OSE Job Descriptions 2013

History

• From Jan. 2012 - File:OSE job desc.odt
• From Nov. 2012 - OSE Organization Chart

Current Development

Talent Search Specification.

Job Descriptions Overview

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Job Descriptions

Executive Director

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• Recruiting and Strategic Partnerships - Recruits and on-boards executive team - (1) Operations Manager, (2) Product Lead, (3) Community Manager, and (4), Documentation Manager. Approves all hires, contractors, and volunteers. Develops strategic partnerships (30%).
• Standards Development: Develops documentation and development standards with assistance from Executive Team, and oversees execution (30%).
• Structuring and Oversight - Implements legal/financial compliance and operations. Manages executive team. (20%)
• Plan and Budget - Defines development plan and budget (20%).

Operations Manager

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General

• Executive position - responsible for managing a complex and rapidly-growing organization with intent to scale from <$500k to multimillion dollar budget
• Long-term intent, full time offer with half-time tele-commuting allowed
• Intent of position is to grow with organization
• Competitive salary based on experience and culture fit
• Kansas City or New York City location
• Official title: Operations Manager, promotion track to Chief Operations Officer

Role Description

• Responsible for managing a full range of Open Source Ecology Operations - design, machine builds, production runs, hackathons, special events, construction, video documentation, communications, fundraising, office operations, facility maintenance and upgrades, and others
• Assists ED in developing organizational structure, infrastructure, and protocols - including office, internet, and prototyping infrastructure
• Manages a for-profit branch of OSE operations
• Maintains and Updates OSE Operations Handbook (everything from email handling for the Assistant, blogging procedures, to financial controls)
• Oversees facility and its development/production program
• Oversees all budgets and digests them for review by ED
• Composes and negotiates contracts for staff and contractors, and assists other executives in composing/negotiating contracts
• Helps ED in recruiting, and makes hiring suggestions
• Reports to ED, and helps ED manage other executives

Requirements

• MBA preferred
• 20+ years of executive-level operations management experience
• Experience in interviewing
• Executive management experience of $10M+ organziations
• Executive experience in managing $10M+ budgets
• Excellent communication and conflict resolution skills
• Excellent mentorship and team building skills
• Track record of community service, and humanitarian service
• Event and hackathon organizing experience
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Extensive experience with project management software
• Hacker, hands-on, DIY culture with respect to open source hardware
• Engineering experience is a plus
• Willingness to migrate to Linux OSE computer platform

Documentation Manager

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General

• Executive position - responsible for assuring ongoing delivery of technical documentation for the Global Village Construction Set machines
• Long-term intent, full time offer; may tele-commute
• 40 hour minimum work week
• Intent of position is to grow with the organization
• Competitive salary based on experience and culture fit
• Kansas City or New York City location
• Official title: Documentation Manager, promotion track to Documentation Director

Role Description

• Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of dedicated staff and contract-based developers - designers, fabricators, engineers, consultants, and others
• Assists ED in developing effective protocols for streamlining development
• Provides contract scopes of work and specifications to developers
• Maintains and updates OSE Development Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
• Works with Documentation Manager to assure delivery of documentation
• Engages in Talent Search of contributors
• Reports to Operations Manager
• Maintains a contributor database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
• Publishes RFPs and solicits bids
• Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special development events

Requirements

• 20+ years of engineering experience
• Experience in interviewing
• Excellent communication in written, verbal, email, and video forms
• Conflict resolution skills
• Keen ability to identify and recruit talent
• Excellent team working skills
• Track record of community and humanitarian service
• Extensive experience with project management software
• Extensive experience with database management
• Engineering management experience
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Willingness to migrate to Linux as the OSE computer platform

Technical Community Manager

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General

• Executive position - responsible for managing remote technical contributions in a complex and rapidly-growing organization
• Long-term intent, full time offer
• May work via tele-commuting
• Intent of position is to grow with organization
• Competitive salary based on experience and culture fit
• Kansas City or New York City location
• Official title: Technical Community Manager, promotion track to Director of Community and Culture

