Community Manager – Open Source

🕒 May 20

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Akuity

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • SaaS • Cloud

Akuity is a company that provides an end-to-end GitOps platform for Kubernetes, focusing on deployment, promotion, and monitoring with tools like Argo CD, Kargo, and KubeVision. The platform extends Kubernetes APIs to enhance continuous delivery, container orchestration, and event automation. Akuity's solutions aim to simplify infrastructure management, improve security, and increase deployment efficiency, demonstrating significant time savings and improved shipping velocity for developers. Akuity also offers enterprise support for Argo, emphasizing security, compliance, and scalability for Kubernetes deployments.

📋 Description

• Own and execute the community strategy for both Argo CD and Kargo — defining goals, tracking health metrics, and driving measurable growth in contributors and engagement • Build contributor pathways that lower the barrier to entry: contributor guides, onboarding documentation, and regular office hours with maintainers • Nurture relationships with the CNCF, power users, active contributors, community maintainers across GitHub and related social channels • Work closely with engineering to surface community feedback, flag recurring pain points, and close the loop publicly when issues get resolved or features ship • Help shape how we communicate across both communities — release notes, changelogs, contributor newsletters, and GitHub Discussions • Shape Akuity's event presence across the Kubernetes/GitOps ecosystem — KubeCon, ArgoCon, DevOps Days, PlatformCon, and beyond — from CFP submissions and speaker prep to post-event follow-up • Own and operate community programming: contributor summits, virtual deep dives, GitOps Monthly webinars, live Q&As, and conference co-located meetups • Serve as a credible external voice for Akuity at industry events; you genuinely enjoy talking to developers about GitOps and software delivery • Work cross-functionally with marketing and product to ensure events convert interest into lasting community engagement

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8 years of community management or developer relations experience in an open source or developer tools context • Familiarity with the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem — you know what GitOps means, you’ve heard of Argo CD, and you’re not intimidated by a YAML file • Proven track record of growing a technical open source community in a meaningful, measurable way • Hands-on events experience: CFP management, booth coordination, recap content, and follow-up programs • Strong async writer — GitHub comments, community newsletters, Slack threads, and release-adjacent content are all in your wheelhouse • Comfortable with data: you track what matters, build a case from metrics, and course-correct without being told • Collaborative by nature — you’ll work closely across engineering, product, and marketing. • You’ve used Argo CD or Kargo in a real environment, or contributed to either project (Nice to Have) • Active presence in CNCF, OpenSSF, or related cloud-native communities (Nice to Have) • You’ve spoken at KubeCon, ArgoCon, or a comparable developer conference (Nice to Have) • Experience building ambassador or champion programs from scratch (Nice to Have) • You’ve run community programs around a CNCF-graduated or incubating project (Nice to Have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous events and travel budget to be present where the Argo CD and Kargo communities are • Competitive salary, equity, and benefits