Product Manager, Open Source Community
Job Description
Summary
Swift is a powerful, memory-safe, general-purpose programming language that supports multiple platforms from macOS, iOS, Linux, Windows, to embedded and more.
Swift is looking for an Open Source Community Product Manager to build the community management function at scale. You would lead community efforts in developing new initiates and programs to support continued growth of Swift across platforms, use cases, and the increasing contributor base. You would join Apple’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a passionate, collaborative, and distributed team that partners Apple-wide to support open source strategy and operations. If you enjoy connecting people and ideas, building community, and growing open source at scale, we'd love to hear from you!
Swift is looking for an Open Source Community Product Manager to build the community management function at scale. You would lead community efforts in developing new initiates and programs to support continued growth of Swift across platforms, use cases, and the increasing contributor base. You would join Apple’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a passionate, collaborative, and distributed team that partners Apple-wide to support open source strategy and operations. If you enjoy connecting people and ideas, building community, and growing open source at scale, we'd love to hear from you!
Description
As an open source community builder, you know how to strike a balance of passion and pragmatism. You thrive on building sustainable programs that promote belonging. Drawing from your experience, you’ll lead initiatives that drive engagement, foster collaboration, and bring in new community members to the Swift programming language and the existing ecosystem.
As we build out the ecosystem for Swift, you will need to be with comfortable with open source community building, operations, program management, events, and moderation. Ensuring Swift has a welcoming, positive, and inclusive community and ecosystem is a key aspect to this role. You’ll engage with developers and contributors all over the world over GitHub, forums.swift.org, many other platforms and at events while building out new channels.
As we build out the ecosystem for Swift, you will need to be with comfortable with open source community building, operations, program management, events, and moderation. Ensuring Swift has a welcoming, positive, and inclusive community and ecosystem is a key aspect to this role. You’ll engage with developers and contributors all over the world over GitHub, forums.swift.org, many other platforms and at events while building out new channels.
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of open source project, programs, or product management focusing on community and ecosystem development
- Experience building community, ecosystem, and/or contributor programs for at least one open source project
- Understand governance and incentive structures of open source projects
- Organized, promoted, and run developer-focused events to drive awareness, collaboration, and adoption
- Familiar with gathering and reporting metrics for community engagement, and converting feedback to meaningful items for internal partners
- Built or driven moderation programs and/or code of conduct projects
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholder interests and balance the needs of many
- Demonstrated great communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to technical and non-technical audiences
- You exude strong collaboration skills, including the ability to mentor and be mentored.
Preferred Qualifications
- Building communities and ecosystems around a programming language
- Swift community member
- Ability to unify teams, utilize outstanding influencing skills, and collaboratively work towards results
- Strong facilitation, prioritization, and project management skills.
- Comfortable with navigating ambiguity in order to build structured plans and solutions
