Director of Developer Relations

Director, Developer Relations

As the Director, Developer Relations, you will be responsible for managing and building a team and stellar strategy focused on growing contributions, awareness, and usage of GitLab.

Job Grade

The Director, Developer Relations is a grade 10.

Responsibilities

1. Increase awareness and adoption of GitLab through curated technical content including blog posts, videos, demo, and presentations.
2. Increase the number of code contributors to GitLab and the number of contributions per monthly release.
3. Grow the number of community members that regularly contribute on our forum or Discord server, give talks, write blog posts, organize meetups, or otherwise advocate for GitLab.
4. Grow the number of students, open source projects, and startups using GitLab.
5. Engage directly with customers to help them grow in their use of GitLab. This will engage coaching them on contributions, helping them to adopt new stages of the product, and working alongside them to identify any challenges and bringing that feedback to the GitLab team.
6. Build and develop great team by hiring, training, and continually inspiring an outstanding global team to grow the GitLab community. With your input, expertise and professional network, your team will consist of (some of) these roles:
   • Contributor Success Engineers
   • Developer Advocates
   • Developer Relations Program Managers

Requirements

• You are obsessed with making developers happy. You were a full-time developer in a previous life (or you’ve been through bootcamps and know how to program and code with the best of ’em!), but you prefer to work with the developer community to improve experience and support through education.
• You have directly managed a team before, perhaps as a manager, senior manager or director. You have built a team before and can’t wait to do it again!
• You have 5+ years of experience leading developer relations or community advocacy programs, preferably open source in nature.
• You are analytical and data driven in your approach to building and nurturing communities.
• You know how to run a marketing pipeline and can articulate how to use automation for the evangelist, committer, and student funnel.
• You are creative. You’ve made people happy with your quirky campaigns.
• You work with the team to help our community members deliver a great keynotes and write great blog posts.
• You have experience facilitating sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
• Bonus points for media training and experience in communicating with journalists, bloggers and other media on a range of technical topics.
• Major bonus points for having an existing network from a diverse set of communities and social media platforms.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Last but not least, and actually most importantly - you share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Leadership at GitLab
• Ability to use GitLab

Career Ladder

The next step in the Director of Developer Relations job family is not yet defined at GitLab.

 

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About GitLab

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 2,200 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, self-learning, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, inclusion and belonging, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

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1. Mission: Everyone can contribute
2. Results: Fast growth, ambitious vision
3. Flexible Work Hours: Plan your day so you are there for other people & have time for personal interests
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5. Iteration: Empower people to be effective & have an impact, Merge Request rate, We dogfood our own product, Directly responsible individuals
6. Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: A focus on gender parity, Team Member Resource Groups, other initiatives
7. Collaboration: Kindness, saying thanks, intentionally organize informal communication, no ego
8. Total Rewards: Competitive market rates for compensation, Equity compensation, global benefits (inclusive of office equipment)
9. Work/Life Harmony: Flexible workday, Family and Friends days
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