Senior AI Developer Advocate & Bay Area Community Builder

LaunchDarkly; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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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. You’ll attend and shape meetups, hackathons, and hallway conversations with AI and platform engineers, building lasting relationships and translating learnings into product signals.

You are technically credible, with a passion for the AI developer community, able to build and demo real things without a script, and keen to write insightful event recaps that help others stay

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, building real relationships with AI and platform engineers.
• Listen more than you talk: bring back structured signal on practitioner needs and how they talk about agents and runtime control.
• Demonstrate, don\'t pitch: build small, credible demos on AgentControl and LaunchDarkly platform and handle tough questions.
• Add to the conversation: write event recaps and practitioner-grade content.
• Earn the right to convene: organize gatherings around developers\' problems over time.
• Feed the team: route relationships and signals to owners with context to act.

Skills

Developer advocacy

Community engagement

Public speaking

Technical credibility

AI developer scene involvement

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area to own our Bay Area presence. You’ll attend and shape meetups, hackathons, and hallway conversations with AI and platform engineers, building lasting relationships and translating learnings into product signals.

You are technically credible, with a passion for the AI developer community, able to build and demo real things without a script, and keen to write insightful event recaps that help others stay