Job Description

As a Marketing and Communications Manager at The Linux Foundation, you will be pivotal in representing one of our most important and fastest-growing foundation brands: the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). OpenSSF serves at the heart of securing coding initiatives and software supply chain security. Your role will be to engage and manage communication with our many corporate and developer community members. You will build out a core set of internal and external content to support this, including case studies, testimonials, press releases, web and email copy, social media content, etc. You will be a key liaison for member opportunities and concerns, while also supporting our core go-to-community activities. You will also play a key role in establishing clear messaging, targeted to the foundation’s diverse stakeholder base - all while maintaining strong brand awareness.

This position is for an individual contributor, with no direct reports.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop clear and engaging content that is consistent with the foundation’s brand image and addresses both business goals and community needs.

• Content including press releases, newsletter, blogs, and, social media posts

• Develop PR campaigns and media relations strategies to increase earned media coverage

• Organize PR events (e.g. open days, press conferences) and serve as the Foundation’s central PR contact

• Maintain relationships with media outlets; be the main point of contact with media facilitate interviews and story support from our executive team

• Monitor, track and analyze our earned media coverage and develop PR strategies to strengthen our brand presence in industry wide initiatives

• Analyze community engagement and create strategic plans to optimize SEO/SEM for each Foundation’s projects.

• Work with our central demand gen organization to further optimize and reach audiences through paid and owned media.

• Plan and organize attendance for OpenSSF events

• Manage social media channels including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs

Qualifications

• 7+ years of marketing experience in B2B business, preferably in open source or software businesses

• Previous relationships with media publications and outlets

• Experience managing communication to B2B communities related to open source security and application security is not required, but would certainly differentiate you as a candidate.

• Previous hands-on experience in social media management and SEO/SEM strategies.

• Ability to interface at all levels maintaining strong working relationships across cross-functional teams.

MORE ABOUT OPENSSF

HTTPS://OPENSSF.ORG/

The Linux Foundation, has raised $10 million in new investments to expand and support the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a cross-industry collaboration that brings together multiple open source software initiatives under one umbrella to identify and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in open source software and develop improved tooling, training, research, best practices, and vulnerability disclosure practices. Open source luminary Brian Behlendorf will serve the OpenSSF community as General Manager. 

Financial commitments from Premier members include Amazon, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Facebook, Fidelity, GitHub, Google, IBM, Intel, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Oracle, Red Hat, Snyk, and VMware. Additional commitments come from General members Aiven, Anchore, Apiiro, AuriStor, Codethink, Cybertrust Japan, Deepfence, Devgistics, DTCC, GitLab, Goldman Sachs, JFrog, Nutanix, StackHawk, Tencent, TideLift, and Wind River.

“This pan-industry commitment is answering the call from the White House to raise the baseline for our collective cybersecurity wellbeing, as well as ‘paying it forward’ to open source communities to help them create secure software from which we all benefit,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation. “We’re pleased to have Brian Behlendorf’s leadership and extensive expertise on building and sustaining large communities and

Additional Information

The Linux Foundation is an all-remote workforce that hires world-class talent. We are as passionate about providing a flexible and supportive work culture as we are about open-source software. Collaboration is in our DNA, and we pride ourselves on being able to work closely together while not being tied to an office. We offer exceptional benefits - e.g., top of the line healthcare/dental/vision plans, unlimited PTO, and 100% 401k match up to the IRS-defined limit per year.

The Linux Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.