Head of Community

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not Specified

Position Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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.
• Build Percona’s thought leadership in open databases.
• Start conversations about Percona as the leading cloud- and database-agnostic player.
• Increase Percona excitement among application developers, SREs, and DBAs.
• Enable recruiting.

Key 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

Requirements

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.

Closing & Travel

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.

About Percona

Percona is a highly respected thought leader in the global open-source community. Our mission is to Keep Open Source Open. We provide services and software for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and MariaDB.

Percona is remote-only and globally dispersed – we have colleagues in more than 40 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 paid time off, all your equipment for your remote office, funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences) and the opportunity to participate in an equity incentive plan.

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 go-to in the open-source database space, let’s talk.

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.