Senior Director, Developer Advocacy

What You'll Be Working On

Be the Public Voice of Crusoe Cloud

• Serve as a credible, recognizable face and voice for Crusoe Cloud across developer audiences, building genuine relationships with practitioners.
• Develop and own a distinctive point of view on AI infrastructure, GPU compute, model training, and inference that earns the respect of technical audiences and differentiates Crusoe.
• Represent the real developer experience back into the company, surfacing what builders love, what frustrates them, and where Crusoe can win.

Content and Short-Form Video

• Conceive, script, and produce short-form video that raises awareness of Crusoe Cloud and sparks authentic interest, optimized for platforms developers watch.
• Build a consistent content engine across formats (quick explainers, reactions, behind-the-scenes builds, hot takes) geared toward awareness and interest.
• Get hands-on with Crusoe Cloud so every piece of content is grounded in first-person technical understanding.

Engagement Strategy, Editorial Calendar, and Narrative

• Define Crusoe Cloud's developer engagement strategy and the point of view that helps stand out in a crowded AI infrastructure market.
• Own a cohesive editorial calendar across social and community channels (X, YouTube, Discord, GitHub, Reddit), with clear goals for reach, engagement, and sign-ups.
• Establish and lead Crusoe's presence in developer communities.
• Build a feedback loop between community conversation and the rest of the company, turning developer signal into action for Product, Engineering, and Marketing.

Reach and Influence Beyond Developers

• Extend Crusoe's voice to architects, economic buyers, and executives who shape AI infrastructure decisions.
• Translate developer-level credibility into broader awareness and reputation.
• Partner with Product Marketing and Communications so the developer narrative ladders up into messages for technical and business decision makers.

Developer Engagement at Events

• Be Crusoe's presence on the show floor at developer conferences and meetups, engaging directly with developers.
• Capture developer views, thoughts, and reactions in the moment, feeding real-world signal back into content, product, and go-to-market.
• Generate genuine excitement through authentic conversations.
• Identify creative ways to reach developers and technical decision makers beyond standard booths.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with Developer Relations to align advocacy, content, and community efforts.
• Work with Product and Engineering to stay ahead of the roadmap.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing and the wider Marketing team.

Measurement and Impact

• Define and track metrics including content performance, audience growth, community health, and influence on platform adoption.
• Use data to learn fast, double down on what resonates, and demonstrate business value.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 10+ years of experience in developer relations, developer marketing, technical content creation, or a closely related field, with a track record of building and engaging technical audiences at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to earn credibility with deeply technical audiences (AI and ML practitioners, cloud infrastructure engineers) and measurable impact on awareness, engagement, or adoption.
• Hands-on, current technical fluency in GPU clusters, model training workflows, inference optimization, and cloud infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of distributed inference and post-training techniques (e.g., fine-tuning, LoRA, quantization, RLHF, model distillation).
• Ability to carry a single, credible narrative across audiences from practitioners to executives.
• Proven experience creating content that performs, with direct hands-on experience producing short-form video for technical audiences.
• A strong personal point of view and the comfort to be a public-facing voice on camera and across social platforms.
• Strategic thinker who executes with urgency.