Head of Developer Experience

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the developer experience, guiding engineers in building, translating, verifying, and reviewing agent work, with FDEs as the primary users.

• Standardize effective field practices, determine which initiatives transition to commercial products versus custom solutions, validate with design partners, and launch products to market.

• Integrate and standardize FDE tools and pipelines, capture repeatable patterns, and decide which initiatives become commercial products.

• Establish a dependable feedback mechanism for product enhancements based on air-gapped and secure deployments.

• Lead the strategy and roadmap for developer interfaces, making iterative improvements directly.

• Transform validated FDE workflows into user-friendly interfaces, templates, skills, and guided processes.

• Highlight lifecycle artifacts and provide auditable proof within review workflows, enabling customers to encode their standards.

• Test products with 3–5 commercial engineering teams while tracking adoption and ROI metrics.

• Create demos, videos, and presentations; collaborate with Sales and Growth on product packaging, positioning, and launches.

• Assist in hiring for the expanding product team and guide and mentor PMs and design personnel.

• Report directly to the SVP, Head of Product.

• Meet six-month objectives, including integrating FDE tooling, establishing secure-environment feedback processes, minimizing custom code, onboarding new hires, collaborating with 3–5 design partners, and achieving the first commercial release.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management, technical consulting, or solutions leadership and management.

• Proven history of developing tools that enhance the efficiency of delivery teams and transforming services into repeatable commercial products.

• Responsibility for P&L or revenue for a product line.

• Hands-on experience with agentic developer tools and AI-assisted SDLC, including leading their enterprise adoption.

• A proven ability to simplify complex challenges and identify elegant product solutions.

• Strong product judgment to distinguish between one-off customer requests and repeatable product needs, combined with the discipline to decline unnecessary requests.

• Quick to adapt to complex technical domains and build credibility with engineers and technical founders.

• Excellent writing and presentation skills, able to convey complex technical concepts clearly to executives, engineers, and customers.

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance if required.

• Experience in consulting or professional services, particularly in product development alongside delivery teams (preferred).

• Background in building products for developers, engineers, or highly technical users (preferred).

• Familiarity with government, defense, or other regulated sectors (preferred).

• A public portfolio showcasing expertise in AI adoption, agentic engineering, or software strategy (preferred).

• Experience in mentoring product managers and building teams from the ground up (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health care plan with full premium coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.

• 401k plan with 5% matching contributions.

• Generous Paid Time Off policy (uncapped vacation, plus sick days and public holidays).

• Flexible hybrid or remote work arrangements available.

• Relocation assistance provided for qualifying employees.