About The Symbian Foundation
Open software is the basic building block for a converged mobile experience. By 2010 we expect four billion people to have joined the global mobile conversation. For many of these people, their mobile will be their first Internet experience, not just their first camera, music player or phone.

With this in mind, industry leaders are coming together to establish Symbian Foundation, to bring to life a shared vision and to create the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform - available for free. To achieve this, the foundation will unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) software to create an unparalleled open software platform for converged mobile devices, enabling the whole mobile ecosystem to accelerate innovation. Find out more at www.symbian.org

Department Overview
The Community Engagement team is primarily focused on raising the profile of the Symbian Foundation amongst its target audiences. The team is also focused on communicating the success and benefits of its engagement with the Symbian community. Members of this team will help with communicating the foundation’s role as collaborator and innovation enabler within the mobile open source community.

Role Synopsis

• To evangelize and broaden the community of developers committed to building applications on the Symbian platform.
• Educate developers and companies on the ease, flexibility, and power of the Symbian platform and drive awareness and participation in the ecosystem.
• Leading a global team of people executing these programs.
• Creating a strategy for developer engagement.
• Guiding detailed planning process to coordinate global activities.

Key Tasks

• Provide programs which offer education, tools, and services that encourage the development of Symbian based applications by attracting and leveraging a volunteer structure.
• Encourage community participation through the promotion of individual developers, companies, and successful applications.
• Align programs and activities with key partners including OEMs, Carriers, and tools providers.
• Drive awareness through global education by highlighting the ease, flexibility and power of the Symbian platform.
• Increase the number and availability of applications through contests, hackathons, workshops and social media strategy.
• Ensuring the quality of the applications published.
• Recruit Fortune 1000 companies to include Symbian in their mobile strategy.
• Support and collaborate with strategic partners (OEMs, Carriers, Tools)
• Help build an ecosystem of established and first time developers through SIG’s, University programs and Entrepreneur programs.
• Establish Symbian as a leading mobile development platform by building a robust community of volunteers, developers, and companies thus creating more opportunities for the community to monetize applications and services.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience with managing a broad range of relationship’s from engineers to external vendors to customers.
• Strong understanding of a developer community as a community manager or as a manager of developer programs in the past as well as familiarity with the open source community.
• Familiarity working with web development methodologies such as API’s, Web Runtimes and other development technologies such as Java, Python, C++, Flash and Adobe.
• Experience providing strategic direction to the executive team as well to their individual team.
• Experience managing a remote team or previous global management experience as the volunteer base will be worldwide.
• Strong interest and willingness to develop online presence, ideally you will have your own blog and be active on social networking portals

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with mobile background is highly desirable.

Personal Skills

• Personal leadership
• Community Engagement and Management, Networking
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Change Oriented – happy to embrace change and new ways of doing things
• Rational, analytical, and pragmatic problem solving

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of progressive experience in developer programs or developer outreach related functions.
• Bachelor's degree (or above) in Marketing, Business or Economics.