The open source technical program manager works closely with open source project communities engineering teams and product management. As a member of the Open Source Strategy & Marketing (OSSM) team you will be responsible for making key open source projects successful by working with cross-functional teams. In addition a technical program manager will own communicating progress to a cross organizational executive audience representing stakeholders across AWS.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop appropriate schedule milestones and resource requirements to be successful.
- Drive multiple open source initiatives simultaneously.
- Drive and track readiness for key milestones as well as project related builds.
- Utilize your experience in open source communities to identify technical risks and define mitigation plans.
- Drive the team towards making timely decisions.
- Drive the development and creation of key processes for new open source projects.
- Maintain relationships with open source contributors key external stakeholders and open source foundations drive innovations in processes and identify opportunities to improve quality and community health.
A day in the life
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About the team
The Open Source Strategy and Marketing (OSSM - pronounced awesome) team includes veterans that have worked for some of the industrys top open source companies and foundations. Based on this open source experience we help service teams the field and others effectively engage with open source constituencies: project communities media and analysts and social media.
Our mission is to help AWS deliver on two tightly linked objectives: 1) to significantly increase the scope and value of our open source involvement and 2) to help customers and communities learn about our involvement and understand why it matters.
- 3 years of technical product or program management experience
- 3 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelors degree in engineering computer science or equivalent
- History of contribution in open source projects.
- 3 years of working directly with engineering teams experience
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