Developer Advocate - Open
Apply NowCompany: SurrealDB
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Developer Advocate - Open
Department: Marketing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote, USA
Reporting To: Paz Macdonald
Description
This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about building and nurturing a vibrant developer community for SurrealDB, while helping developers succeed with our products and tools. As a Developer Advocate, you will bridge the gap between the development community and our internal teams, driving product adoption, providing feedback, and creating valuable content such as tutorials, demos, and speaking at conferences.
What you will do
You will be the voice of the community, to champion their needs so we can continue to build amazing products to meet their needs
Key Deliverables
About you
Highly collaborative individual, with a positive can do attitude:
We understand that each candidate brings a unique set of skills and experiences, and we encourage applicants to apply even if you do not meet every qualification listed in the job description.
Our Hiring Process
People Meeting
Your first meeting will be with a member of our People Team. This will be a 15 minute call to run through some basic checks and give you an overview of the hiring process.
Technical Interview
For this interview you'll meet with two members of our Marketing team, who'll discuss your experience and technical expertise and answer any questions you may have.
Meet the Hiring Manager
At this stage you'll meet the Hiring Manager for this role, Paz Macdonald (VP of Marketing) and/or our cofounder and COO Jaime Morgan Hitchcock. They'll dive into our expectations for the position and tell you about what it's like to work at SurrealDB.
Values Interview
In this final interview we'll discuss your career and life experiences in relation to our company values, which can be found via the careers page on our website.
Department: Marketing
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote, USA
Reporting To: Paz Macdonald
Description
This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about building and nurturing a vibrant developer community for SurrealDB, while helping developers succeed with our products and tools. As a Developer Advocate, you will bridge the gap between the development community and our internal teams, driving product adoption, providing feedback, and creating valuable content such as tutorials, demos, and speaking at conferences.
What you will do
You will be the voice of the community, to champion their needs so we can continue to build amazing products to meet their needs
- Promote the company externally and support the company community internally.
- Actively engage with developers on GitHub and on GitHub Discussions.
- Actively engage with developers externally, and on social media platforms
- Create and deliver fun and engaging content covering technical or soft skills for developers, in areas such as, but not limited to, blog posts, technical journals, social media platforms, and for virtual and in-person live streams, presentations, workshops
- Contribute to the SurrealDB blog and other SurrealDB documentation
- Support Developer Office Hours - a dedicated time for developers to ask questions they need answered or share challenges they need help navigating
- Helping to find community champions to showcase their projects built on SurrealDB
Key Deliverables
- Engaged and Active Developer Community: Measurable growth in community engagement metrics (e.g., forum participation, event attendance, social media presence).
- Increased Product Adoption: The number of developers adopting and using the SurrealDB solutions
- Valuable Content: A consistent stream of high-quality technical resources that support developers in overcoming challenges and maximising the potential of SurrealDB
- Product Feedback: Actionable feedback from developers that influences the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with market needs.
About you
Highly collaborative individual, with a positive can do attitude:
- Passionate and curiosity about how to make developers successful
- In-depth knowledge of SurrealDB
- Proven experience of supporting our community
- Ability to create engaging content and documentation
- Multi-tasker able to respond to our developer community on all our platforms
We understand that each candidate brings a unique set of skills and experiences, and we encourage applicants to apply even if you do not meet every qualification listed in the job description.
Our Hiring Process
People Meeting
Your first meeting will be with a member of our People Team. This will be a 15 minute call to run through some basic checks and give you an overview of the hiring process.
Technical Interview
For this interview you'll meet with two members of our Marketing team, who'll discuss your experience and technical expertise and answer any questions you may have.
Meet the Hiring Manager
At this stage you'll meet the Hiring Manager for this role, Paz Macdonald (VP of Marketing) and/or our cofounder and COO Jaime Morgan Hitchcock. They'll dive into our expectations for the position and tell you about what it's like to work at SurrealDB.
Values Interview
In this final interview we'll discuss your career and life experiences in relation to our company values, which can be found via the careers page on our website.