Role Description

• Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of Open Source Ecology stakeholders - designers, fabricators, builders, architects, engineers, videographers, technical writers, students, and others
• Assists ED in developing effective protocols for leveraging and streamlining contributions from a wide range of remote collaborators
• Maintains and Updates OSE Community Handbook, a guide for remote collaborators
• Feeds contributor output to Documentation Manager and Product Lead
• Recruits, negotiates and formalizes participation of remote contributors
• Reports to Operations Manager
• Maintains a contributor database
• Organizes special events, hackathons, Flash Mobs, and other Crowd Design and Manufacturing sessions

Requirements

• 10+ years of community management experience
• Experience in interviewing
• Excellent communication in written, verbal, email, and video forms
• Conflict resolution skills
• Keen ability to identify, develop, and leverage talent from a global community
• Excellent mentorship and team building skills
• Track record of community and humanitarian service
• Extensive experience with project management software
• Extensive experience with database management
• Engineering management experience is a plus
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Willingness to migrate to Linux as the OSE computer platform

Product Lead

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General

• Executive position - responsible for managing core work of design and prototyping of Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) machines
• Long-term intent, full time offer, may tele-commute 50% of time
• 40 hour minimum work week, with extra time as demanded in startup mode or for deadlines
• Intent of position is to grow with the organization
• Competitive salary based on experience and culture fit
• Kansas City or New York City location
• Official title: Product Lead, promotion track to Chief Technical Officer

Role Description

• Responsible for managing technical contributions from a broad range of dedicated staff and contract-based developers - designers, fabricators, engineers, consultants, and others
• Assists ED in developing effective protocols for streamlining development
• Provides contract scopes of work and specifications to developers
• Maintains and updates OSE Development Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
• Works with Documentation Manager to assure delivery of documentation
• Engages in Talent Search of contributors
• Reports to Operations Manager
• Maintains a contributor database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
• Publishes RFPs and solicits bids
• Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special development events

Requirements

• 20+ years of engineering experience
• Experience in interviewing
• Excellent communication in written, verbal, email, and video forms
• Conflict resolution skills
• Keen ability to identify and recruit talent
• Excellent team working skills
• Track record of community and humanitarian service
• Extensive experience with project management software
• Extensive experience with database management
• Engineering management experience
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Willingness to migrate to Linux as the OSE computer platform

Desired Outputs

• Executive Director - $2M in additional resources secured through strategic partnerships and strategic deployment; 3-5 major new strategic relationships started; high quality staff recruited; realistic Deployment Plan and Budget defined and executed
• Operations Manager - development and site operations stabilized, contracts for prototyping drawn up and managed effectively for full chain from design to documentation; site operations stabilized
• Documentation Manager - implements a solid documentation protocol; successful pipeline to crowd-sourced documentation and vidoe production established; organizes existing documentation for prototypes built.
• Product Lead (Head of R&D) - open hardware development protocol stabilized and beginning to scale; Deployment Plan for prototypes executed successfully.
• Community Manager - Successful pipeline of contributors developed to leverage the power of crowd-based contributions
• Fundraising - $500k raised

General Role Division Strategy

As the company grows, it is critical to focus jobs on critical tasks and nothing else. Only upon these tasks being executed with excellence should other tasks be added.

1. Extensive field testing established via collaborating Pilot Projects
2. Executive Director recruits Operations Manager to set up and stabilize Operations and legal compliance. Aggressive recruiting. If operations are pared down to the minimum essential (scalable platform for machine builds + documentation via careful contract management), then Ops Manager focuses on establishing Core Work contracts with Developers, in addition to money/legal/payroll.
3. Operations Manager handles compliance (payroll/accounting outsourced; book-keeper outsourced). Operations manager writes OSE Operations Handbook.
4. No dedicated video producer exists; Documentation Manager writes instructionals scripts and outsources video production from crowd contributions; Dedicated Project Visits for video work are also used. Potential H2 channel collaboration pending structuring/construction deliverables.
5. Product Lead manages design-outsourced prototyping-production runs.
6. Community Manager and Documentation Managers can live off-site
7. Grid connection being negotiated for infrastructure facilitation
8. Executive Retreat for core team bonding

Organization Chart

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