Staff Developer Advocate - Leadership

Overview

Staff Developer Advocate (Leadership) who serves as a technical leader and storyteller for senior technical executive audiences, owning advocacy and content programs end-to-end.

What you'll do

• Serve as the key technical storyteller for senior technical executive audiences.
• Drive and execute first-party technical event content programs such as DASH and Datadog Summits.
• Define and lead executive-level advocacy programs for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical architects.
• Represent Datadog’s point-of-view at events and conferences to technical leaders.
• Partner with and coach internal product and engineering leaders on public communication.
• Create content across one or more mediums (e.g., demos, public speaking, blogging, documentation, webinars, open source, research reports).
• Contribute to product by providing feedback (bug reports or enhancement suggestions).

What you'll need

• Approximately 5+ years of experience as a software developer, SRE, or other practitioner.
• Approximately 8+ years in a senior technical leadership capacity (e.g., Principal Engineer, VP/Director+, Staff Developer Advocate).
• Approximately 3+ years of experience creating compelling storytelling and content (written content, talks, workshops, live streaming or recorded videos, open source, community events).
• Publicly available writing samples, blog posts, demos, or recordings of technical presentations.
• Coaching experience enabling others to speak publicly and deliver talks for technical executive audiences.
• Experience working on technical conferences or events as a collaborator or organizer.

Nice to have

• Experience working with regional teams to localize technical content and stories.

Details

• Remote role with locations listed as California, Colorado, New York, and Texas (USA).