Associate AI Community Architect Full-time

Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office is looking for a highly motivated and hands-on individual to staff community development for our involvement in AI and machine learning communities. We are looking for a person who has some community-building experience or shows great aptitude therein, familiarity with open source projects, and the ability to quickly learn how to align business and customer needs with open source community efforts. The right candidate will show aptitude for developing open source business strategies with guidance from senior leaders and gathering metrics to evaluate success. You’ll engage with both the users of and the developers of open source projects, advocating for the needs of the community while serving as a public face for the projects. With strong guidance from experienced members of your immediate team and your manager, you will work with members of the Open Source Program Office, engineering, the legal team, and other stakeholders across Red Hat as well as in multiple open source software communities.

This position requires some international travel. This position is available in our Waterford, Ireland engineering center. Regardless of where you are based, your primary stakeholders are located in Europe and the United States East Coast. Your working hours will require sufficient overlap with the Eastern Time Zone (UTC-5) and Central European Time (UTC+1).

What you’ll do

• Expand the visibility of Red Hat as an industry leader in open source by demonstrating and promoting Red Hat’s contributions to AI and ML related open source projects and communities that align with our overall strategy
• Support Red Hat’s contributions within communities where the company has more recently started strategic engagement (e.g. the AI Alliance, PyTorch)
• Assist in crafting and delivering Red Hat’s position in the evolving AI market, crafting authentic and compelling messaging around how Red Hat supports our communities and customers in their evolution toward increased use of AI tools.
• Support execution of Red Hat’s community commitments in key, AI-related open source projects aligned to Red Hat’s strategy; champion Red Hat’s opinionated technical choices in these communities in an audience appropriate manner to further Red Hat’s technology and business agenda through technical demos and staffing booths at key AI upstream events.
• Work with our engineering, legal, security, communications, product, and recruiting teams to turn AI related contributions into powerful stories that demonstrate the strength of open source.
• Cultivate our open source presence and reputation in AI related open source organizations, standards bodies, and more.
• With support from senior members of the OSPO AI Community team, partner with various Red Hat internal teams – including corporate communications, events, consulting, developer, product, and partner marketing – to ensure successful and targeted execution of various community outreach activities including events, social media, web content, and more.

What you’ll bring

• Strong understanding of AI/ML and AIOps technologies, as well as curiosity and passion to track its evolution and be a part of influencing that evolution.
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work through a prioritized backlog associated with both short- and long-term goals.
• Experience with software development, open source developer communities and understanding of development processes.
• Ability to work effectively, with guidance, in multiple cross-organizational teams.
• Familiarity with developer tools, continuous integration, containers, Kubernetes, security, and cloud native technologies in general.
• Familiarity with social media.

About Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40+ countries, our associates have the flexibility to choose the work environment that suits their needs from in-office to fully remote to office-flex. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas, no matter their title or tenure. We’re a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative, passionate people ready to contribute their ideas, help solve complex problems, and make an impact. Opportunities are open. Join us.

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