A Bit About Us
Oath’s Open Source Program Office supports everything related to open source success at Oath. Oath is a collection of many of the Internet’s most important brands, running on the internet’s most important open source projects. The program office’s responsibilities are wide, covering everything from helping teams determine appropriate use for inbound open source code, to reviewing and approving external publication of new projects. We work with PR, Legal, HR, Marketing, and almost every engineering team at Oath. We’re looking for someone to be part of our team to help support our mission.
- To keep aligned with the industry on open source technology standards.
- Mitigate business risk for non-compliance to license obligations, export control, information exposure, security vulnerabilities, and low-quality code.
- Make it easy for engineers to use and contribute to open source projects.
- Be viewed as an open source-friendly company for partnerships and collaborations.
- Be known as a great place for engineers to work on open source projects.
- Give back to the open source community by sharing code and practices.
- Contribute to Oath’s tech branding initiative by incorporating open source and technical products into an Oath branded online experience for developers and partners.
Now, About You
You are very familiar with the open source industry. You are skilled with the art of managing complicated projects with many moving parts. You are great at keeping a team focused on the highest priority issues. You are technical enough to understand what our projects do and help those who seek to learn them. You are a consummate professional and barriers don’t stop you. You are open to ideas, and embrace diversity of perspective to help refine your ideas. You put the customer first.
A typical day may have you work on one of of the following:
- Support engineering teams who request help related to open source licensing questions
- Track open source project health and status
- Help the web content team with open source project content to be displayed on Oath’s publicly facing engineering site.
- Organize and participate in events such as meetups, hackathons, and business development opportunities with potential partners.
- Be a service to engineering teams to help their projects get traction.
We’ll call this role the Program Manager, since you’d be involved with all the moving parts of the open source program office’s operations. To be successful, you’ll have to be comfortable working in a collaborative but sometimes chaotic environment. You’ll have to be very flexible and very organized. You’ll often have to report on the state of affairs of our program as well as on progress for our many initiatives. If that sounds like something you like to do, let’s talk about how Oath’s Open Source Program Office can help take your career to the next level!