Manager, Developer Advocacy – EMEA

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

📋 Description

• Lead Developer Advocacy initiatives in the EMEA region

• Influence how developers within the area discover and engage with Temporal

• Assist key customers in building systems utilizing Temporal

• Recruit, mentor, and support a regional team of Developer Advocates

• Establish team priorities and tailor activities to suit local markets and audiences

• Balance community and customer engagements while managing requests based on deal size, stage, and strategic importance

• Collaborate with the Marketing team to organize conferences, meetups, and enhance community visibility across EMEA

• Develop and adapt talks, tutorials, blog posts, videos, sample applications, and livestreams

• Cultivate local community leaders and encourage open-source contributions

• Monitor developer signups, Temporal trials, and retention rates

• Manage the DevDays onsite customer engagement program in EMEA from inception to completion

• Identify customer engineers who can serve as champions and ensure timely follow-up

• Convey developer and customer insights to Docs, Education, and Product teams, including market demands concerning language and data residency

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or technical community engagement, preferably in a developer-centric organization

• Experience in people leadership or a clear readiness to embrace a leadership role

• Capability to mentor senior individual contributors while maintaining hands-on technical involvement

• Strong technical credibility; ability to build, demonstrate, and instruct

• Operational mindset focused on execution, including systematic program management, intake prioritization, and SLA oversight

• Comfortable working across various functions, including Sales, Solutions Architects, Developer Success, Product, and Marketing

• Experience working across a linguistically and culturally diverse region

• Experience in coordinating a distributed team across different time zones

• Proficiency in additional European languages is advantageous

• Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems like Temporal is a significant advantage

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Remote work flexibility

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

• Option to opt-out of interview recordings without affecting candidacy