Developer Relations Lead

Role overview

Create and lead a developer relations function from the ground up for a web data product used through APIs and integrations. The role combines technical advocacy, community building, and product feedback: help developers discover and adopt the tools, while bringing their needs back to product and engineering teams. It is an individual founding role with substantial ownership over how the function develops.

Responsibilities

- Work with go-to-market colleagues to build developer awareness and support experimentation, integrations, and product adoption. - Represent the product at talks, workshops, community events, and hackathons, including shaping the event program and participating on site. - Create online engagement through developer communities and channels, and publish videos, demos, templates, sample apps, starter kits, and open-source contributions. - Develop integrations and practical examples that show how developers can use the product in their own workflows. - Gather community feedback and share useful themes with product and engineering teams. - Track impact through indicators such as integrations, open-source use, community engagement, and resulting adoption.

Requirements

- Able to write code in Python, JavaScript, or a similar language and build demos, applications, and integrations using APIs or SDKs. - Experience with technical advocacy and community building, supported by public examples such as talks, videos, demos, repositories, or posts. - Track record of organizing events, talks, or community initiatives and active participation in developer ecosystems. - Experience building a developer ecosystem, open-source initiative, or technical community from an early stage. - Strong technical writing skills and confidence presenting on camera and in person. - Comfortable working independently, making decisions, and connecting community activity to practical adoption outcomes.

Benefits and work setup

- Fully remote organization with a globally distributed team and employment managed through a third-party workforce platform. - The source mentions discounts on services and memberships, opportunities for stock options, charitable initiatives, and an annual team gathering. - The organization describes an autonomous, collaborative culture focused on ownership, transparency, and impact.