Head of Developer Relations
LaunchDarkly
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $163,000 - $263,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Develop and lead the strategy for Developer Relations and Experience with a focus on enabling developer success in ways that naturally support product adoption and customer value.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a multi disciplinary DevRel organization.
- Establish strong, collaborative ways of working with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Growth, and Docs to ensure developers receive a unified and consistent experience.
- Influence cross team strategy and roadmap decisions that support awareness, activation, and usage among developers. Drive hands on activations that advance these goals.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure that onboarding, tutorials, demos, quick starts, guides, and evaluation flows are intuitive and high-quality.
- Create scalable ways to help teams adopt LaunchDarkly with minimal friction by using developer feedback to shape our approach. Deliver hands on programs that support growth toward more mature delivery practices.
- Partner with Product and Docs to shape and support a documentation strategy that serves both traditional learning and AI assisted workflows.
- Develop practical guidance and examples that help teams address real challenges in their delivery process so they can ship safely and with confidence.
- Partner with go-to-market teams to shape narratives that resonate with developers and technical decision makers.
- Represent LaunchDarkly at meetups, conferences, online communities, and industry events.
- Build and nurture community programs, developer events, and workshops.
- Build relationships with influencers, contributors, and technical champions, and collaborate with them to broaden reach and support more teams in improving their delivery practices.
- Amplify customer stories, use cases, and product launches through developer facing channels.
- Establish structured, prioritized feedback loops between developers and internal teams, shaping product and documentation improvements.
- Identify friction across the developer journey and partner cross functionally to remove it.
- Ensure that LaunchDarkly consistently delivers an experience that meets the expectations of modern software teams.
Requirements
- Typically brings at least 15 years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Experience, or related technical advocacy roles
- Strong technical foundation; able to discuss APIs, SDKs, integrations, and developer workflows with credibility
- Proven track record building communities, programs, and content that resonate with developers
- Excellent communication and public speaking skills
- Ability to partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Growth teams
- Experience shaping developer onboarding, documentation, and engagement programs
- Experience supporting PLG and self-serve product motions through content, demos, and advocacy
- Hands-on experience creating technical content (talks, blogs, videos, sample apps, demos)
- Established presence or reputation within developer communities or open-source ecosystems
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Mental health benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
APIsSDKsintegrationsdeveloper workflowstechnical content creationonboarding programsdocumentation strategycommunity buildingprogram developmentcontent advocacy
Soft skills
communicationpublic speakingmentoringcollaborationinfluencerelationship buildingcommunity engagementstrategic thinkingproblem solvingfeedback management