Developer Advocate

The role

You will build trust in developer communities by showing up, helping people, and sharing practical content. You will create tutorials, videos, and demos, and bring community feedback back to the product teams.

What you will do

• Create tutorials, explanations, opinions and demos grounded in real use cases as blog posts, videos, talks and other formats
• Edit and curate drafts from internal engineers, guest contributors and colleagues, validating technical claims and testing code snippets
• Produce video content such as screencasts, shorts and explainers
• Build and maintain demo projects, sample workflows and integrations that showcase Metabase
• Plan and run community efforts such as events, meetups, livestreams, courses, social media and partnerships
• Be helpful in developer spaces such as Slack, forums, Reddit, Discord, YouTube, Twitch and social platforms
• Build real relationships with developers, community leaders, contributors and power users
• Represent Metabase at events, conferences and meetups as a credible practitioner
• Bring friction points, workarounds, complaints, praise and feature requests from the community to product, engineering and marketing
• Track community health and content performance, and adjust effort based on results

Required qualifications

• Experience working with data, comfortable with SQL, databases, metrics and analytics workflows
• Experience building community across some combination of Twitter/X, YouTube, Twitch, Discord, blogs, meetups, public speaking and live events
• Clear, direct and human communication style
• Able to create content independently without a brief, brand guide or editorial approval
• Empathetic, inclusive and warm, and enjoys helping people at any skill level
• Good judgment about when to speak, when to listen and when to stay out

Nice to have

• Contributed to or built on top of open source projects
• Experience with embedded analytics, BI tooling or the modern data stack

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Fully employer-covered medical, dental and vision insurance
• 75% coverage for dependents on medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer match, available to enroll after the first 30 days
• Flexible and unlimited paid time off, including sick time
• Asynchronous, remote-first environment
• Flexibility to define your own schedule and work from anywhere
• Autonomy and support for growth, learning and development

Before you apply

• U.S. applicants: Metabase participates in E-Verify, which is initiated only upon hire and not used to pre-screen candidates

About the company

Metabase makes data tools that are simple to use, with an open source starting point for measuring, analyzing and sharing data. It is used by tens of thousands of companies and has a global, fully distributed team.