Open Source Software Author/CTO

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Responsibilities

• ▹Manage and contribute to your project and company full-time, leveraging OCV resources including CEO sourcing
• ▹Conduct customer discovery and use iterative feedback to build a commercial arm around your open-source project
• ▹Grow your open-source community alongside your business, advancing OCV's mission

Requirements

• ▹Made significant contributions to an open-source project with an existing community
• ▹Strong enthusiasm and excitement about being a company founder
• ▹Understanding of basic startup considerations

Nice to have

• ▹Created or is the author/owner of the open-source project
• ▹Prior entrepreneurial experience as a founder

Soft skills

About the company

Open Core Ventures (OCV) is a venture capital firm that starts commercial open-source software companies: it identifies open-source projects with traction, recruits passionate founders and contributors, and launches new companies around them. GitLab founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij serves as OCV's General Partner.