1Password

Director, Developer Relations

1Password

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $228,000 - $342,000 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Build and lead the Developer Relations team, hiring and mentoring Developer Advocates and technical engagement specialists.
  • Drive the company-wide Developer Relations strategy, focusing on the adoption of 1Password’s developer tools (CLI, SDKs, SSH, developer environments).
  • Create and maintain a feedback loop between the developer community and our internal Product and Engineering teams to improve our offerings.
  • Oversee the creation of world-class technical content, including documentation, blogs, demos, and sample code that demonstrates security best practices.
  • Represent 1Password in the global developer community, ensuring we are a trusted voice in conversations about security, privacy, and authentication.
  • Establish metrics and reporting to measure the impact of DevRel activities on product adoption and community health.
  • Partner with Marketing and Sales to translate developer love into business growth, without compromising the authenticity of the community relationship.
  • Lead the response to community crises or technical incidents, partnering with Security and Comms to provide transparent, developer-centric updates.

Requirements

  • Experience: 8+ years leading Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or Community programs, including experience with open source communities and technical platform adoption.
  • Management Experience: 5+ years experience managing individual contributors, as well as experience managing other managers.
  • Strategic Builder: Proven expertise in building DevRel strategies from the ground up, moving beyond "awareness" to driving tangible product adoption and developer success.
  • Technical Fluency: You were a full-time developer in a previous life or have deep technical fluency in modern development workflows (CI/CD, SSH, authentication standards).
  • Community Safety: Passion for fostering psychological safety and stability in complex, public-facing community environments.
  • Security Focus (Strong Plus): Experience dealing with security-conscious developer communities or products (Identity, Auth, DevSecOps) is a strong plus.
  • Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with executives, legal counsel, and the public.
  • Community Leadership: Experience facilitating sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
Benefits
  • immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
  • utilization of our generous paid time off
  • an equity grant
  • participation in our incentive programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Developer RelationsDeveloper AdvocacyCommunity programsTechnical content creationCI/CDSSHAuthentication standardsSecurity best practicesDevSecOpsTechnical fluency
Soft Skills
LeadershipMentoringCommunicationEmpathyJudgmentTactHumorPsychological safetyCommunity managementStrategic thinking