Measurement Lab (M-Lab) Director, Technical Lead

Measurement Lab (M-Lab) Director, Technical Lead

January 13, 2025 update: Deadline extended to January 20 to apply!

We are looking for a Director, Technical Lead to help drive delivery of Measurement Lab’s projects and programs in the open internet measurement ecosystem. M-Lab’s Director, Tech Lead is a key member of the leadership team that guides and oversees M-Lab as an organization and convener in the field of internet measurement for the public interest. 

About the Role

As part of the M-Lab leadership team you will…

• Create and implement M-Lab’s strategy, impact, development and sustainability. 
• Lead M-Lab’s presence and contributions in relevant ecosystems such as Internet measurement and networking, Internet governance, Internet infrastructure and access, open source technology, Internet Freedom and Digital Equity.
• Build, develop and strengthen relationships with partnership organizations and community partners.
• Represent M-Lab’s data and research publicly at venues such as academic conferences, policy and advocacy conferences, Internet freedom convenings.
• Act as liaison between the diverse set of research ecosystems M-Lab works within including academic research, industry, Internet governance organizations, policy makers, NGOs and advocates.
• Keep up to date with Internet measurement best practices and methodologies.
• Balance short term needs with the long term health of the project.
• Lead the M-Lab team, including manage and help develop the careers and skill sets of the M-Lab team.
• This person will report to the Advisory Committee which is Chaired by Georgia Bullen. 

As a small team, there are many ways to contribute. The role of the Director, Technical Lead will ultimately be shaped according to your strengths and how they match the needs of the M-Lab team, but areas of responsibility might include a combination of the following. 

• Lead the technical implementation of M-Lab’s strategic goals across stakeholders and contributing organizations.
• Contribute code to the M-Lab project and develop and lead by example with M-Lab development best practices. 
• Ensure the technical complexity of the whole and individual projects remains manageable.
• Drive the technical roadmap and development priorities  and work with staff to implement action plans 
• Lead the development of research artifacts such as papers, presentations, convenings and data visualizations using M-Lab data and tools.
• Proactively investigate potential applications for M-Lab’s data and tools to experimental, novel areas of research. 
• Lead the curation and solicitation of new measurement services for the M-Lab platform. 

About M-Lab

• Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open Internet measurement platform invested in the improvement of the Internet in the public interest. We collect and publish over 4 million tests per day for open access to help inform policy, advocacy, research, industry and more about how the Internet is performing and evolving over time. 
• Our focus areas include internet freedom, censorship measurement, digital divide advocacy, broadband mapping, and more. 
• Our contributor ecosystems include experts in policy, advocacy (at the local, national and international level), public interest technology, software engineering, network engineering and operation, academic research, philanthropy, and more. 
• We are an all-remote team and participate in a 4-day work week. We prioritize flexibility and balance to support people to work in a way that they need. 
• We are a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science & Society, which employs via TriNet in the US and Remote.com internationally. More information about benefits is available on the Code for Science & Society Benefits and Compensation guide.
• Read about our work: 2023 Year in Review, Internet Quality Barometer Community Call, partnership with Cloudflare, Network Interference Hackathon, Measurement Swiss Army Knife (MSAK), our shift to the cloud, and our work measuring public anchor institutions such as libraries and schools.  

About You

• You have experience leading technical teams and collaboratively developing organizational strategy. 
• You have a demonstrative track record of building and delivering tools.
• You have excellent project team communication and meeting facilitation skills.
• You enjoy communicating technical concepts across multiple audiences and levels of expertise.
• You have a collaborative approach to organizational leadership and multi stakeholder consensus-building
• You have experience in open source and nonprofit ecosystems. 
• You enjoy working independently and collaboratively within a fully remote, distributed team.
• You are available to work with overlap during prime work hours where we have team members (11-6pm Central Europe / 10-5pm UK / 8-6pm US Eastern / 8-3pm US Pacific).

Nice to have

• Previous contributions or expertise in public interest Internet research areas such as broadband mapping, digital divide advocacy, censorship. measurement research, protocol development, Internet health, Internet quality, etc. 
• Experience building and architecting complex systems. 
• Experience working with external contributors across multiple organizations.
• Background in or experience with academic research.

What we offer

• This is a remote, full time position estimated at 40 hrs/week with an expected start date as soon as possible in 2025. CS&S is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based around the world. The M-Lab team works globally, with part of the core group of team members based in US-East. The team has key contributors ranging from US-Pacific to Central European Time (CET).  An ideal candidate will have availability for synchronous meetings between 9am and 3pm Eastern.
• Starting total compensation range of 100,000 to 110,000 USD annually including benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with 4% employer match), and unlimited paid time off (we encourage a minimum of one week off per quarter for all employees);
• M-Lab salaries are set at fixed levels based on the position's responsibility. This role is scoped as a coordinator or manager level position and compensation and promotion metrics are aligned with the CS&S’s Promotion Tiers and Philosophy resource. 
• Note: the CS&S policy does not apply directly to the M-Lab project, but aligns with our intentions and philosophy. 

How to Apply

• Submit a resume and cover letter, highlighting 2-3 projects that you have worked on and see as relevant to the role, including any possible links to where we can learn more about the project.
• January 13, 2025 update: Deadline extended to January 20 to apply! We review applicants on a rolling basis.