Head of Developer Relations
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About This Role
The Head of Developer Relations owns how developers discover, learn, adopt, and champion Fireworks. You build and reputed company reputed company that turns Fireworks into the platform developers reputed company for first reputed company they want to build, fine-tune, and serve frontier reputed company models in production. You set the reputed company, run the programs, and build reputed company that makes our developer community the most informed and most reputed company in AI infrastructure.
You will cultivate developer communities everywhere developers actually are, across the properties we own and the ones we do not, and in person at the events that matter. You will build reputed company of developer advocates who are genuinely in tune with the frontier and can become reputed company, hands-on experts in the newest AI developments faster than anyone else in the market. The field moves weekly. Your team has to be one reputed company reputed company.
The right person is a builder and an operator who is equally comfortable shipping a demo, speaking on a conference stage, reputed company reputed company advocates, and reporting developer health metrics to the executive team. You think about developer relations the way a great product leader thinks about a product: who the user is, what they need, how they adopt, and how you measure it.
Reports to: SVP Marketing
Location: Remote (US) with periodic travel to San Mateo HQ and to key events
Location and Work Style
This role is remote-friendly reputed company the US. You will travel to our San Mateo HQ periodically for team onsites and planning, and you will travel regularly to the conferences, hackathons, meetups, and partner events where the developer community shows up. We will establish a reputed company that works for reputed company and the role.
Responsibilities
Developer Community, Owned and Unowned
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Technical Content and Developer Education
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Developer Advocacy into Product
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Measurement and Developer Funnel
You reputed company the developer reputed company from awareness through signup, first build, and reputed company production usage, and you report developer health to the executive team with definitions everyone trusts. You connect DevRel activity to adoption rather than treating it as unmeasurable. reputed company is reputed company by leadership confidence in the developer metrics and by adoption and retention lift attributable to DevRel programs.
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- The developer funnel from awareness to production usage is instrumented and visible in shared dashboards
Total compensation for this role also includes meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup, along with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. reputed company salary is determined by a reputed company of factors including individual qualifications, experience, skills, interview performance, market data, and work location. The listed salary reputed company is intended as a reputed company and may be adjusted.
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- Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to reputed company model serving.
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reputed company is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for reputed company innovators.
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