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Revision as of 08:35, 22 January 2013
History
- From Jan. 2012 - File:OSE job desc.odt
- From Nov. 2012 - OSE Organization Chart
Current Development
Job Descriptions Overview
Annotated version:
Job Descriptions - 2013
Documentation Manager
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 delivery of technical documentation for the Global Village Construction Set
- Assists ED in developing effective protocols and innovative tools for streamlining the delivery of documentation
- Produces contract scopes of work and specifications to technical writers, videographers, and other documenters
- Maintains and updates OSE Documentation Handbook, a guide for effective open source product development
- Works with Product Lead to coordinate delivery of documentation
- Engages in Talent Search of contributors
- Reports to Operations Manager
- Maintains a documenter database with assistance from Technical Community Manager
- Publishes RFPs and solicits bids for documentation work
- Collaborates with Technical Community Manager on special documentation events
Requirements
- 20+ years of librarian, technical writing, information architecture, systems design, or other technical documentation-related 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 service
- Extensive experience with project management software
- Experience with database management
- Engineering experince is a plus
- 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.
- Extensive field testing established via collaborating Pilot Projects
- 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.
- Operations Manager handles compliance (payroll/accounting outsourced; book-keeper outsourced). Operations manager writes OSE Operations Handbook.
- 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.
- Product Lead manages design-outsourced prototyping-production runs.
- Community Manager and Documentation Managers can live off-site
- Grid connection being negotiated for infrastructure facilitation
- Executive Retreat for core team bonding
Organization Chart