Head of Developer Relations

Overview

Lead ClickHouse's global developer relations function, owning how developers discover ClickHouse, get productive on it, and bring others along, including the developer experience, technical content, channels, and community.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates, and set ClickHouse's long-term developer and community strategy with marketing, product, and engineering leadership, turned into a multi-year plan with headcount, budget, and investment priorities
• Own the developer experience from the outside in: track time to first query and getting-started completion, run friction logs on the onboarding path and docs, and own the feedback loop into product and engineering on what developers are building, where they get stuck, and what they want next
• Own the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community, on stage and on a podcast
• Set targets across the whole function: community growth and engagement on Slack, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, and your advocates' own platforms, developer-experience measures, and content and channel reach, and report on them like any growth channel
• Build the champions program into a real force, with clear tracks for customers, open-source users, and independent voices, so the community grows the community
• Build DevRel's owned channels into audiences: YouTube, newsletter, podcast, and advocates' own platforms, with a content system that turns one talk or demo into a tutorial, a video, and posts, and creator partnerships that extend reach beyond our own
• Run the developer-event portfolio as one input to that engine: meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions chosen with intent, each producing recorded and written material, with attendance that becomes a signal the business can use
• Shape developer education and technical content, from tutorials and workshops to courses and certification, in tandem with the training team, product marketing engineers, and the organic and AEO team on a shared publishing map (which channels matter most, what belongs on each, and who owns it), so each piece goes where developers learn now: docs, video, and AI assistants
• Work with regional field marketing to support in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem

What you'll need

• Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company, with direct management of 4 or more people and strong leadership of a distributed team
• Deep technical skill: you can write the demo, ship the tutorial, and go deep with engineers on how a database works
• Experience running developer events and speaking programs where the room was chosen with intent
• Experience building developer education or content programs that scaled beyond the people who made them: tutorials, courses, video, or docs that developers still find and use
• Experience growing owned developer channels (YouTube, newsletter, podcast, or similar) to a real audience, and a point of view on how developers find technical content now, including through AI assistants
• Experience building or scaling developer programs, including a champions, ambassador, or MVP program, with a track record of innovation
• Experience putting numbers on community work and defending them, from growth and engagement to the connection with signups and pipeline, without turning advocates into salespeople
• Comfort operating globally and cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams
• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time
• DevRel or community leadership around an open-source project with a real community, and experience growing that community without losing its trust

Details

• Location: United States
• Remote-friendly; ClickHouse operates in over 25 countries
• Travel at least 25% of the time