Head of Ecosystem

Role overview

Build and lead an engineering organization responsible for the integrations, partner platforms, and marketplace that extend a developer backend into the tools teams already use. The role spans org design, technical partnerships, product strategy, and the delivery of a unified self-service experience.

Responsibilities

- Establish and grow teams across platform partnerships, integrations, and marketplace; hire and develop engineering managers and engineers. - Own the technical health of integrations with external platforms and coordinate escalations. - Set roadmaps that balance partner needs with platform priorities, and maintain clear execution and accountability. - Work with Product, Partnerships, and Sales to shape and deliver ecosystem strategy. - Build a unified self-service experience for integrations and marketplace offerings. - Set expectations for engineering quality, including issue tracking, on-call operations, incident response, and partner communication.

Requirements

- Experience leading multiple engineering teams, including managers, and growing an organization from a small base. - Background building and operating production platforms, APIs, or integrations used by third parties. - Technical credibility with partner engineering teams and sound judgment in setting boundaries. - Strong planning, execution, and communication skills, including work with product and commercial teams. - Experience leading remote, globally distributed teams. - Collaborative, adaptable leadership style and a record of developing people.

Nice to have

- Experience with OAuth, platform APIs, or app marketplaces. - Work on a developer platform's partner ecosystem, or with AI app builders or coding agents.

Benefits and work setup

- Fully remote, globally; coworking support is available. - Equity participation, a technology setup allowance, health coverage, and an annual learning allowance. - Flexible, asynchronous work and annual team gatherings.