Open Source Marketing Specialist - Contractor
USA (Remote)
Posted 1 day ago
Job Summary
Own data-driven marketing and content initiatives for open source projects, partnering with project directors to drive strategy, execution, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Lead content calendars and digital campaigns across email, social, and ads
- Analyze performance, optimize workflows, and report insights to stakeholders
- Leverage AI and marketing tech to improve efficiency and ROI
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead data-driven content development and integrated marketing efforts for open source projects, ensuring alignment with organizational and project-level goals
- Act as a strategic partner to Project Directors, steering cross-functional initiatives and facilitating the implementation of key marketing decisions
- Represent project and marketing strategy in stakeholder meetings, synthesizing insights and guiding action plans with clarity and confidence
- Manage content calendars mapped to campaign milestones and stakeholder engagement objectives
- Execute digital marketing activities — including email marketing, digital advertising, and social media campaigns — using HubSpot, Sprout Social, and other modern martech platforms
- Monitor and analyze channel performance metrics across all marketing activities; optimize workflows and deliver detailed engagement reports
- Drive project presence at key industry and community events, providing strategic recommendations to maximize event ROI
- Align promotional content and assets with event schedules, product launches, and technical milestones to build awareness and drive engagement
- Lead and facilitate meetings across virtual global teams, encouraging agile decision-making and solution-oriented approaches
- Promote a culture of excellence, positivity, and continuous improvement within team and cross-functional engagements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in marketing execution, campaign management, or project coordination within technical or open source environments
- Familiarity with open source ecosystems, technical communities, and Linux Foundation projects
- Proficiency in HubSpot, social media management software, Google Workspace, and modern martech tools including AI platforms
- Strong analytical skills with proven capability to pull, interpret, and present campaign performance data
- Experience building AI agents to run marketing workflows
- Ability to work independently in a global remote environment and manage cross-functional priorities with meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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