Director of Evangelism

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At Temporal, we are on a mission to remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud. If you want to solve hard distributed system problems, have a passion for open source software and building a strong developer community, then come join us in our mission. Temporal enables developers to focus on writing important business logic, and not on managing state or worrying about the underlying infrastructure. The Temporal platform is being trusted by top-tier companies as a core technology in their mission critical systems. Our active open source community of developers, who are also our users, provide us with real-time feedback and contributions. We're backed by top VC firms, have closed Series B and have a team of professionals from start-ups and larger companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, Apple, Cisco and more.

The Director of Evangelism will manage a team of engineers, evangelists, and content creators to guide and grow our wonderful community. The primary directive of this role is to: *Strategize and drive Temporal’s transition from niche backend tool to something that will eventually resonate with every developer (there is 20+ million of them). *Drive the transition from a purely US based advocacy to a diverse team of global advocates *Establish an environment that rewards curiosity, creativity and innovation *Encourage experiments and make it clear that taking risks and learning from mistakes is not only expected but required *Work with documentation, education, marketing and product teams to create a holistic evangelism and awareness plan for the business *Identify new market opportunities based on feedback from users and team members *Establish Temporal advocates as experts and trendsetters in the distributed systems & cloud space

This role is part leader, part doer and overall guide-to-all-things for the developer community. You will also be a key enabler for Sales/BD, Engineering, Marketing and Product teams, delivering outstanding content and feedback to drive improvements to developer experience.

What you'll do *Lead a team of senior engineers and advocates who are largely responsible for the continued success and adoption of our technology. *Help define and drive high level strategy for advocacy at Temporal. *Set budgeting and priorities for the advocacy team. *Hire and grow new advocacy team members. *Use information, experiments, and customer feedback to drive growth in our product *Champion Temporal to our target community at conferences, meetups, coding boot camps, online forums, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and more. *Nurture relationships with key influencers, foster a healthy technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with Product and Engineering teams. *Create and deliver helpful content, tutorials, starter kits, best practices, and provide feedback on Temporal developer documentation as needed. *Design and create samples and reference applications closely matching our target customer use cases.

What will help you succeed *Previous experience as a Developer Evangelist/Advocate. *Experience leading or managing remote teams. *Strong organizational mindset with ability to decompose and distribute large pieces of work. *Technical acumen, crisp understanding of distributed systems and ability to write samples and reference applications (Java, Python, GO, others). *Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experienced with public speaking, presentations, podcasts, webinars, training, and blog writing. *Experience growing an open-source community. *Experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging. *Travel may be needed depending on where developer events are held.

Bonus *Expertise in one or more adjacent technical domains *Languages: Python, Java, Golang, TypeScript, .Net *Ecosystems: CI/CD, AI/ML, ETL, Finance, etc *Technologies: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform/Ansible/CDK

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Additional perks *A new category of software *Collaborative, productive, and fun team *Competitive salary *Equity *Unlimited time-off *Medical, dental (including ortho), & vision benefits (premiums paid by company) *AD&D, long and short - term disability, life insurance (standard and supplemental) *HSA + employer contribution *Employee Assistance Program *Wellness allowance ($) per month *401K plan *$1000 annually for home office setup in addition to company issued hardware

What team members bring to the table First principles and critical thinking skills, good design sensibilities, experience working in or with distributed systems and the challenges they bring, and a passion for advancing the state of the art along with the potential to change the way developers everywhere write distributed applications.

What team members are doing at Temporal Collaborating daily with highly technical and truly brilliant leaders in the field, drawing pictures and writing words around architecture, design and implementation of innovative systems and software. Writing clean code either building on or utilizing Temporal to make the world a better place by providing value to developers through world-class open source and hosted software. 

We're currently investing in our *Developer Community *Infra, Open Source Server platform and Open Source Client Runtime/SDK to support many programming languages *SaaS offering *Best in-class Frontend

Technology we enjoy *The right tool for the job *Entirely cloud-based infrastructure *A variety of programming languages *CNCF projects and cloud native tooling *Managed services with clean APIs *Open Source Software *Hashicorp Software

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate difference and diversity.

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Salary and compensation

No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Cloud, Senior, Marketing and Backend jobs that are similar:

$60,000 — $120,000/year

Location

Within the United States