November 15, 2024

Headquarters: Absolutely distant corporate (international, integrated in France)

Do you care about contributing to open-source and different network reasons? We do too! 🙂
 

We’re a staff of veteran open-source builders, operating on tutorial and community-based initiatives in an open-first setting – and we’re in search of a staff member who can lend a hand us organize shopper relationships and take care of gross sales. The paintings you do will have an effect on freshmen all over the global.

Not like corporations who reluctantly began to simply accept distant staff just lately, we’ve embraced it from day 1. For the previous 10+ years, we’ve founded and subtle our method of operating round remote-friendly workflows, from the bottom up. No day-long video conferences, necessary paintings hours, or possibility of being compelled again into an workplace in the future — so long as you’ve a just right web connection, it’s none of our industry the place you’re employed from. 🙂

We’re all operating remotely, from all continents (except for Antarctica, a minimum of thus far – candidates welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows in response to asynchronous rules and just right documentation practices.
For this gross sales place, it is very important agenda time to satisfy with shoppers, that are most commonly in US time zones. So long as your agenda can overlap sufficient with america to persistently dangle conferences with potentialities, you’ll be able to paintings the place you favor.

Contracting phrases

This can be a part-time to full-time, everlasting contract place, billable hourly. We goal for long-term relationships — as soon as in, nearly all staff individuals keep for a few years. 

We care about paying somewhat: 

  • Staff individuals set their very own reimbursement degree, which is paid in response to hours labored (no unpaid additional time!). 
  • When figuring out your fee, we can be expecting you to consider advantages (holiday, healthcare, acquire budgets, and so forth.) – the theory is to let you pick out the advantages which might be helpful to you, reasonably than be offering one-size-fits-all programs that aren’t at all times very precious.
  • We additionally proactively observe beneficiant raises team-wide, in response to the corporate effects on the finish of each and every yr. See the main points about how we way reimbursement in our guide.

We additionally firmly consider in work-life stability: so long as you ship what you decide to, there may be a large number of latitude in how a lot paintings you’ll be able to select to simply accept. We’re open to time commitments anyplace within the 20h to 40h/week vary, and extremely discourage operating greater than that. It’s vital to have time to ourselves, in addition to having some slack, and there are diminishing returns in operating extra anyway.

We’re a extremely collaborative building staff operating in an agile setting. We’ve constructed a most commonly flat group, composed of 30 senior device builders with a handful of enhance body of workers. You’ll be operating with extremely competent people who take accountability for his or her paintings, and the similar shall be anticipated of you.
We belong to self-organized groups, so control doesn’t intervene with our day by day obligations and management is situational. You’ll lead some initiatives and sign up for others. You’ll have a substantial amount of discretion within the paintings that you simply do and far of your paintings shall be publicly viewable. Staff individuals are frequently finding out from each and every different, and we position an emphasis on sustainable paintings practices and psychological well being. We lend a hand each and every different out when the sudden occurs and provides kudos and popularity for paintings smartly achieved.
Camaraderie is robust, requirements are prime, and so is the retention fee. We spend money on documentation and automation in order that redundant paintings is minimized and staff individuals can focal point on extra attention-grabbing issues. The paintings is totally distant – maximum making plans is finished asynchronously, and the dash procedure itself is iteratively stepped forward. We focal point on minimizing conferences so after they do occur it’s for productive causes. So as to be certain that we nonetheless get some face time, we agenda not obligatory social occasions to speak, play video games, and have interaction in different actions. We additionally meet every year in particular person on the Open edX Convention, and use the chance to satisfy everybody, at the side of the remainder of the network, and do a staff retreat.
OpenCraft runs at the open first theory. Maximum of our conversations, code, and insurance policies are publicly viewable.

We welcome candidates of all genders and ethnicities.

Fundamental Necessities:

  • Revel in in gross sales and buyer account control
  • Ok with protecting conferences, appearing displays and talking publicly
  • Sturdy English conversation abilities, each written and spoken
  • Sturdy interpersonal abilities
  • Convenience with operating with a most commonly asynchronous staff (maximum communications shall be over e mail)
  • Can-do perspective
  • Consideration to element

This stuff are a plus and more potent attention shall be given to applicants who can meet those:

  • Revel in with Computer systems. Should you’ve dabbled with code, otherwise you’re the only everybody for your circle of relatives insects to mend their printer, that’s a robust plus.
  • Wisdom of the training academia and trade – particularly on-line finding out, MOOCs or the Open edX on-line route platform
  • Revel in Collaborating in collaborative on-line communities – eg. boards, video games, open supply
  • Weblog publish and/or copywriting revel in
  • Familiarity with venture making plans equipment like Jira, Trello, or GitLab
  • Talent with Google Sheets or different Spreadsheet techniques

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