Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy (NAMER)

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a leader to build and head the Developer Advocacy team in North America. You will recruit, coach, and empower senior advocates, drive content, talks, and workshops, and partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to shape developer-facing narratives.

Based in the Bay Area or US remote with frequent Bay Area travel, you will influence events, communities, and programs, ensuring developers learn about Temporal and adopt its durable execution capabilities.

Qualifications

• Senior-level developer advocacy experience with credibility in technical communities.
• People management experience or leading programs across a team.
• Ability to create technical content that developers watch or read.
• Gift for teaching complex distributed systems concepts on stage or in workshops.
• Built programs requiring cross-team buy-in and collaboration.
• Willingness to travel ~30–40%; Bay Area presence is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Developer Advocates with clear goals.
• Co-develop talks, review demos, pair on content, and help advocates find their voice.
• Build cadence for planning, events, and content pipelines to stay focused.
• Set strategy to earn awareness among developers in North America via communities and events.
• Grow online developer audience by valuable content and channel decisions.
• Plan in-person North America presence with partnerships for consistent community presence.
• Develop use-case narratives, demos, and experiences with measurable success metrics.
• Identify tools, frameworks, and communities to collaborate with and form partnerships.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align messaging and narratives.
• Define metrics linking advocacy to adoption and product impact.

Skills

Developer advocacy

People management

Public speaking

Content creation

Partnership building

Job description

About the RoleDevelopers have a lot on their plates right now. Most are shipping faster than they were a few years ago and learning AI tools on top of their regular work, while nearly every developer tool company is trying to get a bit of their time. On top of that, many developers have never heard that the problem the company solves can be solved at all.

Your role is to build and lead our Developer Advocacy team in North America, focused on how developers first learn about the company and inspire them to take their first steps. Part of that is figuring out which videos engineers actually finish watching, what gets someone to a meetup after a long day, and which open source communities and partners we should be working with.

You will manage a team of senior advocates and still do plenty of the work yourself, whether that’s giving a talk, writing code, or showing up at a meetup. You will have a real voice in which events, communities, and programs the team focuses on, and a direct line to Product and Engineering when developers tell you something isn’t working. Our preference is for a candidate based in the Bay Area, as it remains the central hub of industry activity, and we want our leader actively immersed in that ecosystem to bring back key insights. If working remotely, frequent travel to the Bay Area will be expected.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or US Remote with willingness to frequently travel to the Bay Area.

What You’ll Do

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) so the work is focused rather than reactive.

• Set the strategy for how the company 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 the company’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 the company’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 the company, 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.

What You Bring

You’ve been a working software engineer and owned production systems, including being on call when they broke.

• Senior-level developer advocacy experience, as a Principal or Senior Staff IC or as a manager, with real credibility in technical communities.

• People management experience, or principal-level leadership (mentoring advocates or engineers, leading programs across a team) and a clear desire to make management your path.

• You’ve made technical content people actually watch or read, whether that’s a YouTube channel, a popular talk, or a blog developers share.

• A gift for teaching: you are able to make complex distributed systems concepts click on stage, in a workshop, or one-on-one.

• You’ve built programs that needed buy-in from teams you didn’t manage, and you know how to get it.

• Willingness to travel ~30–40% to support events, community, and team activities; Bay Area presence is a strong plus.

Nice to Have

You’ve been active in open source, whether as a maintainer, regular contributor, or someone who helped run the community.

• You’ve worked on distributed systems or workflow orchestration. Experience with the company is a big plus.

• You’ve built workshops or training programs for developers, or run a large event calendar.

• You’ve worked with Product Marketing to shape how a technical product is positioned and talked about.

• Deep, active connections in the Bay Area developer community, and an intuitive understanding of the wider developer ecosystem and how its platforms and communities fit together.

the company Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. the company Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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