AdaCAD Community Manager

We are hiring a community manager to grow a vibrant, active, and supportive community for people who engage weaving as a form of experimentation in their research and/or art practice.

Currently, our community consists of a set of users, contributors, and resources for AdaCAD , a specific piece of open-source design software we developed to support the creation of complex woven textiles. The software supports about 500 monthly users who share their practices and communicate with the project team via Instagram, Discord, or direct email messaging. With the support of a National Science Foundation grant , we seek to increase our engagement with user and contributor communities as well as broader communities with relevant practices.

In other words, we aim to grow beyond a community focused on AdaCAD to a community focused on open experimental weaving resources more broadly.

Our team currently consists of four people who are also faculty or PhD students at the university. We work with about 2-4 international contributors at a time to collaboratively create new features and resources for the community. We release these resources within our software,  , and documentation, cad.org . We look for feedback in conversation with a group of advisors who occupy positions in teaching, research, and industry across open-source creative code and weaving communities.

The relationships we build through the software and community often become the grounds for future research projects, which we publish in venues aligned with human-computer interaction and design research. We aim for the community manager to join our leadership team to provide extra support for outreach; engagement with our board; and support for our contributors in forms that have previously exceeded our capacity.

To these ends, The Community Manager is responsible for developing strategy and managing programs that will help us grow, understand, engage, and co-develop resources with our community members. This will include organizing and leading quarterly governance meetings to identify key priorities and directions for the community; developing programs and pathways for users and contributors to meaningfully participate in project governance; and creating spaces to showcase community members within our existing landscape of websites and resources.

• Apply By:
  November 20, 2026
• Starting Date:
  February 1, 2027
• Position Duration: 18 months
• Modality:
  Remote (with options for in person if so desired)
• Hours:
  
  30 - 40 hours per week, depending on candidate preference

If you would like to better understand our project and community, we think these resources can help!