React Foundation — Lead, Ecosystem & Community

The React Foundation is seeking a Lead, Ecosystem & Community to help strengthen and grow one of the most important developer ecosystems in the world.

React powers products, companies, startups, platforms, and careers across nearly every industry. The React Foundation exists to help ensure the long-term health, sustainability, stability, and growth of that ecosystem through open governance, community investment, education, collaboration, and ecosystem stewardship.

This role is focused on people, ecosystems, and communities.

You will help developers, companies, educators, maintainers, communities, organizers, and platform teams successfully build with React while strengthening the long-term health of the ecosystem itself.

This role is less focused on individual technical advocacy and more focused on strengthening the React ecosystem through community leadership, ecosystem coordination, relationship building, and strategic organizing.

Responsibilities

Ecosystem Development

• Help grow and strengthen the global React ecosystem

• Build relationships with maintainers, educators, framework authors, tooling creators, organizers, and community leaders

• Identify ecosystem gaps, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring additional support

• Help improve coordination and collaboration across the broader React ecosystem

• Support the long-term sustainability of React ecosystem projects and contributors

• Help identify and elevate important ecosystem initiatives and emerging leaders

Community Leadership

• Support and grow React communities around the world

• Help organize and coordinate:

  • community programs

  • hackathons

  • meetups

  • workshops

  • ecosystem initiatives

  • ambassador programs

  • educational efforts

• Build strong relationships with regional community organizers and technical leaders

• Foster inclusive, welcoming, and technically healthy communities

• Encourage greater participation across underrepresented regions and groups

• Help connect local communities into the broader global React ecosystem

Maintainer & Contributor Support

• Develop programs and systems that better support open source maintainers and contributors

• Help reduce friction for participation in the ecosystem

• Improve contributor onboarding and ecosystem discoverability

• Help maintainers connect with one another, collaborate, and share best practices

• Advocate internally and externally for ecosystem sustainability and maintainer health

Strategic Ecosystem Programs

• Partner with the React Foundation board, members, and ecosystem partners on strategic initiatives

• Help coordinate ecosystem-wide efforts across companies, maintainers, and communities

• Support foundation initiatives related to education, sustainability, ecosystem growth, and governance

• Assist in shaping programs that strengthen the overall health of the React ecosystem

• Help gather ecosystem feedback and sentiment to inform foundation priorities

Communication & Representation

• Represent the React Foundation publicly at conferences, events, podcasts, livestreams, and community discussions

• Help communicate the Foundation’s mission, values, and ecosystem initiatives

• Amplify important community work and ecosystem contributions

• Build trust across companies, communities, maintainers, and contributors

• Help ensure the ecosystem feels collaborative, open, and globally accessible

Qualifications

Required

• Strong experience in community leadership, ecosystem development, developer relations, open source leadership, or program management

• Deep familiarity with the React ecosystem and modern frontend development

• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills

• Strong organizational and coordination abilities

• Demonstrated experience growing communities or ecosystem programs

• Ability to work across organizations, cultures, and technical communities

• Ability to operate independently and drive initiatives forward

• Strong judgment, empathy, and collaboration skills

Preferred

• Experience organizing technical communities, conferences, meetups, or ambassador programs

• Experience working with open source communities or foundations

• Experience supporting maintainers or ecosystem sustainability efforts

• Experience working with global developer communities

• Technical background in frontend engineering or JavaScript ecosystems

• Experience working with nonprofit, standards, or governance organizations

• Public speaking or community-facing communication experience

What Success Looks Like

• React communities around the world feel more connected, supported, and empowered

• Ecosystem maintainers and organizers feel heard and invested in

• Collaboration across the React ecosystem increases

• Community participation and contributor engagement grow

• Important ecosystem initiatives receive better coordination and visibility

• Developers building with React feel more supported by the broader ecosystem

• The React ecosystem becomes healthier, more sustainable, and more resilient over time

Characteristics We Value

• Community-minded

• Systems thinker

• Strong communicator

• Relationship-oriented

• Organized and execution-focused

• Empathetic and collaborative

• Low ego, high ownership

• Comfortable operating across ambiguity

• Passionate about helping others succeed

• Deep belief in open ecosystems and community-driven development

Location

Remote-friendly. Global candidates encouraged.

About the React Foundation

The React Foundation exists to support the long-term health, stability, sustainability, and growth of the React ecosystem through open governance, ecosystem collaboration, education, and community investment.