Manager, Developer Advocacy (EMEA)

Role overview Lead developer advocacy across EMEA, helping developers discover and adopt a technical platform while supporting customers as they build production systems. This is a player-coach role: manage a distributed team and regional programs while continuing to create technical content, deliver talks and workshops, build demonstrations, and work directly with customers.

Responsibilities - Hire, coach, and support advocates across the region, setting shared priorities while allowing for local needs. - Balance community programs with customer requests, prioritizing engagement by opportunity and strategic value while protecting time for community work. - Plan regional conference and meetup participation with marketing partners. - Create and adapt talks, tutorials, articles, videos, sample applications, and live demonstrations for local developer audiences. - Support community leaders and open-source participation, and measure whether engagement leads to discovery, trials, and continued use. - Run onsite customer engagement programs, identify potential technical champions, and relay regional feedback to documentation, education, and product teams.

Requirements - Background in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or technical community work. - People leadership experience or readiness to coach experienced individual contributors while remaining hands-on. - Technical credibility to build and teach working examples and engage senior enterprise engineers. - Strong program operations skills, including request prioritization, dependable follow-through, and service-level commitments. - Ability to collaborate with marketing, sales, customer success, product, and technical teams, connecting technical work to business outcomes. - Experience working across diverse cultures and languages and coordinating distributed teams across time zones.

Nice to have Additional European languages and knowledge of workflow orchestration, durable execution, or distributed systems.