Developer Relations Manager

At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's most challenging problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating medical breakthroughs. We do this by building and running the world's best data and AI platform, enabling our customers to use deep data insights to improve their businesses.

• Own developer relations for the Databricks Platform end-to-end — set the strategy, define what success looks like, and be accountable for the outcomes.
• Hire, level, and grow a team of Developer Advocates, and take real ownership of their careers: clear expectations, honest feedback, and a visible path forward.
• Establish repeatable advocacy approaches — content flywheels, demo standards, event playbooks — that the rest of DevRel can adopt and replicate.
• Build a team of strong storytellers who can make a complex platform feel obvious, and who scale their work through the community rather than through sheer volume.
• Represent the practitioner community inside R&D at the product-area level, turning community friction into a documented, prioritized roadmap change.
• Drive awareness and adoption of Databricks technologies through your own speaking at industry events and conferences, and by getting your team on the right stages.
• Guide the creation of high-quality educational content — videos, sample notebooks, datasets, tutorials, courseware, and blog posts — that meets a high technical bar.
• Expand and nurture the Databricks community by growing meetups and user groups and supporting practitioners in online communities.
• Apply AI-assisted workflows to increase your team's leverage while maintaining technical depth and originality.
• Define and defend meaningful success metrics for a DevRel team, and explain them to executives.

• 8+ years of combined experience in developer relations or developer advocacy and in a hands-on technical role — software engineer, data engineer, solutions architect, or similar.
• 2+ years managing and growing a developer relations team, including hiring, leveling, and promoting advocates.
• You have done the work yourself. You've written the posts, built the demos, given the talks, and sat in the forums — and you can still do all of it.
• Demonstrated ability to set and execute a developer relations strategy.