Senior Developer Relations Manager
Apply NowCompany: PSPDFKit
Location: Raleigh, NC 27610
Description:
What You Will Do...
PSPDFKit is seeking a Senior Developer Evangelist to cultivate and expand our developer community while advocating for our document processing and collaboration tools. This role requires a creative, experienced evangelist who excels at building relationships and creating engaging content. You will communicate with energy and passion, be driven by data and customer insights, and maintain a focus on operational excellence and measurable outcomes.
Who You Are...
What We Do...
PSPDFKit is the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses. Our customers use our offering to create, edit, sign, and collaborate on documents in their applications across mobile, web, and all other major platforms. We're on a mission to empower developers with the tools needed to innovate beyond paper.
Nearly a billion end users in more than 150 countries rely on PSPDFKit every day including industry leaders like Dropbox, DocuSign, SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, Fabasoft, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, and the European Patent Office. Our software development kits enable companies to work smarter and faster, saving time and expenses along the way, while effectively replacing the need for paper processes.
Who We Are...
PSPDFKit hires people who are curious, creative, communicative, and collaborative. We promote people who make an impact, who demonstrate accountability and ownership, and who pursue progress over perfection. We pride ourselves on being a high performance, highly empowered individual contributor workplace that is optimized for impact over activity. We believe in radical transparency and candor, where feedback is given with empathy and heard with trust. We believe problems are solved and progress is made by individuals taking self-initiative.
We are a globally distributed company with a mostly remote team. Some roles work a hybrid schedule in one of our offices in US, UK, France, and Austria. We are a low meeting culture company and believe in the effectiveness of asynchronous communication. Working time should overlap with most of the team across the US, Europe and Asia. If working from the US, you must be located in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, or Virginia for payroll processing.
Every year, we host a company gathering at an offsite location; past locations have been in Croatia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Portugal, and Hungary. Team members have access to competitive market salaries along with benefits. Above all, we emphasize continuous growth, urging our teams and individuals to seek out feedback, be open to changing their minds, and to constantly be pursuing avenues of learning and innovation.
PSPDFKit believes in equal opportunity, we employ people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, perspectives, as well as providing our employees with a work environment free of harassment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other non-merit factor. We are especially interested in receiving applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry.
PSPDFKit is seeking a Senior Developer Evangelist to cultivate and expand our developer community while advocating for our document processing and collaboration tools. This role requires a creative, experienced evangelist who excels at building relationships and creating engaging content. You will communicate with energy and passion, be driven by data and customer insights, and maintain a focus on operational excellence and measurable outcomes.
- You'll be the first Developer Relations hire and you will build out the DevRel programs, initiatives and KPIs to get a program started.
- Set strategic goals for developer evangelism efforts, tracking key metrics and continuously refining activities based on performance data.
- Build and nurture a thriving developer community that supports each other in learning and leveraging the PSPDFKit platform to build document solutions for mobile, web, and server environments.
- Monitor external developer forums and help cultivate conversations around PSPDFKit to ensure that developers receive the support they need.
- Identify and collaborate with developers to create impactful content that educates and empowers their peers (e.g., guest blogs, how-to videos, workshops, contributed articles, and social media).
- Represent the company and deliver presentations at developer-centric and industry-relevant events such as conferences or meetups.
- Collaborate with PSPDFKit product management, product marketing and engineering teams, sharing insights and feedback from your engagement with developers to help shape future product enhancements and create and contribute in tech talks, blog posts, and other relevant channels.
- Design and implement internal programs to encourage PSPDFKit team members to share their innovations and success stories with the wider community.
Who You Are...
- 5+ years with a proven track record in developer evangelism or developer advocacy, with a proven track record of building engaged developer communities.
- Hands-on experience in software development, with a deep understanding of developer needs when working with developer tools like SDKs and APIs.
- Experience using AI as a co-pilot to perform work (e.g., write code, develop DevRel plans).
- Close collaborator with customer-facing teams such as Technical Support, Customer Success, Sales, Solution Architects, Product Management, and Marketing.
- A skilled communicator who can translate complex technical concepts into simple, intuitive language-both in writing and in verbal presentations.
- Excited about being face and voice of the DevRel function and leading talks, meetups or other developer networking engagements
- Experience delivering compelling technical talks and demos, as well as creating webinars, videos, and other educational content.
- Strong social presence with an engaged following, and a passion for building online communities.
- Understanding of the typical developer journey as they research and adopt new technologies.
- Proven ability to help grow developer relations teams and create cross-functional collaborations with marketing, product, and engineering.
- Excellent organizational skills with an eye for detail and the ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
- Strong analytical mindset, using data to drive decisions and optimize evangelism strategies.
- Enthusiasm for the power of PSPDFKit to revolutionize document handling and collaboration across industries.
What We Do...
PSPDFKit is the leading document processing and manipulation platform for developers and enterprise businesses. Our customers use our offering to create, edit, sign, and collaborate on documents in their applications across mobile, web, and all other major platforms. We're on a mission to empower developers with the tools needed to innovate beyond paper.
Nearly a billion end users in more than 150 countries rely on PSPDFKit every day including industry leaders like Dropbox, DocuSign, SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, Fabasoft, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland, and the European Patent Office. Our software development kits enable companies to work smarter and faster, saving time and expenses along the way, while effectively replacing the need for paper processes.
Who We Are...
PSPDFKit hires people who are curious, creative, communicative, and collaborative. We promote people who make an impact, who demonstrate accountability and ownership, and who pursue progress over perfection. We pride ourselves on being a high performance, highly empowered individual contributor workplace that is optimized for impact over activity. We believe in radical transparency and candor, where feedback is given with empathy and heard with trust. We believe problems are solved and progress is made by individuals taking self-initiative.
We are a globally distributed company with a mostly remote team. Some roles work a hybrid schedule in one of our offices in US, UK, France, and Austria. We are a low meeting culture company and believe in the effectiveness of asynchronous communication. Working time should overlap with most of the team across the US, Europe and Asia. If working from the US, you must be located in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, or Virginia for payroll processing.
Every year, we host a company gathering at an offsite location; past locations have been in Croatia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Austria, Portugal, and Hungary. Team members have access to competitive market salaries along with benefits. Above all, we emphasize continuous growth, urging our teams and individuals to seek out feedback, be open to changing their minds, and to constantly be pursuing avenues of learning and innovation.
PSPDFKit believes in equal opportunity, we employ people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, perspectives, as well as providing our employees with a work environment free of harassment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other non-merit factor. We are especially interested in receiving applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the tech industry.