Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

Headquartered in New York but based around the world, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by most.

We want people who are passionate about teaching developers about the latest products and technology trends, to help them achieve their goals.

We are looking for a strong leader with a deep technical background to lead Developer Relations at DigitalOcean. Reporting to the VP of Product and Programs Marketing, the Director of Developer Relations will guide a team of talented Developer Advocates to deliver on our goals of evangelizing DigitalOcean products to our target audience of developers, small technology teams, entrepreneurs, and startups.

This is a highly visible role and has the potential to shape the technical storytelling around the DigitalOcean platform. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead a talented group of technical individuals focusing on creating content for developers and engaging with the developer community through first and third party engagement avenues
• Be a public and visible face of the DigitalOcean Developer Advocacy team firmly attached to our product portfolio and our company narrative. 
• Develop a holistic plan to delight and grow the community of developers that are building on our platform
• Partner with the product and engineering teams:
• To understand various product capabilities and target customer scenarios to prioritize areas for content production
• To provide feedback from the community
• To identify gaps in documentation
• Partner with the marketing team:
• To help support go-to-market strategies around products through differentiated content, code samples, and collateral
• To help initiatives around customer growth, expansion, and retention by improving the customer experience at different stages of a customer journey - through content and engagement.
• Ensure the team works on the highest impact activities through deep prioritization based on understanding business needs, customer preferences, and industry trends 
• Partner with the community engagement team to create a roadmap of exciting developer and startup-focused industry events and other engagements for the team to participate in and represent DigitalOcean.
• Ensure senior leadership and key stakeholders are informed and aligned on developer relations strategy and impact in our community through clearly defined metrics

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

We want a technologist with a business hat. Someone who has:

• 10+ years of experience in a technical capacity (developer, DevOps, SRE, developer advocate, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience as a leader of a technical group or DevRel team
• Deep expertise in developer advocacy and community engagement
• A keen understanding of the international developer ecosystem beyond T-shirts, swag, and IDE dark mode
• A willingness and ability to stay connected to the trends and happenings in the cloud platforms space
• Technical depth to explain complex concepts to the following constituents: developers, senior product and engineering leaders, and junior developer advocates
• Ability to connect the dots and think about how we  should align developer advocacy activities with business goals and the unique go-to-market model of DigitalOcean
• Obsessed with creating content that inspires developers to adopt our products and build
• Ability to establish relationships and build rapport to influence decisions at all levels
• Degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience
• Excels in verbal and written communication; good listener with a strong collaborative attitude

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship, LinkedIn Learning tracks, and other internal programs. We also provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your physical, financial and mental well-being. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym stipend to support your physical health, and a commute or internet allowance to make your trips to your office or your desk easier. We offer generous parental leave with transition time built-in upon return to work. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. 
• We support our remote employee experience. While we have great office spaces in NYC and Cambridge, we’re very distributed—we use a number of communication tools to connect across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to visit our offices and meet their teams face-to-face at team offsites. We also have an annual company offsite, Shark Week, to get quality in-person time with the entire company at least once a year. We also allow employees to outfit their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in office.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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