Director of Marketing Communications

Company Description

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, we're helping to solve the hardest technology problems through mass collaboration at scale.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. We have proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception. We're growing at a phenomenal rate and we're looking for experienced communications and marketing professionals to support our growing roster of open source projects.

Job Description

The Linux Foundation is seeking a Director of Marketing Communications to lead the strategy, execution, and performance of integrated marketing, communications, community and content initiatives for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

This role is ideal for a senior marketing leader who thrives at the intersection of data-driven strategy, creative storytelling, and open source technology. The ideal candidate combines deep experience in open source technology ecosystems and demonstrated success overseeing marketing teams and working closely with other internal and external stakeholders to meet marketing objectives.

As a senior leader within the Linux Foundation's central marketing organization, the Director will work closely with other project leaders to drive the growth and health of the LF's marketing and communications organization. This person will help to shape how the organization communicates marketing innovation, drives revenue growth, enables staff development and delivers world-class marketing services.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Alignment

• Oversee marketing strategy for the CNCF, guiding annual planning, SOW development, and campaign execution grounded in clear performance metrics.
• Partner with senior leadership to ensure strategic cohesion across programs, campaigns, and content pipelines.
• Build cross-functional alignment through evidence-based decision-making and performance insights.
• Drive a culture of accountability through measurable outcomes, using analytics to inform strategic investments, priorities, and resourcing.
• Has a "Player-Coach" mentality where no task is too small to dig in and complete.

Program Leadership and Innovation

Content Strategy & Editorial Excellence

Marketing Operations & Performance Management

Events & Brand Activation

Financial Management & Sustainability

Stakeholder & Community Relations

Global Collaboration & Travel

Qualifications

Additional Information

Salary $160,000 - $171,000 USD

Communications and marketing at the Linux Foundation helps expand awareness of incredible innovations that our community builds together. New and amazing stories of innovation, creativity and community come to us every week. Your expertise will help to tell these stories to a wide audience, drive engagement in developer communities, spread knowledge of cool new releases, generate media coverage for regional and national events, and promote training and certification on new technologies.