Bay Area Developer Advocate & AI Community Builder

LaunchDarkly; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area to own our Bay Area presence, attending events and building long-term relationships with AI and platform engineers. You’ll demonstrate runtime control demos, share credible insights, and help shape how practitioners ship AI-powered features.

You’ll write practitioner-friendly recaps, organize gatherings, and feed your insights back to the product and engineering teams, becoming the host of the local AI

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 (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months, not transactions over days
• 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 hold your own when the technical questions get hard
• Add to the conversation: write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people in the community actually want to read, rather than broadcasting at them
• Earn the right to convene: over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have, not around LaunchDarkly as a brand
• Feed the team: route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them, with enough context attached to act

Skills

Developer advocacy

Community building

Solutions engineering

Customer success

Technical writing

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area to own our Bay Area presence, attending events and building long-term relationships with AI and platform engineers. You’ll demonstrate runtime control demos, share credible insights, and help shape how practitioners ship AI-powered features.

You’ll write practitioner-friendly recaps, organize gatherings, and feed your insights back to the product and engineering teams, becoming the host of the local AI