Head of Developer Relations
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Head of Developer Relations leading ClickHouse’s developer advocates and community strategy. Growing technical content, developer channels, education, events, and open-source adoption for its analytics database.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates
- Set ClickHouse’s long-term developer and community strategy with marketing, product, and engineering leadership
- Turn strategy into a multi-year plan with headcount, budget, and investment priorities
- Own the developer experience, including time-to-first-query, onboarding completion, friction logs, documentation, and product feedback loops
- Own the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community
- Set and report targets for community growth, engagement, developer experience, content, and channel reach
- Build and scale the champions program for customers, open-source users, and independent voices
- Build developer-focused owned channels including YouTube, newsletter, podcast, and advocates’ platforms
- Develop a content system converting talks or demos into tutorials, videos, and posts
- Run the developer-event portfolio, including meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions
- Shape developer education and technical content including tutorials, workshops, courses, and certification
- Work with regional field marketing on in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem
Requirements:
- Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company
- Direct management of 4 or more people
- Strong leadership of a distributed team
- Deep technical skill, including writing demos, shipping tutorials, and understanding how a database works
- Experience running developer events and speaking programs
- Experience building developer education or content programs, including tutorials, courses, video, or docs
- Experience growing owned developer channels such as YouTube, newsletters, or podcasts
- Experience building or scaling champions, ambassador, or MVP programs
- Experience measuring community growth, engagement, signups, and pipeline
- Comfort operating globally and cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams
- Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time
- DevRel or community leadership around an open-source project with a real community
- Experience growing an open-source community without losing 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 engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites
- Flexible work environment
- Remote-friendly work arrangement
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