Developer Relations Lead

A note about our job descriptions. We’ve written tons of JDs in our careers and wanted to try something new. We believe that everyone on the team deserves to have a great relationship with their manager from day 1. Our hiring managers write their job posts, choose their words intentionally, and use this as an opportunity to open up a dialogue.

We love data and analytics. And we love building software. But in our experience, to do anything truly interesting at scale with data/analytics, you have to leave the warm cozy world of software development, and enter the specialized workflows, tools, and technologies of the data engineering ecosystem. No more. We’re on a mission to democratize data and bring incredible software developer experiences to the data & analytics stack. In the future we’re building, ANY software developer (human or agentic) can build world class data-driven experiences – quickly and intuitively, as a native part of their core software development experience.

We’re experienced founders with a track record of success in developer tooling and enterprise software. We have a remote-first team of 15+, backed by incredible investors, and we’re building a high-performance culture that's demanding but flexible. We’re still small, but growing quickly, and joining at this time gives you a tremendous opportunity to help shape the culture and long term future of the company.

You will lead Developer Relations at Fiveonefour, and report to the Co-founder/CPO (that's me 👋). As our first DevRel hire, you’ll shape how developers discover, evaluate, and fall in love with our products - especially our open source framework, Moose, and our AI data engineering agent, Sloan. This is an outcome driven role: your mission is to help us reach 100K open source downloads/month through authentic, high-impact, scalable interactions with the developer community. This is an ambitious goal, and while Moose & Sloan have shown strong early signs of excitement and traction with developers, achieving this kind of sustained breakout success will take persistence, creativity, and ingenuity over a years-long time horizon. 

You'll work directly with the founding team to define and execute our DevRel playbook from first principles.  No cookie-cutter strategies. We're in a brave new AI world now, and you'll need to innovate on what DevRel looks like when all your potential users are deeply embedded with LLMs, and many of them are LLMs ;) We’re looking for someone who has proven experience, knows what great DevRel can look like, and wants to do it again, bigger and better. 

You’ll of course engage directly with our growing community of developers, users, and early champions. You’ll also have an important seat at the table with our go-to-market and product teams, bringing the dev user’s perspective into every conversation that shapes how our products are built and delivered. 

This is a hands on, high hustle role. Like all of our functional leaders, you’ll start as an individual contributor, with the potential to hire and lead a DevRel team as we grow.

This role is fully remote, but the team is based entirely in the Americas, and you should be in a similar timezone to ensure you can collaborate with the team effectively. We do get the whole team together in-person every other month or so, and you should be prepared that frequent travel for in-person events may turn out to be an important part of the job.

I am here for your long term professional success. This is the cornerstone of my approach to people management. I’m committed to helping you achieve your career goals – ideally within FiveOneFour – but even beyond, if that’s where your best path leads. This means I will invest in you, understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and coaching you through new skills and development. I will lead by example, as well as by sharing my experiences and lessons learned the hard way. I will be clear and direct when you are falling short. I will challenge you and give you opportunities to stretch your skills, but I will be there for you to support you when you need it - as long as you ask. And I’d love to have fun with you along the way ;)

Our team is composed of ambitious and pragmatic individuals who value each other's wellbeing. We embrace the energy of a startup environment, and our diverse backgrounds and experiences make every day’s interactions interesting. We’re all passionate about our work, and while we put in the long hours needed to be competitive as a high growth startup, we also emphasize flexibility - for example, many of us are parents and get creative to make startup-life work with parent-life.

• Drive bottoms up developer adoption at massive scale
• Create and execute developer relations strategy and playbook, innovating on LLM/agent-native DevRel
• Find our developer personas where they are, get their attention, speak their language and convince them to engage - likely through some combination of:
• • Develop dev-ready content that speaks directly to developers: tutorials, quickstarts, example repos, demo apps, and thought leadership
  • Launch developer-facing campaigns that meet devs where they are (Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, X, Discord) and compel them to engage
  • Advocate with developers, driving awareness, adoption and success through personalized support and interactions
  • Execute on the conference/meetup/speaker circuit, personally and by leveraging other public-facing personas on the team
• Develop expertise in adjacent technologies and cultivate relationships with technology partners
• Support the product and gtm teams with learnings and insights from the developer community
• Support enterprise sales motion by driving groundswell adoption in the enterprise

• Demonstrated passion for developer tools and open source technology
• A track record of DevRel success at scale, ideally in high growth startups
• Strong storytelling instincts and the ability to write and speak like a developer
• Love of creating and engaging with technical content
• Outgoing and at home in technical social spaces
• Curiosity and technical chops to quickly assess and form technical opinions on new dev tools
• Experience targeting enterprise developers and comfort with their unique persona
• The hustle to experiment, learn, and build momentum without needing permission or polish
• Rigor and discipline to manage multiple projects and competing priorities

If you're looking for a challenging role and are excited to build a company from the ground up, please apply!