Head of Developer Relations

The role

The Head of Developer Relations will build the DevRel function and lead a growing team. This person will manage developer community, evangelism, ecosystem integrations, and developer education.

What you will do

• Own developer community and evangelism through events, hackathons, and meetups
• Manage technical partnerships for ecosystem and integration with frameworks and tools
• Drive developer awareness and advocacy programs
• Own developer education including reference applications, demos, workshops, and technical talks
• Hire, lead, and set the bar for a growing DevRel team
• Carry developer friction back to Product and Engineering

Required qualifications

• 6+ years across developer relations, developer marketing, or engineering with a substantial public presence
• Experience at a company selling an API or developer platform
• Deep craft as a communicator to developers including talks, workshops, streams, or writing
• Engineering credibility with the AI stack
• Build with LLMs, agents, and retrieval
• Track record building community from an early stage
• Experience driving ecosystem or integration partnerships to shipped code
• Experience hiring or mentoring DevRel talent

Nice to have

• Open source maintainer experience or meaningful contributions
• Experience at a company that grew primarily through developer adoption
• Existing presence in the AI and agent developer community
• Experience running a hackathon or developer conference program at scale
• Time as a professional software engineer before moving into DevRel

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Monthly wellness benefit
• Monthly commuter benefit for SF team
• Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to $15,000 lifetime maximum
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Lunch and dinner served daily
• Office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements
• Fresh bread from a local bakery every morning
• Weekly milk tea deliveries
• Monthly picnics
• Parties to celebrate wins

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates

About the company

Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. The team is largely SF-based and has raised a $250M Series C.