Open Source Strategy & Community Lead

Mbianchi; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Mbianchi is seeking a senior Open Source and OSPO lead to own the strategy and align upstream contributions with product direction. You will build credible programs, improve release and contributor processes, and create technical docs, talks, and demos grounded in real engineering work.

You will scale community initiatives, recognize contributors, and ensure feedback loops drive product improvements while maintaining trust in the open-source ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 7+ years across software engineering, open source, developer relations, or technical community leadership.
• Maintained or contributed upstream to a significant open-source project.
• Strong public speaking, writing, teaching, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience working with engineering, product, marketing, legal, OSPO, field, and executive stakeholders.
• Able to measure community health beyond vanity metrics.

Responsibilities

• Develop open-source and OSPO strategy with clear goals for upstream contribution, governance, adoption, and product alignment.
• Contribute technically, improve release and contributor processes, and remove friction for contributors.
• Create technical documentation, talks, workshops, demos, and examples grounded in real engineering work.
• Build contributor recognition, mentoring, events, and community programmes at scale.
• Bring community and customer evidence back to product and engineering teams in actionable form.

Skills

Open source

Developer relations

Community leadership

Public speaking

Technical writing

Facilitation

Mentoring

Job description

Mbianchi is seeking a senior Open Source and OSPO lead to own the strategy and align upstream contributions with product direction. You will build credible programs, improve release and contributor processes, and create technical docs, talks, and demos grounded in real engineering work.

You will scale community initiatives, recognize contributors, and ensure feedback loops drive product improvements while maintaining trust in the open-source ecosystem.