What You'll Own
Developer community and evangelism
- Own how Exa shows up in the developer world: community spaces, hackathons, meetups, conference talks, open source presence, and the day-to-day of being useful to developers in public.
- Success is measured by active community engagement and by developer awareness in our target segments.
Ecosystem and integration partnerships
- Own the technical partnerships that put Exa inside the tools developers already use: agent frameworks, orchestration libraries, IDEs and coding agents, and platform integrations.
- Drive these from first conversation through shipped, documented, maintained integration.
- Success is measured by integrations live and by developer adoption flowing through them.
Developer awareness and advocacy
- Own the programs that turn users into advocates: champions, ambassadors, community contributors, and the developers who build impressive things on Exa and get amplified for it.
- Success is measured by third-party content and advocacy we did not pay for.
Developer education and demos
- Own reference applications, demos, workshops, and technical talks.
- Partner with Technical PMM, who owns the blog and organic content, while you own the material that gets built and shown live.
Team building
- Hire, lead, and set the bar for a growing DevRel team.
- Success is measured by the caliber of the people you attract and by whether they ship without you in the room.
Product feedback loop
- Own the channel that carries developer friction back to Product and Engineering: onboarding drop-off, API ergonomics, documentation gaps, and the things developers try that do not work.
- Success is measured by fixes shipped.
What Success Looks Like
- Developers building agents know Exa, and can name what it does better than the alternatives.
- Exa is a first-class integration in the frameworks that matter, with usage to show for it.
- A real community exists, with contributors and advocates who are not on payroll.
- Demos and talks from this team are the material sales and marketing want to use.
- Developer friction gets fixed faster because someone owns carrying it inward.
- The function scales beyond you with a productive and cohesive team.
Who You Are
- 6+ years across developer relations, developer marketing, or engineering with a substantial public presence, including time at a company selling an API or developer platform.
- Deep craft as a communicator to developers: talks, workshops, streams, or writing you can point to, and a live demo you are proud of.
- Engineering credibility with the AI stack. You build with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and you can hold a technical conversation with engineers.
- A track record building community from an early stage.
- Experience driving ecosystem or integration partnerships to shipped code, working with partner engineering teams and getting your integration maintained rather than merged and abandoned.
- Experience hiring or mentoring DevRel talent, and a point of view on what separates good from great.
- Judgment about measurement: you can defend how DevRel creates value.
Nice to Have
- Open source maintainer experience or meaningful contributions developers would recognize.
- Experience at a company that grew primarily through developer adoption.
- Existing presence in the AI and agent developer community.
- Experience running a hackathon or developer conference program at scale.
- Time as a professional software engineer before moving into DevRel.
Benefits
- Health and wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a monthly wellness benefit and a monthly commuter benefit for our SF team.
- Fertility and family planning: Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum, plus 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, whether through birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement.
- Life at Exa: Lunch and dinner served daily, an office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements, fresh bread from a local bakery every morning, weekly milk tea deliveries, monthly picnics, and parties to celebrate the wins (and each other).
- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and locations.
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