Staff Developer Advocate | Remote Tech Storyteller

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 255,000 - 310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU equity

ESPP

Professional development

Career pathing

MEDDIC training

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to act as a technical storyteller for executive audiences while shaping advocacy programs and content across events, talks, and open source. You will coach engineering leaders on public communication and contribute to product direction based on field feedback.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders, partner with event organizers, and build influential content across demos, blogs, webinars, and conference talks.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
• Approximately 8+ years of experience in a senior technical leadership capacity (e.g., Principal Engineer, VP/Director+, Staff Developer Advocate) responsible for collaborating with peer leaders to set technical direction and influence product direction to serve user needs.
• Approximately 3+ years of experience in storytelling and creating compelling content e.g. written content, conference talks, leading workshops, live streaming or recording videos, contributing to open source, and participating in community events
• You have publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of presentations on technical topics
• You have coached and enabled others to speak publicly and deliver compelling talks about their areas of subject matter expertise in a way that resonates with audiences, especially technical executives
• Experience either working on technical conferences or events, either as a collaborator with organizers or as an organizer yourself
• You enjoy self driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages

Responsibilities

• Be the key technical storyteller for our most senior technical executive audiences
• Drive approach and execution of our overall first party technical event content programs, such as DASH and the company Summits, to tell authentic, compelling educational and inspirational stories for executive technical audiences
• Define and drive executive-level advocacy programs for technical audiences, ensuring the company remains relevant to senior technical audiences (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, technical architects)
• Represent the company’s point-of-view in the field to technical leaders at events and conferences.
• Partner with and coach internal product and engineering leaders on effective public communication and presentations for the work they do
• Represent the company leadership’s point-of-view for our solutions, engineering culture and industry trends that our technical users should be thinking about
• Partner with event organizers to ensure success when involving the company and our customers, and the curation of the content most compelling its to attendees
• Create content in one or more mediums to build the company's reputation as a leader in DevOps, Observability and Security e.g. building demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports and more
• Contribute to the product through feedback (bugs or product enhancements suggestions)

Skills

Senior leadership

Public speaking

Storytelling

Mentoring

Event coordination

Tools

DASH

Conferences

Open source

Job description

Datadog is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to act as a technical storyteller for executive audiences while shaping advocacy programs and content across events, talks, and open source. You will coach engineering leaders on public communication and contribute to product direction based on field feedback.

You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders, partner with event organizers, and build influential content across demos, blogs, webinars, and conference talks.