Head of Developer Relations Head ClickHouse · USD 196k-300k/yr San Francisco, CA, US +15 more Workplace 9 hours ago

Content Creators; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment - remote

Healthcare - employer contributions

Equity in the company

Time off - flexible policy

USD$500 Home office setup for remote

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking a Head of Developer Relations to lead a globally distributed team and shape the developer journey—from onboarding to advanced tutorials and community-building initiatives. You will partner with product, marketing, and engineering to align strategy with growth metrics and open-source collaboration.

You will own the developer experience, events, content programs, and owned channels, while maintaining a strong focus on measurable outcomes and international collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company.
• Strong ability to write the demo, ship the tutorial, and work with engineers on how a database works.
• Experience running developer events and speaking programs with intentional audience selection.
• Experience building developer education or content programs that scale beyond the original creators.
• Experience growing owned developer channels (YouTube, newsletter, podcast, or similar) to a real audience.
• Ability to quantify community work and tie it to signups and pipeline.
• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time.
• DevRel or community leadership around an open-source project with a real community and trusted governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates and set long-term strategy with leadership, including headcount and budget planning.
• Own the developer experience from onboarding to feedback loops, documenting friction points and communicating needs to product and engineering.
• Represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community, on stage and in podcasts.
• Set measurable targets across community channels and developer experience, reporting results as a growth channel.
• Build a champions program with tracks for customers and open-source users to grow the community.
• Develop owned channels (YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, creators) and create a publishing system for tutorials, videos, and posts.
• Manage the developer-event portfolio (meetups, talks, practitioner sessions) with outcomes and recordings.
• Shape education content (tutorials, workshops, courses, certs) with teams across product marketing and engineering.
• Collaborate with regional field marketing to support in-region developer programs and partner ecosystems.

Skills

Developer relations leadership

Community growth

Distributed team management

Open-source ecosystem

Developer events

Technical content creation

Content channels strategy

Metrics and reporting

Global travel

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

ClickHouse started as an open-source project that developers picked up on their own, told each other about, and built companies on. That community is still the reason most people first hear of us, and it is why ClickHouse Cloud fills with new users every day. As the database becomes a platform for real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI workloads, the community has more to learn from us and more to teach us than ever. Developer relations is how we hold up our end of that relationship.

As Head of Developer Relations, you’ll own how developers discover ClickHouse, get productive on it, and bring others along: the developer experience, the technical content that teaches it, the channels where developers find it, and the community that carries it. You’ll lead our global team of developer advocates and give the function the goals, systems, and investment of a core growth channel. You’ll partner closely with product marketing engineers, field marketing in every region, and product and engineering, and you’ll inherit a strong, globally distributed team and a community that has been generous with us for years. If you believe developer relations starts with helping people, that trust is the only thing that compounds, and that the work should be measured like any other growth investment, this is a rare seat.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates, and set ClickHouse’s long-term developer and community strategy with marketing, product, and engineering leadership, turned into a multi-year plan with headcount, budget, and investment priorities

• Own the developer experience from the outside in: track time to first query and getting-started completion, run friction logs on the onboarding path and docs, and own the feedback loop into product and engineering on what developers are building, where they get stuck, and what they want next

• Own the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community, on stage and on a podcast

• Set targets across the whole function: community growth and engagement on Slack, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, and your advocates’ own platforms, developer-experience measures, and content and channel reach, and report on them like any growth channel

• Build the champions program into a real force, with clear tracks for customers, open-source users, and independent voices, so the community grows the community

• Build DevRel’s owned channels into audiences: YouTube, newsletter, podcast, and advocates’ own platforms, with a content system that turns one talk or demo into a tutorial, a video, and posts, and creator partnerships that extend reach beyond our own

• Run the developer-event portfolio as one input to that engine: meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions chosen with intent, each producing recorded and written material, with attendance that becomes a signal the business can use

• Shape developer education and technical content, from tutorials and workshops to courses and certification, in tandem with the training team, product marketing engineers, and the organic and AEO team on a shared publishing map (which channels matter most, what belongs on each, and who owns it), so each piece goes where developers learn now: docs, video, and AI assistants

• Work with regional field marketing to support in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem

What You Bring

• Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company, with direct management of 4 or more people and strong leadership of a distributed team

• Deep technical skill: you can write the demo, ship the tutorial, and go deep with engineers on how a database works

• Experience running developer events and speaking programs where the room was chosen with intent

• Experience building developer education or content programs that scaled beyond the people who made them: tutorials, courses, video, or docs that developers still find and use

• Experience growing owned developer channels (YouTube, newsletter, podcast, or similar) to a real audience, and a point of view on how developers find technical content now, including through AI assistants

• Experience building or scaling developer programs, including a champions, ambassador, or MVP program, with a track record of innovation

• Experience putting numbers on community work and defending them, from growth and engagement to the connection with signups and pipeline, without turning advocates into salespeople

• Comfort operating globally and cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams

• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time

• DevRel or community leadership around an open-source project with a real community, and experience growing that community without losing its trust

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.

• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.

• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.

• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.

• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.

• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start-up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

Are you interested in finding out more about our culture? Learn more about our values here. Check out our blog posts or follow us on LinkedIn to find out more about what’s happening at ClickHouse.

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