Summary
The Developer Advocate role at a VC-backed cloud-native networking solutions company involves engaging with the user and contributor community to drive its growth. The responsibilities include speaking at conferences, writing technical content, building relationships, and advocating for open source software. The requirements include blogging, hacking, coding, demonstrating, documenting, educating, speaking, advocating, experience with Rancher, Mesos, and other related technologies, and comfortability with Docker and Kubernetes in an enterprise environment.
Requirements
- Blogging, hacking, coding, demonstrating, documenting, educating, speaking, advocating
- Connect with user group members, online and in person, to build personal relationships and understand their needs, usage, journeys, and barriers to adoption
- Produce high quality technical ‘how-to’ content (blogs, webinars, talks) addressing common user needs, latest technology advances, and emerging best practices
- Present at meetups, webinars, conferences, and other ecosystem events
- Provide structured feedback to Product Management to guide product evolution
- Write code where required to support how-to content or presentations
- Build and nurture relationships with influencers and open source leaders
- Support our user group through regular office hours and community channels & forum
- Tweet, create blog posts and other social media to your ideas and grow your ecosystem influence
- Monitor user group growth and health, tracking metrics and running regular user group surveys
- Seek out an understanding of the friction points getting in users’ way and launch & own programs to remove them
- Produce case studies, webinars, and podcasts featuring real users
- Travel regularly (post-pandemic) within the US, and occasionally internationally, to attend or present at conferences, workshops, meetups, and other ecosystem events
Responsibilities
- Engage with our user and contributor community to help drive its growth
- Accomplished public speaker willing to speak at conferences, Meetups, and other relevant engagements
- Technical writer with a track record of editorial and educational content
- Referenceable social media persona
- Autonomous, yet highly collaborative, comfortable in a remote work culture using the tools associated with such a culture
- Open source software advocate with contributions on GitHub
- Comfortable coding and hacking on Docker and Kubernetes in an enterprise environment
