Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy – NAMER

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

📋 Description

• Lead and manage the Developer Advocacy team for Temporal in North America.

• Oversee, mentor, and develop Developer Advocates by establishing goals, expectations, and feedback mechanisms.

• Collaborate on presentations, assess demos, co-create content, and assist advocates in enhancing their public speaking skills.

• Define the team's strategic planning, event participation, content development pipeline, and quality assurance processes.

• Formulate strategies to boost developer awareness and consideration of Temporal within North America.

• Expand Temporal’s online developer community through effective content strategies and channels.

• Organize Temporal’s physical presence throughout North America via events and strategic partnerships.

• Create and present use-case stories, demonstrations, workshops, and hands-on experiences related to durable execution.

• Establish success metrics, focusing on engagement, knowledge retention, adoption, and usage.

• Recognize pertinent developer tools, frameworks, communities, and partnership prospects.

• Cultivate relationships with partner Developer Relations teams and community influencers.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales teams on messaging, campaigns, and technical narratives.

• Track metrics that link advocacy efforts to product adoption and impact.

• Be prepared for frequent travel to the Bay Area while working remotely.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience as a software engineer responsible for production systems and participating in on-call support.

• Extensive developer advocacy experience at a Principal or Senior Staff level, either as an individual contributor or in a managerial role.

• Experience in people management, or principal-level leadership with mentoring/program oversight, along with a strong desire to move into management.

• Demonstrated ability to produce technical content that engages developers.

• Capability to explain complex distributed systems concepts through presentations, workshops, or individual interactions.

• Background in initiating programs that require collaboration and buy-in from teams outside of direct management.

• Willingness to travel around 30–40% of the time.

• Preferred active involvement in open-source projects, such as being a maintainer, regular contributor, or community organizer.

• Experience with distributed systems or workflow orchestration is preferred.

• Familiarity with Temporal is a plus.

• Background in creating developer workshops, training programs, or managing extensive event calendars is preferred.

• Experience collaborating with Product Marketing on technical product positioning is preferred.

• Strong, active connections within the Bay Area developer community are preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity opportunities.

• Options for remote work.

• Chance to collaborate with a global developer-relations organization.

• Ability to opt-out of interview recording without affecting candidacy.