As a Staff Developer Educator, you’ll lead the end-to-end education strategy for a major surface area of Apollo's product, owning everything from onboarding experience and content creation to experimentation and engagement measurement. You’ll work cross-functionally to help developers build world-class GraphQL-powered applications, especially those exploring API orchestration and AI-first architectures.
You’ll shape the next generation of Apollo education, infusing our content with a strong point of view, grounding it in developer outcomes, and helping us transform how technical education supports acquisition, activation, and growth. This is a high-impact, visible role that blends strategy, writing, technical depth, and customer empathy.
What You’ll Do
Own the developer education strategy for a product area (e.g., MCP Server, GraphOS Cloud, Apollo Router, etc.).
Design and deliver a learning experience that’s clear, scalable, and engaging—from docs to deep dives to live workshops.
Collaborate across Product and Go-to-Market teams to align on narrative, ensure launch readiness, and deliver education that accelerates adoption.
Write, structure, and maintain documentation and tutorials that help developers achieve goals fast—whether they’re GraphQL newcomers or experienced engineers.
Use data and user research to identify educational gaps, reduce onboarding friction, and improve developer outcomes.
Lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives (e.g., certification programs, onboarding redesigns, AI-assisted learning pilots).
Mentor other educators and guide best practices for instructional design, content systems, and measurement.
Who you are
You have 8+ years of experience in technical education, developer relations, or technical writing—ideally within a developer-first or API-centric company.
A strong portfolio of developer education work (docs, courses, videos, workshops, etc.).
Deep understanding of developer audiences and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into engaging learning experiences.
Experience with GraphQL and/or cloud-native tools; bonus if you’ve worked on orchestration, networking, or platform infrastructure.
A product mindset—you see docs and education as part of the end-to-end product experience.
Strategic thinking paired with a hands-on, bias-for-action approach.
Experience guiding editorial calendars, launching major initiatives, and collaborating cross-functionally at a senior level.
Bonus: experience using AI tools for content creation or experimentation.
At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process. In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.
Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anwhere in the US or Canada.
Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.
Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here.
E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information, please visit E-Verify.
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What We Do
Apollo GraphQL is powering the future of modern development, enabling businesses to accelerate product velocity and platform innovation with the power of the supergraph. Apollo is the most widespread implementation of GraphQL. The company is focused on using its market and technical leadership to make application development easier, better, and faster for everyone by combining APIs, databases, and microservices into a supergraph that can effectively be queried by GraphQL.
Why Work With Us
We’re the company responsible for bringing GraphQL to the global community. We are scaling to ensure that we have the wherewithal to keep our promises to our subscribers, community and GraphQL enthusiasts. Our revenue is going to more than 2x in 2022 and we’re planning on adding 100 new Apollonauts by the end of 2022.
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