https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/o0590fwY
This role isn’t for the timid or the bombastic; we need a steady hand who can manage and refine the many elements of a complex project supported by three large organizations and aimed at a widely varied constituency. We believe there’s a great deal of potential still to be unlocked in online communities. We recognize the challenges, but the Coral Project is uniquely positioned to help news organizations find healthy ways to grow. You’ll change the way people use the web, in ways that help news organizations and their readers thrive online.
We want our Project Lead to:
- Lead the day-to-day operations of an ambitious project with multiple stakeholders
- Manage schedules, deliverables, and budgets with our Lead Developer
- Work with the Lead Developer to ensure that our broad architecture plan meshes with on-the-ground development, and that both are aimed to serve users and publishers
- Coordinate the look, feel, and behavior of the new platform with the Lead Designer, and ensure cohesion between our development and design teams
- Collaborate with the Project Strategy Lead (focused on partnerships and strategy) and Community Manager (focused on the open source development community) to build and maintain healthy and productive relationships with partners and stakeholders outside the core development group
- Ensure that the voice of the user is represented in all of the decisions we make and in all of the software we create.
Our ideal candidate will have solid experience in guiding a collaborative, iterative process that helps tools and products take shape. You’ll lead the team toward prototypes in search of answers to complex questions, learn from what you launch, and apply those lessons to the next thing you build. You’ll be creating components for a software platform that connects news publishers and users in new and mutually useful ways.
If you’re deeply interested in working on technical problems within journalism and have relevant skills and experience, please consider applying even if your background doesn’t perfectly match our ideal credentials. We are committed to diversity and especially encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply.
About the Coral Project
The Coral Project is a multi-year effort to lead experiments in community growth and management, seeking ways to improve the state of user-generated contributions on the Internet through open-source software.
Our aim is to build a small core and a host of discrete, interoperable technology components to tackle areas like automated moderation, community analytics, notifications and so on. These plugins could work together or in concert with existing systems.
This project is a collaboration between Mozilla, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and will be located in a dedicated space at The Times’s headquarters in New York. This collaboration allows the project to draw on the experience and reach of large organizations but create a platform and practices for everyone.
Before applying, it’s important that you understand that your application information may be shared with partner organizations (where required as part of this recruitment exercise), and that you’re happy with us handling your information as we outline in our privacy policy (www.mozilla.org/privacy).