# Senior Developer Advocate

**Company:** [Launchdarkly](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/launchdarkly)
**Location:** Oakland, CA
**Role:** Developer Relations
**Salary:** $152k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** developer advocacy, technical demonstrations, event organization, Technical Writing, ai development, feature management, Experimentation, Observability, Agent Frameworks
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Senior Developer Advocate responsible for building LaunchDarkly's presence in the Bay Area AI developer community through consistent event attendance, relationship building, technical demos, content creation, and feeding insights back to the product team. Requires technical credibility, experience in developer-facing roles, and genuine interest in the AI scene.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Attend Bay Area developer events several times a week (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months
- Bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building, where they're stuck, and how they talk about agents, releases, and runtime control
- Build and show small, credible demos on AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform, and hold your own when the technical questions get hard
- Write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people in the community actually want to read
- Over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have
- Route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them, with enough context attached to act

## What Success Looks Like
- LaunchDarkly has a consistent, welcome presence in the rooms where the AI developer conversation is happening
- Organizers invite you to speak rather than fielding our pitches, and practitioners seek you out at events
- Your recaps get shared by people who weren't in the room, and your content draws an audience without paid distribution
- What you bring back changes decisions: a play gets adjusted, positioning gets sharpened, a docs gap gets prioritized
- You've killed or redesigned at least one part of your own plan based on the evidence
- Over time, you're convening gatherings developers attend for the problems on the agenda, and increasingly because you're the host

## Qualifications
- Experience in developer advocacy, community, solutions engineering, customer success, or another customer-facing technical role
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to attend events in person several times a week, including evenings
- Technically credible: you can build and demo real things and hold a deep technical conversation without a script
- Already active in, or genuinely drawn to, the AI developer scene
- A strong written voice: your recaps make people who weren't in the room feel like they missed something

## Bonus
- An existing network in the Bay Area developer community
- Experience organizing meetups or developer events
- Familiarity with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent frameworks

## Compensation
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level 4:

- Zone 1 (San Francisco/Bay Area): $152,000 - $210,000
- Plus Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.

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