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After open-sourcing Argo in 2017 and growing it into one of the most widely adopted CNCF graduated projects in the world, they started Akuity to build the enterprise platform the GitOps ecosystem deserves. Open source isn’t a strategy for us - it’s who we are.\nWe’re looking for an Open Source Community Manager to own the health, growth, and engagement of our two flagship open source communities: Argo CD and Kargo. Argo CD is one of the most deployed CD tools in cloud-native infrastructure. Kargo, our newer project, is a GitOps-native continuous environment promotion tool that automates moving changes through dev, staging, and production without brittle scripts - already adopted by organizations like Deutsche Telekom, JumpCloud, and Cisco ThousandEyes.\nYou’ll work directly with the maintainers (including our founders), to drive our presence at key Kubernetes, CNCF and GitOps ecosystem events, and build the programs that turn users into contributors and contributors into champions. 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