Bay Area Developer Advocate & AI Community Builder

LaunchDarkly Group; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will own our Bay Area presence, attending events multiple times weekly, building long-term relationships with AI and platform engineers, and delivering credible demos rather than pitches.

You’ll translate practitioner feedback into concrete signals for the team, write practitioner-grade content, and help convene gatherings around developers’ problems over time.

Qualifications

• Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role.
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings.
• Technically credible: you can build and demo real things and hold a deep technical conversation without a script.
• Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene.
• A strong written voice: your recaps make people who weren’t in the room feel like they missed something.

Responsibilities

• Show up consistently: attend Bay Area developer events several times a week, building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months.
• Listen more than you talk: bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building, where they’re stuck, and how they talk about agents, releases, and runtime control.
• Demonstrate, don’t pitch: build and show small, credible demos on AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform, and handle tough questions.
• Add to the conversation: write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people want to read.
• Earn the right to convene: organize gatherings around developers’ problems over time.
• Feed the team: route relationships and opportunities to owners with context.

Skills

Developer advocacy

Community building

Public speaking

Technical demos

Customer facing

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will own our Bay Area presence, attending events multiple times weekly, building long-term relationships with AI and platform engineers, and delivering credible demos rather than pitches.

You’ll translate practitioner feedback into concrete signals for the team, write practitioner-grade content, and help convene gatherings around developers’ problems over time.