Open Source Community Growth Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 138,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an Open Source Community Manager to bridge internal energy with external developers for Kiro Crew.

You’ll own community operations, shaping engagement, onboarding newcomers, and shepherding contributions, with close collaboration across engineering, product, and product marketing. You’ll design programs to grow the contributor base, run events, publish tutorials, and translate developer feedback into roadmap insights.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional non‑internship marketing experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements.
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Run the community day to day: triage issues, moderate channels, route questions, keep response times low.
• Build newcomer‑to‑contributor pipeline: design welcome flows, starter docs, good first issues, mentorship.
• Run recurring rituals: community calls, office hours, AMAs, and challenges that turn visitors into regulars.
• Create content and represent the project: blogs, tutorials, samples; participate in meetups and conferences.
• Amplify releases: turn changelogs into launch stories across channels and social.
• Drive audience growth: identify channels, run experiments, measure contributors who stay.
• Be the community's voice inside AWS; feed roadmap with developer pain points.

Skills

Marketing

Data‑driven decisions

Cross‑functional collaboration

Communications

Tools

Salesforce

Tableau

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an Open Source Community Manager to bridge internal energy with external developers for Kiro Crew.

You’ll own community operations, shaping engagement, onboarding newcomers, and shepherding contributions, with close collaboration across engineering, product, and product marketing. You’ll design programs to grow the contributor base, run events, publish tutorials, and translate developer feedback into roadmap insights.