and beyond code, such as: documentation, product definition and feedback, working group participation and sharing learnings at conferences and meetups
• Drive the community working group process from definition to contribution by identifying opportunities for collaboration between community members and edX that are aligned with the product vision and organizing around them

Required:

• Passion for enabling a community of educators and engineers
• Experience organizing and driving groups with varied interests towards a common goal and delivering tangible results
• Community experience, one or more of:
• Active participation in an open source or other highly collaborative community
• Record of commitment to open source projects

Pluses:

• Experience contributing to educational technology projects
• Experience with working on a project with significant international scale
• Confident with public speaking, with experience presenting to small to medium-sized groups such as local meetups or conferences