Head of Developer Relations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a globally distributed team of developer advocates.

• Establish ClickHouse’s long-term developer and community strategy in collaboration with marketing, product, and engineering leadership.

• Transform strategy into a comprehensive multi-year plan that includes headcount, budget, and investment priorities.

• Oversee the developer experience, which encompasses time-to-first-query, onboarding completion, friction logs, documentation, and product feedback loops.

• Manage the Developer Relations budget and serve as the representative for the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community.

• Set and report on targets related to community growth, engagement, developer experience, content, and channel reach.

• Build and expand the champions program for customers, open-source users, and independent voices.

• Create developer-focused owned channels, including YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, and advocates’ platforms.

• Develop a content system that converts talks or demos into tutorials, videos, and posts.

• Oversee the developer-event portfolio, which includes meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions.

• Shape developer education and technical content including tutorials, workshops, courses, and certification programs.

• Collaborate with regional field marketing on in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading a developer relations or community team within an infrastructure company.

• Direct management experience of four or more team members.

• Strong leadership capabilities for a distributed team.

• In-depth technical skills, including the ability to write demos, create tutorials, and understand database functionality.

• Experience in organizing developer events and speaking programs.

• Background in developing developer education or content programs, such as tutorials, courses, videos, or documentation.

• Experience in growing owned developer channels, including YouTube, newsletters, or podcasts.

• Proven ability to build or scale champions, ambassador, or MVP programs.

• Experience in measuring community growth, engagement, signups, and pipeline performance.

• Comfortable operating in a global, cross-functional environment with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams.

• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time.

• Experience in DevRel or community leadership within an open-source project with a genuine community.

• Proven track record of nurturing an open-source community while maintaining its trust.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employer contributions towards healthcare.

• Stock options/equity in the company.

• Flexible time off in the US; generous entitlement in other countries.

• USD$500 home office setup allowance for remote employees.

• Opportunities to connect with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

• Flexible work environment.

• Remote-friendly work arrangement.