About the role
Global Developer Community & Ecosystem Lead
Location: Hybrid in Mountain View, CA (2 to 3 days/week in-office required)
Duration: 6-month contract (due to special projects; potential for extension)
Role Overview & Objectives
An innovative robotics and automation technology leader is launching an open-source robotics platform for developers. The primary objective of this role is to drive, nurture, and manage the developer community centered around a new "Developer Hub" housing news, tutorials, webinars, and events.
- Target Audience: Open-source robotics developers (aiming to build an ecosystem scaled on par with tier-one global developer ecosystems).
- Community Scale: Expected to take over a community of ~1,000–2,000 developers upon starting, with a team goal to scale beyond 3,000 sign-ups.
Key Responsibilities
- Execution & Operations (80% Execution / 20% Strategy): Program and project manage community engagements, developer events, webinars, tutorials, and communications including email cadences and forum posts.
- Developer Engagement Strategy: Map out audience insights, engagement frequencies, and communication channels.
- Bug Triaging & Feedback Loop: Serve as the direct liaison between the developer community and internal Product & Engineering teams. Collect feedback, triage product bugs, and communicate releases and bug fixes back to the community.
- External Representation: Act as the visible, public point of contact on developer forums.
- Platform Management: Oversee the current hub launch and lead V2 updates scheduled for November.
Candidate Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience Level: 6+ years of relevant experience minimum (no upper cap; looking for maturity to handle engineering pushback independently).
- Core Competencies: Strong project/program management skills and hands-on experience managing and nurturing developer communities. (Note: Coding and hands-on software development are not required).
- Domain Focus: Strong preference (80% weight) for Open Source Community experience over traditional B2B Enterprise SaaS sales.
- Preferred Backgrounds (Ranked):
- Robotics developer communities (Top Priority)
- B2B Developer Software / SaaS programs
- Major tier-one consumer/developer tech ecosystem programs (building toward "an operating system for robotics")
Technical Knowledge & Tools
- Developer Forums/Channels: Deep familiarity with Discourse and Discord is mandatory. Exposure to GitHub (critical for cloning products), Reddit, and Slack is preferred.
- Domain Tools/Knowledge: ROS / ROS 2, Gazebo, Python, and C++ domain awareness.
- CMS & Internal Tools: Experience with CMS platforms (WordPress, Webflow) is helpful for managing the Developer Hub. Internal triaging uses Taskflow (can be learned on the job)
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