Head of Developer Growth & Community

Naïve; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Naïve is hiring a Head of Developer Relations to own the full developer surface—from first exposure to production adoption and word of mouth. You’ll own growth, community, creators, events, ads, and support into one integrated lifecycle.

You’ll lead hands‑on, then scale a team, shaping the developer experience across tooling, content, and campaigns while championing a data‑driven approach to measure and defend spend. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to drive developer growth metrics (signups, activation, revenue).
• Excellent written communication for posts, docs, threads and ad copy.
• Technical fluency to debug and build with the Naïve API (TypeScript, Python, Next.js).
• Comfort with AI tooling and agent evals, scraping pipelines and content generation.
• Experience owning a P&L line and defending marketing spend.

Responsibilities

• Own growth marketing for developers, including launches, content, SEO/GEO, docs-as-distribution, newsletters and loops.
• Manage UGC/creator programs: recruit, brief, pay and measure across platforms.
• Own hackathons and events calendar, sponsorships, sample apps and partner events; convert projects into production workload.
• Oversee paid acquisition across major channels with measurable CAC and ROI.
• Own developer support experience: Discord, email, in-app, and escalation to engineering.
• Build dashboards, attribution and content automation; ship tools and pipelines for evaluation.

Skills

Growth marketing

Developer growth

Strong writing

API tech

LLMs tooling

Brand awareness

P&L ownership

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Next.js

Job description

Naïve is hiring a Head of Developer Relations to own the full developer surface—from first exposure to production adoption and word of mouth. You’ll own growth, community, creators, events, ads, and support into one integrated lifecycle.

You’ll lead hands‑on, then scale a team, shaping the developer experience across tooling, content, and campaigns while championing a data‑driven approach to measure and defend spend. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role.