About the Team and Role:We're hiring a Developer Advocate to
own the Pinecone community-online and in-person-with a particular focus on building a strong SF/Bay Area presence. This role is for a senior, hands-on technical communicator who can build developer relationships at scale, run high-signal programs, and translate community needs into product feedback and compelling learning experiences.
To succeed in this role, you must be able to build and teach with Pinecone's AI products-showing developers how to create reliable, scalable AI applications where knowledge and retrieval are central. You'll translate best practices into practical learning experiences through tutorials, short-form videos, docs contributions, hackathon mentorship, and social posts. Because the team and customer base are scaling quickly, you should be comfortable operating with high autonomy and strong judgment in a fast-paced environment.
If you're excited about:
- Learning new technologies and helping others succeed with that technology.
- Playing a central role in an exciting and rapidly expanding community.
- Shaping the course of a fast-growing company and product category.
- Working with colleagues who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness.
Then we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities:Community Programs (Global)- Lead and grow Pinecone's Discord: drive engagement, improve onboarding, set norms, and keep the space high-signal.
- Run recurring office hours that consistently help developers unblock, learn best practices, and ship.
- Support and scale community programs that create real builder outcomes (templates, challenge weeks, help channels, expert AMAs).
Events (SF/Bay Area)- Own Pinecone's SF-area community presence: local meetups, hackathons, and larger Bay Area events.
- Develop event programming (themes, speaker selection, talks/workshops), run promotion and attendance growth, and ensure each event produces reusable assets and follow-on engagement.
Technical content + assets- Create and maintain hands-on technical assets (sample apps, demos, code walkthroughs) aligned to Pinecone's core developer use cases:
- RAG systems and retrieval quality
- Knowledge management patterns using Assistant and other incubating products
- Platform/infra patterns for scale and reliability
- Publish content across Pinecone channels and external platforms, grounded in what the community is actually trying to build.
Requirements:- 2+ years of experience in a technical role such as software engineering, solution engineering, or machine learning.
- Proficient in 2+ programming languages.
- Owned and grown a technical developer community.
- Ran in person developer events end to end.
- Shipped demos and sample code and taught them clearly.
- Strong writing and live speaking and Q&A.
- Fluent in LLM apps and RAG and strong API instincts.
Perks & Benefits:- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity award
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Annual Company Retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
