Senior Developer Advocate

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About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, Germany

Overview

GitHub is uniquely positioned to help enterprises and start-ups grow as well as help the world of software development and open source collaboration be better, safer and more welcoming to people of all backgrounds. We are looking for an experienced developer and communicator who is based in mainland Europe to join our well established and growing global Developer Relations team working closely with product, engineering, marketing and sales leaders across the company.

Responsibilities

What does Developer Relations at GitHub do?

Whether the person is brand new to coding, a maker, a hobbyist, someone working on a personal project, someone contributing to open source, a team launching their first startup or someone working as part of a group in a large enterprise - they are a developer and we want to be there to support them and help them make awesome things. You can check out some of our recent work on keynotes, with the GitHub Stars, short-form video, live-streams, hackathons, social media, animated-gif goodness and more.

Be on the ground, serving developers in regions around the world from our position in the core of the product team at GitHub

Spark creativity and excitement around GitHub, and are always finding new ways to connect with developers

Help IT people see how new features can make them faster, collaborate better, be more efficient, and more creative

Connect product teams with the people they need to learn from to make GitHub work better for them - and help the engineering org learn from our customers

Keep open source communities up to speed with the latest changes they can take advantage of and help maintainers be even more awesome than they already are.

Success? That's based on the happiness of developers, success of open source, ability to influence product direction, and enabling the creativity of our superfans and the community around GitHub.

What would you do?

Learn …everything about GitHub and what problems Enterprise developers are trying to solve so you know how best to communicate with them and advocate for their needs with-in the wider product team. You are not alone in this, you will be joining an established team who are there to share ideas and work together but we also have access to the amazing engineering, support and professional services teams at GitHub along with our wonderful community.

Share …your industry knowledge and details about how GitHub builds products and organizes teams with peers and C-Levels at our customer and partner companies in Europe and beyond. You will drive briefings with customer executives, run workshops with our customers and partners as well as create public facing content particularly focussed on the needs of startups and enterprise developers.

Nurture …communities of engineers in EMEA and across the world that are using GitHub for their collaboration along with helping to grow the DevRel teams and helping the wider company improve how they communicate with other engineers outside of GitHub

Teach …define, create and execute on technical content creation programs across the company, helping our team in creating content but also helping others in the company ensure that content is appealing to our community.

Communicate …and represent the company by speaking at technical events and in interviews with press and analysts. You are a subject matter expert on all things dev and you help bring nerd cred to other teams in GitHub, such as the PR and social media teams. You help build channels that identify and share community content as well as measure how much that content is resonating

Manage Relationships …by building a wide and diverse network amongst the Enterprise developer community so they know someone they trust inside GitHub to advocate for their needs and ensuring you have a diverse network to seek out advice from and to connect to product teams when they are looking for people to give feedback on ideas and plans.

Create Experiences …including organizing and participating in online or virtual events, hackathons and managing Q&As. You will be a core contributor to the team creating keynote and launch content (both stage delivered and pre-recorded produced video formats)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

Experience in community / audience engagement, information technology (IT), software development, or other related work experiences

OR Bachelor's Degree AND experience in community / audience engagement, information technology (IT), or software development, or other related work experiences

OR equivalent experience.

Experience leading technical conversations with engineers and their leaders around the end to end DevOps workflows including planning, source control, CI / CD and deployment to a variety of cloud providers

Experience communicating with a range of audiences including C-Level Executives about topics related to software development, developer tools, and enterprise platforms.

Significant technical experience with Git and GitHub and an understanding of their position in the marketplace

Preferred Qualifications :

Past experience working with GitHub and an array of our partners in the cloud platforms space.

Significant knowledge and experience of current trends in software development

Experience with applying DevOps principles in engineering teams.

Experience as a technical meet-up leader or community builder.

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

Leadership principles

Who We Are

GitHub is the world's leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We're also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world's software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We're remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are-because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

Join us, and let's change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!