Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company with direct management of 4 or more people.
Deep technical skills, capable of writing demos and tutorials, and engaging with engineers on database functionality.
Proven track record in running developer events and speaking programs with intentional audience selection.
Experience in building scalable developer education or content programs, including tutorials and courses.
Demonstrated success in growing owned developer channels like YouTube, newsletters, or podcasts.
Experience in developing or scaling developer programs, such as champions or ambassador initiatives.
Ability to quantify community engagement and its impact on business metrics without compromising advocate integrity.
Comfortable working globally and cross-functionally with various teams.
Responsibilities
Lead and develop a globally distributed team of developer advocates, creating a long-term strategy with marketing and engineering leadership.
Manage the developer experience, tracking onboarding metrics and facilitating feedback loops with product and engineering teams.
Oversee the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to external stakeholders, including customers and the open-source community.
Set and report on targets for community engagement across various platforms, treating developer relations as a growth channel.
Establish a champions program to empower community members and foster organic growth.
Develop owned channels like YouTube and newsletters into substantial audiences, creating a content system for diverse formats.
Manage the developer-event portfolio, ensuring each event generates valuable content and insights for the business.
Benefits
Flexible work environment with remote-friendly policies across over 25 countries.
Employer contributions towards healthcare.
Equity options for all new team members.
Flexible time off in the US and generous leave in other countries.
USD$500 allowance for home office setup for remote employees.
Opportunities for in-person connection through global company gatherings.
Full Job Description
As Head of Developer Relations, you'll own how developers discover ClickHouse, get productive on it, and bring others along: the developer experience, the technical content that teaches it, the channels where developers find it, and the community that carries it. You'll lead our global team of developer advocates and give the function the goals, systems, and investment of a core growth channel. You'll partner closely with product marketing engineers, field marketing in every region, and product and engineering, and you'll inherit a strong, globally distributed team and a community that has been generous with us for years. If you believe developer relations starts with helping people, that trust is the only thing that compounds, and that the work should be measured like any other growth investment, this is a rare seat.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates, and set ClickHouse's long-term developer and community strategy with marketing, product, and engineering leadership, turned into a multi-year plan with headcount, budget, and investment priorities
Own the developer experience from the outside in: track time to first query and getting-started completion, run friction logs on the onboarding path and docs, and own the feedback loop into product and engineering on what developers are building, where they get stuck, and what they want next
Own the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community, on stage and on a podcast
Set targets across the whole function: community growth and engagement on Slack, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, and your advocates' own platforms, developer-experience measures, and content and channel reach, and report on them like any growth channel
Build the champions program into a real force, with clear tracks for customers, open-source users, and independent voices, so the community grows the community
Build DevRel's owned channels into audiences: YouTube, newsletter, podcast, and advocates' own platforms, with a content system that turns one talk or demo into a tutorial, a video, and posts, and creator partnerships that extend reach beyond our own
Run the developer-event portfolio as one input to that engine: meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions chosen with intent, each producing recorded and written material, with attendance that becomes a signal the business can use
Shape developer education and technical content, from tutorials and workshops to courses and certification, in tandem with the training team, product marketing engineers, and the organic and AEO team on a shared publishing map (which channels matter most, what belongs on each, and who owns it), so each piece goes where developers learn now: docs, video, and AI assistants
Work with regional field marketing to support in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem
What You Bring
Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company, with direct management of 4 or more people and strong leadership of a distributed team
Deep technical skill: you can write the demo, ship the tutorial, and go deep with engineers on how a database works
Experience running developer events and speaking programs where the room was chosen with intent
Experience building developer education or content programs that scaled beyond the people who made them: tutorials, courses, video, or docs that developers still find and use
Experience growing owned developer channels (YouTube, newsletter, podcast, or similar) to a real audience, and a point of view on how developers find technical content now, including through AI assistants
Experience building or scaling developer programs, including a champions, ambassador, or MVP program, with a track record of innovation
Experience putting numbers on community work and defending them, from growth and engagement to the connection with signups and pipeline, without turning advocates into salespeople
Comfort operating globally and cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams
Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time
DevRel or community leadership around an open-source project with a real community, and experience growing that community without losing its trust
Perks
Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
Global Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
