Head of Developer Advocacy & Community Growth

Temporal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a leader to build and run the Developer Advocacy team across North America, based in the Bay Area or US Remote with frequent Bay Area travel. You will guide senior advocates, contribute hands-on, and shape our developer strategy across talks, content, events, and partnerships.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align narratives, measure outcomes, and accelerate developer adoption and engagement at scale.

Qualifications

• You've been a working software engineer and owned production systems, including being on call when they broke.
• Senior-level developer advocacy experience, with credibility in technical communities.
• People management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Developer Advocates, setting explicit goals and expectations and giving honest feedback.
• Co-develop talks, review demos, pair on content, and help each advocate find their stage and voice.
• Build the team's operating cadence (planning, event coverage, content pipelines, quality bar).
• Set the strategy for how Temporal earns awareness and consideration among developers in North America. Favor other people's channels (community meetups, partner events, conferences, OSS projects) over our own.
• Grow Temporal's online developer audience by investing in content people actually watch and share, and by making the call on which formats and channels deserve the team's time.
• Build a plan for Temporal's in-person presence across North America that maintains a balance of our own events with partnerships, so we show up consistently in the communities that matter most to our growth.
• Develop and deliver use-case narratives, demos, and practical experiences that show the practical capabilities of durable execution. Determine clear success metrics for each program, including attendee engagement rates, knowledge retention outcomes, and measurable increases in developers' adoption and usage.
• Know which tools, frameworks, and communities developers are pairing with Temporal, and figure out which partnerships would get us in front of developers we're not reaching yet.
• Build relationships with partner DevRel teams and community leaders, and co-create programs, content, and events that reach developers we couldn't reach alone.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align messaging, campaigns, and technical narratives aligned with company priorities.
• Define and report on metrics that tie advocacy to adoption and product impact, not just activity.

Skills

Software engineer

People management

Developer advocacy

Job description

Temporal is seeking a leader to build and run the Developer Advocacy team across North America, based in the Bay Area or US Remote with frequent Bay Area travel. You will guide senior advocates, contribute hands-on, and shape our developer strategy across talks, content, events, and partnerships.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align narratives, measure outcomes, and accelerate developer adoption and engagement at scale.