Head of Community (Remote)

Job Description

Job Description

As the Head of Community, you will inspire and grow an incredible community of Percona software users and contributors, making their every interaction with databases an empowering experience. Your leadership will bring Percona into new communities of application developers and DevOps/SRE personas, with a major impact on the company’s overall reach.

What You Will Do:

Key responsibilities fall into two main categories:

Community Relations

• Build and manage a team and strategy to support and empower users, evangelists, students, and open source projects.

• Focus on enabling and supporting others in writing blogs, giving talks, and contributing to Percona software

Technical Evangelism

• Lead a team that drives speaking and content creation/distribution

• Building Percona’s thought leadership in open databases

• Starting conversations about Percona as the leading cloud- and database-agnostic player

• Increasing Percona excitement among application developers, SREs, and DBAs

• Enabling recruiting

Outcomes:

• Community Growth

• Engagement Growth

• Content Creation

• User Satisfaction Measurement and Improvement

• External Advocacy Growth

• Create Event Participation Program

• Create Knowledge Sharing Program

• Create Feedback Program

What You Have Done:

• Technical evangelism — you know how to grow brand and adoption through content

• Community management — you know how to enable and accelerate a community

• Management experience — you know how to manage people, lead a team, define a strategy and execute upon it

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Significant experience working with databases

• Significant experience with open-source ecosystems

This role requires consistent availability during overlap hours between the Americas and EMEA. The global team currently spans North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. Expected travel is in the 10%–30% range, based in part on the speaking strategy you create for the Community team.

Why Percona?

At Percona, we believe an open world is a better world. Our mission is to enable everyone to innovate freely, by providing the best open source database software, support, and services. We make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and open source software built with the community for you. Our technical teams are experts in MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.

Percona is proud to be a remote-only and globally dispersed workforce – we have colleagues in more than 50 countries! We offer a collaborative, highly-engaged culture where your ideas are welcome and your voice is heard.

Our staff receives generous benefits including flexible work hours and various paid time off programs, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences), ongoing connectivity allowances, and the opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan. We also have benefits that support a healthy work/life balance such as The Percona Adventure Team, Work-from-Anywhere, FlowDays, FryDays, and overall flexibility. We also support being socially responsible through our PAVE volunteering program and Women Transforming Technology.

If you love the idea of working with a high-growth tech company that is one of the best in the business and known globally as a leader in the open-source database space, let’s talk!

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