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Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate

LaunchDarkly
Location
Remote - US
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Revenue Marketing
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • A background spanning at least two of: developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, technical marketing
  • Comfortable in enterprise rooms: able to teach technical sessions to fifty engineers and handle difficult questions
  • Hands-on technical credibility: capable of building, demoing, and teaching
  • Strong operational instincts: able to run a repeatable program and prioritize incoming demand
  • Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience
  • Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time
Nice to have
  • Experience with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent orchestration tooling
  • Experience building a customer-facing technical program (workshops, DevDays, office hours) from scratch
  • Deep enterprise software background: understanding how large engineering organizations make platform decisions
What the job really is

The Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly will be responsible for creating and implementing an education-focused technical program for enterprise clients. This role involves designing and running technical sessions tailored to the needs of engineers within large accounts, building internal champions, and measuring the success of these initiatives. The advocate will work closely with account teams to ensure the program is credible and non-promotional, while also shaping the future of the advocacy motion based on evidence gathered during the pilot phase.

Benefits
  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Mental health benefits
Things to weigh
  • No specific technologies or tools mentioned in the responsibilities
  • Role involves significant travel (approximately 25%)
  • The position is described as starting as a pilot, which may involve uncertainty in initial phases
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