Akuity
Open Source
OpenSourceCommunityManager
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“Open Source Community Manager at Akuity. Skills: Open Source Community Management, Developer Relations, Kubernetes Ecosystem, GitOps. Own the health, growth, and engagement of Argo CD and Kargo open source communities. Drive presence at key Kubernetes, CNCF and GitOps ecosystem events”
What You'll Achieve.
Growing a technical open source community in a meaningful, measurable way; Events convert interest into lasting community engagement
Industry & Context.
Quarterly Travel
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, 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, 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 across engineering, product, and marketing
Nice to Have
You’ve used Argo CD or Kargo in a real environment, or contributed to either project, Active presence in CNCF, OpenSSF, or related cloud-native communities, You’ve spoken at KubeCon, ArgoCon, or a comparable developer conference, Experience building ambassador or champion programs from scratch, You’ve run community programs around a CNCF-graduated or incubating project
What You'll Do.
and engagement of Argo CD and Kargo open source communities
Drive presence at key Kubernetes
CNCF and GitOps ecosystem events
Build programs that turn users into contributors and contributors into champions
Talk to developers about GitOps and software delivery
Ensure events convert interest into lasting community engagement
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work cross-functionally with marketing and product; Work across engineering, product, and marketing
Communication Scope
writing; verbal communication
Full Job Description
🌎 Remote (U. S. or Canada) | 💼 Full-Time | ✈️ Quarterly Travel Open Source Community Manager Job Title Open Source Community Manager Location Remote About the Role Akuity was founded by Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev — the original co-creators of Argo CD and the Argo Project. After open-sourcing Argo in 2017 and growing it into one of the most widely adopted CNCF graduated projects in the world, they started Akuity to build the enterprise platform the GitOps ecosystem deserves. Open source isn’t a strategy for us — it’s who we are. We’re looking for an Open Source Community Manager to own the health, growth, and engagement of our two flagship open source communities: Argo CD and Kargo. Argo CD is one of the most deployed CD tools in cloud-native infrastructure. Kargo, our newer project, is a GitOps-native continuous environment promotion tool that automates moving changes through dev, staging, and production without brittle scripts — already adopted by organizations like Deutsche Telekom, JumpCloud, and Cisco ThousandEyes. You’ll work directly with the maintainers (including our founders), to drive our presence at key Kubernetes, CNCF and GitOps ecosystem events, and build the programs that turn users into contributors and contributors into champions. This is a senior individual contributor role with real autonomy and high visibility — both inside Akuity and across the CNCF community. What You’ll Do Argo CD 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 What We’re Looking For Required 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 so
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