From time to time, W3C is looking for people to join the Team (Team photo, November 2008) who can help us lead the Web to its full potential. We hire people who possess insight, tact, technical understanding, and the ability to follow things through.
Lead the Web to its full potential! We are the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop the open standards that are the foundation of the Web. We are a collaborative group of highly dedicated, creative staff and member participants seeking a Managing Director to oversee our development of protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth of the Web.
Managing Director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C), to be responsible for overall management of the W3C, with the goal of furthering its ability to lead the Web to its full potential. Will also work with the director, staff, and membership in developing and communicating W3C's technical vision to the world. Will lead the W3C's management team and assume responsibility for its strategic planning, worldwide operations, and outreach; oversee all operational, financial, and legal aspects of the W3C; hire and manage staff; manage the W3C Process (the consensus-based practice under which W3C's technical specifications are developed) and sustain a culture of cooperation and transparency in operations; maintain strong working relationships with W3C's host organizations, member organizations, and prospects; and coordinate with other international organizations.
Candidates must have a background in Information Technology, with an emphasis on Web technologies and a solid understanding of the Web industry. Candidates must have excellent marketing and communication skills, including public speaking experience with technical and non-technical audiences. Recognizing the international nature of the Web and of W3C's membership and staff, candidates must have demonstrated ability to function in a similar environment, optimally including strategic management of an international organization. Candidates must have proven experience managing change and in leading a distributed and culturally diverse technical team working on complex projects. Candidates must demonstrate strong human relations skills and the ability to build consensus among disparate groups. Experience with the development of open information technology standards is desired. Fluency in English is required and fluency in a second language is a plus. An advanced degree is prefered; substantial experience in computer science, information sciences or a related discipline is essential. Residence in the Boston area with an ability to travel is required.
W3C was established in 1994 in response to growing demand for a coordination body for the rapid development of Web standards. It was founded by the inventor of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, who continues as W3C Director, and is hosted by MIT CSAIL in the USA, ERCIM in France, and Keio University in Japan, with offices in seventeen other countries. Over the last 14 years the W3C has overseen processes of issue raising, design, consensus building and testing resulting in over 120 technical standards that make the Web work, including standards for HTML, XML, XHTML, XSL, Cascading Style Sheets, Voice XML, Web accessibility, Web Services, Semantic Web, mobile Web, Web 2.0, graphics, video and many other areas of technology.
Application for the position of Managing Director of W3C is through MIT Jobs with reference to posting MIT-00006158.
Contact Keio University (Fujisawa, Japan).
Contact ERCIM (Sophia-Antipolis, France).
W3C Fellows are employees of Member organizations who join the W3C Team for specific projects and usually a predetermined duration. W3C encourages Member organizations to participate. Read about the W3C Fellows Program.