Developer Relations Lead

Geek; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive startup equity

Hands-on role with CEO

Job summary

Geek is seeking a Developer Relations Lead to champion and promote Spice.ai and its data and AI platform. This role includes working alongside the CEO to shape the DevRel and Developer Marketing strategy, creating engaging content, and building an active developer community. Ideal candidates should have 4-6 years of experience in developer relations or product marketing, excellent communication skills, and a strong technical background in data and ML. The compensation ranges from $205,000 to $250,000 annually, plus equity options.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of experience in developer relations, advocacy, or product marketing.
• Excellent communication and writing skills for technical content.
• Experience in managing social media and creating digital content.

Responsibilities

• Lead developer relations and marketing efforts.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and blogs.
• Engage with the developer community through events and forums.

Skills

Technical thought leadership

High-quality written content

Community engagement

Problem-solving

Job description

Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers.

This new generation of applications need fast, secure access to data across disparate systems, the ability to search and reason over that data, and infrastructure that’s reliable enough to run in production. Today, teams often need to piece together query engines, search systems, caches, and AI tooling, adding significant complexity along the way.

At Spice AI, we simplify this by unifying query federation, search, and AI into a single runtime for building intelligent applications. Our mission is to make building AI-powered software as easy as building a modern web application and help developers build the next generation of applications. We offer both open source and fully managed cloud deployments.

At Spice AI we hire for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence.

The Developer Relations Lead at Spice AI will be a key technical advocate for Spice.ai OSS and the Spice.ai data and AI platform. You will enjoy being one of the public technical faces of Spice AI, responsible for leading and executing developer relations and product marketing.

As the first DevRel hire, you will be creating and sharing meaningful content, like for the Spice.ai data and AI compute-engine, including samples and tutorials, documentation, or even core pull-requests when required. You’ll directly engage with developers through social media, blogs, and at events, providing insights and support, and collecting feedback that you’ll use to directly influence what we build. Your work will directly contribute to building a supportive and collaborative developer community around Spice AI and technologies we use like Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Iceberg, and DuckDB.

You’ve done this before. Your participation in relevant projects will have previously earned you the respect of open-source and engineering communities. You have published excellent written content, marketing materials, and documentation.

Along with outstanding communication, marketing, and written skills, this role requires a solid technical background, especially in data and ML, and a genuine passion for helping other developers succeed.

You new opportunity

• Be one of the technical faces of Spice AI.
• Work side-by-side with the CEO to develop, lead, and execute on all areas of Spice AI’s DevRel and Developer Marketing strategy.
• Build and grow an engaged technical community with industry-leading technical content including documentation, blogs, and thought leadership articles.
• Develop and maintain sample applications and demos to showcase Spice AI capabilities.
• Participate actively in developer forums, events, and conferences.
• Own Spice AI’s open-source blog and documentation.

This role may be a great fit if

• You are a proven, hands-on technical thought leader.
• You have and enjoy building a developer audience in open-source and social communities.
• You enjoy the process of writing and crafting high-quality written content.
• You are a creative problem solver and approach solutions from different angles, focusing on possibility, rather than limitations.
• When faced with ambiguity, you are a guiding north star and provide clarity to the team.
• You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.

This experience is ideal

• 4-6 years of proven experience in developer relations, advocacy, product marketing, or a similar role.
• A track record of excellent marketing and communication decisions.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, comfortable with deep technical writing and conference presentations, with a talent for distilling complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language.
• Experience managing social media platforms and creating engaging digital content.
• Leadership skills with the ability to inspire and grow a technical community.
• Experience in startups, open-source projects, AI/ML, data platforms, and distributed systems.

Your first 90-days

• Days 0-30: Learn and use Spice.ai OSS and the Spice.ai data and AI platform, building at least one end-to-end demo and contributing written pieces to newsletters, blog.spice.ai, blog.spiceai.org, and X/LinkedIn.
• Days 31-60: Work with the CEO to develop Spice AI’s DevRel and Product Marketing strategy for 2025.
• Days 61-90: Take ownership of the execution and success of DevRel, Developer Marketing, and associated assets and channels.

$205,000 - $250,000 a year

Spice AI offers competitive startup equity in addition to base salary. Equity range for this role 0.1%-0.5%.

This is a hands‑on role. Expect to join the all team, including the CEO, in building, developing, and marketing the platform.