Application deadline: 22 May 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
About DC-EDIC
The Digital Commons EDIC is a European consortium that develops, maintains, and scales digital commons: open-source software, open standards, and shared digital infrastructure for public administrations, enterprises, and citizens. Established under the EU Digital Decade programme, we bring together EU Member States to pool resources and invest collectively in open technologies that reduce Europe’s dependency on external providers.
Five founding members (France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands), seven observers, and growing. We launched in December 2025 and are now assembling our founding team in Paris. This is a rare chance to shape a European organisation from its earliest months.
Our Values
- Openness: Open collaboration, open standards, open source.
- Sustainability: We support digital commons that are resilient and community-driven.
- Collaboration: Inclusive models involving public actors, civil society, academia, industry, and technical communities.
- EU digital public space: Digital ecosystems that reinforce fundamental rights, public participation, and transparent governance.
Your Role
The DC-EDIC supports digital commons through a growing set of projects: challenge campaigns (multinational development sprints), ecosystem mapping and pilot projects, a maintenance funding partnership, and direct technical cooperation between member states’ open-source building blocks. New formats will emerge as the EDIC matures.
This is the person who makes projects happen and carries the technical and open-source dimension within the team. From scoping and partner coordination to delivery and evaluation, you work closely with the Ecosystem Manager (who runs the one-stop-shop and expertise hub) and national technical leads to ensure projects land and learnings feed back into strategy. You are also the EDIC’s internal technical authority: the person who can evaluate architectures, challenge technical proposals, and hold your own in dialogue with developers and standards bodies.
What You’ll Do
Project portfolio
- Run the full range of EDIC-supported projects: challenge campaigns (including hands-on events: hackathons, install parties, demo days), ecosystem mapping and pilots, maintenance funding partnerships, bilateral cooperation between member states
- Coordinate challenge campaigns end-to-end with national partners: scoping, partner alignment, event delivery, selection panel support
- Connect the dots across projects: translate mapping outputs into challenge scoping, feed project learnings back into strategy
- Track execution: milestones, risks, quality, cross-country coordination
- Evaluate outcomes and report to funders and governance bodies
- Help design new project formats as the mission expands
Technical input
- Advise the Director on the interoperability roadmap between national building blocks across member states
- Assess technical maturity, dependencies, and sustainability risks of candidate digital commons
- Contribute to the Implementation Strategy on technical chapters
- Coordinate with national technical leads on implementation questions
What We’re Looking For
Required
- 5+ years in project management: innovation, acceleration, incubation, or EU programme management
- Strong technical background in software architecture, interoperability standards, or open-source infrastructure — able to read and review technical specifications, not just manage them
- Practical familiarity with open-source ecosystems, digital commons, or public-interest technology
- Proven ability to manage complex multi-stakeholder projects with clarity
- Fluent English (working language)
- Adaptable and hands-on in a small founding team; able to handle evolving priorities and operational tasks beyond a narrow job description
Nice to have
- Other EU languages
- Existing network in European open-source communities
- Experience with standards bodies, interoperability frameworks (ISA2, Interoperable Europe), or technical coordination across distributed teams
- Previous work with community-driven open-source programmes, public-interest technology funds, or national digital commons/open-source initiatives
Practical Details
- Permanent contract (CDI, French law, forfait jours)
- Salary commensurate with national public-sector standards
- Complementary health insurance and provident fund (mutuelle and prévoyance), employer contribution above legal minimum
- Generous leave policy (paid leave + RTT days linked to forfait jours)
- 50% public transport reimbursement
- Work-related travel expenses are reimbursed according to EDIC policy.
- Based in Paris, with flexible remote work arrangements, regular weekly presence expected, and significant travel across Europe
- Candidates relocating to Paris may benefit from practical support with moving and settling in. Commuting arrangements can be discussed on a case-by-case basis, subject to operational needs and legal/employment constraints.
- Start date: as soon as possible
Why Join Us
You join a five-person founding team building a European organisation from scratch. The work matters: open-source infrastructure for Europe. You will shape how this organisation runs, not inherit a fixed playbook. Paris-based, with flexible remote work, regular weekly presence, and regular travel across Europe. French law contract (forfait jours).
How to Apply
Send your CV and a short cover letter (max one page) to hr@digital-commons-edic.eu with the subject line “Programme & Technical Manager”. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Equal Opportunity
The DC-EDIC is committed to transparent and non-discriminatory recruitment. We welcome applications regardless of nationality, gender, origin, disability or age.