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Lytics, the CDP and Personalization Engine built for marketers, improves business performance by translating consumer interactions into consumable behavioral insights that can be leveraged to make real-time personalization decisions. Lytics equips marketers with the tools to create unique one-to-one marketing campaigns and engagements based on each user’s interests and journey. Some of the world’s most innovative brands use Lytics’ CDP technology, including P&G, Live Nation, Nestlé Purina, and more! We seek intelligent, passionate, and dedicated individuals to grow with us and deliver significant value to our customers and company.
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Job Summary
As a Developer Evangelist at Lytics, you'll be responsible for inspiring and empowering the developer community, partners, and customers around our platform and tools. This role involves creating technical content, delivering presentations, and engaging with developers to promote the adoption of our platform, with a strong emphasis on web-based personalization, ads, and analytics use cases facilitated by JavaScript and common CMS platforms like Drupal and WordPress. You will act as the face of Lytics to the developer community, ensuring they have the resources, support, and knowledge they need to succeed.
You will collaborate closely with the Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to shape our developer outreach strategy. This role requires you to stay ahead of the latest web development tools and trends and leverage that knowledge to drive excitement and engagement around our products. You’ll be a natural communicator, passionate about technology, and skilled in making complex topics accessible and engaging.
Essential Functions
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Build and maintain relationships with developers, agency partners, and customers through our online community, social, forums, etc.
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Create technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, videos, and webinars, focusing on JavaScript, Drupal, WordPress, and other CMS technologies.
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Advocate for developers' needs internally, collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure that our platform meets their expectations.
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Work directly with the product team to create SDKs, APIs, and developer tools that enhance the developer experience.
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Help build a presence in developer communities.
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Develop and manage a content strategy that educates developers and encourages them to build on our platform.
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Gather feedback from developers and turn insights into actionable recommendations for product improvements.
Qualifications
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The ideal candidate would have the skills and expertise developed as a developer or digital strategist on the agency side.
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Extensive experience as a developer with a strong focus on JavaScript and web technologies such as Drupal, WordPress, Google Analytics, Google Ads, etc.
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Proven experience and passion in developer relations or developer advocacy roles.
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Strong understanding of API design, SDK development, and the overall developer experience.
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Experience presenting to technical and non-technical audiences in a compelling and engaging way.
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Experience creating developer-focused content, such as blogs, videos, tutorials, and technical documentation.
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Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear, accessible language.
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Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and developer communities.
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Experience managing projects using tools like GitHub.
Skills
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Deep expertise in JavaScript, including popular frameworks like React.
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Strong experience with CMS platforms like Drupal and WordPress.
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Excellent presentation skills.
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Proficient in writing and maintaining technical documentation and developer guides.
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Skilled in design tools like Figma. Huge plus for experience with video editing software.
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Strong organizational skills, with experience managing multiple projects and content calendars.
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Ability to interact with APIs via terminal.
Why Work at Lytics?
You will be working in a company with tons of talent, that is in a rapidly growing space with plenty of opportunity. Since we are not a large company, you will be able to learn everyone's name, as knowledge transfers quickly across the entire company. In addition, the Lytics team is professional and open with sharing ideas. Leadership is more than ready to help provide guidance on making you successful at Lytics.
At Lytics, we recruit and reward employees based on performance and capability, regardless of race, sexual orientation,gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, educational background, familial obligations, national origin, religion, or physical ability. Diverse companies are more innovative and better positioned to succeed in emerging technologies.
Perks:
We are committed to taking care of our team, and along with providing a competitive salary and great benefits for employees and their families, we are dedicated to making sure there are a variety of methods for staff to grow their skills and further their careers. Benefits include health insurance, 401K match, flexible PTO, generous company-wide holidays, company and individual wellness days, stock options, paid parental leave, remote work connectivity benefits, education benefit, wellness benefits, life insurance and disability plans.
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What We Do
Lytics is a customer data platform (CDP) built for marketing teams to improve business performance by connecting the right data to Lytics’ powerful AI engine. By combining unique behavioral insights, machine learning, and real-time campaign orchestration, Lytics equips marketers with the tools to create unique one-to-one marketing campaigns and engagements based on each user’s interests and customer journey. Some of the world’s most innovative brands use Lytics’ CDP technology, including Nestlé Purina, AEG, Atlassian, Industry Dive, and Yamaha. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Lytics is led by marketing and technology veterans who have held leadership positions at Webtrends, Airship, Tripwire, and Puppet. Lytics is backed by JMI Equity, Comcast Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Voyager Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and EPIC Ventures.