Community Manager (Open-Source AI)

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• Help design and run a program of in-person events in cities where open AI builders are already gathering — not just the major hubs
• Work with ecosystem partners to co-produce events that feel native to the communities they're in
• Own the logistics, the run-of-show, and the follow-through that turns a one-time event into a recurring thing
• Identify the right culminating moments — venues and formats that give the community a chance to show what it's built
• Identify and cultivate relationships with companies, projects, and organizations who want to build alongside the open AI community — not just sponsor a logo on a banner
• Develop and pitch partnership and sponsorship opportunities that are genuine fits: technical collaborators, ecosystem investors, and organizations with shared values
• Structure partnerships that create real value for builders — access to tools, compute, datasets, mentorship, or distribution — not just funding
• Help Mozilla become the kind of partner that other organizations want to work with: trusted, well-networked, and worth the relationship
• Be present in the online spaces where open-source AI developers actually live: GitHub, Discord, Reddit, Hacker News, and wherever else the conversation is happening
• Build relationships with builders — not just follower counts
• Know who the respected people in the ecosystem are, and help Mozilla become someone they trust
• Surface what the community actually needs — the friction, the gaps, the things nobody's built yet — and feed that back into Mozilla's work
• Help design and run hackathons focused on open AI infrastructure — from format to prizes to what happens after the event ends
• Work with internal teams and external partners to make programs feel genuinely useful to builders, not just promotional
• Think about what it means to build with the community, not just for it — and design programs accordingly
• Help turn one-off events into a program with continuity, a clear identity, and the external support to sustain it
• Work closely with the newsletter, social media, and communications team to make sure what's happening in the community shows up in Mozilla's public voice — and vice versa
• Help turn community moments into content: a great demo, a surprising deployment, a hard-won lesson
• Be the connective tissue between the builders, the partners, and the rest of the CTO team's work
• You've built or managed a technical community before — developer relations, open-source, or something adjacent
• You know the difference between a community and an audience, and you've built the former
• You've worked with sponsors or partners before and know how to structure relationships that create real value on both sides — not just transactional ones
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and can operate in early-stage programs where the playbook doesn't exist yet
• You understand how developers think, what they care about, and what makes them roll their eyes
• You're genuinely excited about open-source AI — not as a trend, but as something worth fighting for
• You can hold two things at once: the community's trust, and the organizational relationships that make the programs possible
• A growing, engaged community of developers building on open AI infrastructure — with Mozilla as the connective tissue
• A regular drumbeat of events, online and in-person, that people actually show up to and come back to
• Partnerships and sponsorships that bring real resources and credibility to the program — and that partners are proud to be part of
• Relationships with builders, organizers, and ecosystem partners that give Mozilla real signal about what's working and what's broken in the open AI stack
• A community that becomes the first audience for Mozilla's research, tools, and public work on open source AI
• Fixed-term contractor engagement
• Flexible, outcome-oriented working model
• Scope centered on community-building, program development, and ecosystem partnership deliverables
• This opportunity is project-based and should not be read as a permanent employee role