Developer Programs Lead

The role

You will own Render's social presence, developer community, developer programs, and developer voice. You will build and lead a team to drive developer-led growth through strategy and execution.

What you will do

• Build and lead the team.
• Set the strategy and goals for social, community, developer programs, and developer brand.
• Decide what to build first, what to hand to agencies or contractors, and when to hire.
• Hire and manage the team.
• Run Render's accounts on X, LinkedIn, and Reddit.
• Set the channel strategy for social media.
• Handle public moments including outages, pricing changes, and criticism.
• Build Render's presence in Discord, Reddit, and other developer places.
• Run AMAs, livestreams, and community events.
• Build programs for developer creators, ambassadors, referrals, speaking, and employee advocacy.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years across social, community, developer marketing, or brand, including time building or leading a function at a growing company.
• Experience hiring and leading a team, or building a function from early stage with a clear plan for who to add and when.
• Recent hands-on ownership of a company's social channels.
• Experience building a developer community or program, with results you can explain.
• Experience shaping a brand voice, and examples of how it changed the way a company sounded.
• Fluency with developer audiences and enough technical comfort to write accurately about infrastructure.
• Ability to work without a playbook and with little direction across Marketing, Product, and Engineering.
• Steady judgment when something goes wrong in public.

Nice to have

• Experience at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
• You've run a creator, influencer, or ambassador program.
• An active personal presence on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, or another platform developers use.
• Comfort on camera or behind a mic.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent.
• FSAs and HSAs are available.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area.
• Home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

Before you apply

• This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship.
• At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers.
• Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

About the company

Render is building a modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Their platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide.