Developer Advocate
Full time
at GitLab
in
Online
Posted on May 8, 2024
Job details
An overview of this role
The Developer Advocacy team supports and grows GitLab’s user community by enabling and engaging with GitLab community members through deep technical content, targeted programs, and events. As a Developer Advocate, you will help us fulfill our mission by connecting with other developers and GitLab users and sharing your knowledge and experience about GitLab and other leading technologies through blog posts, demos, videos, contributed articles, podcasts, social media, and events. Your content and engagement efforts will foster a community inspired by GitLab and will drive our strategy around increasing awareness, adoption, and contribution to GitLab. Developer Advocates understand our customers, our community, their problems, and how GitLab can solve them. You will work closely with our marketing, engineering, product, business development, sales team, and partners. You will be responsible for technical enablement and representing GitLab at key events. In addition, you might write sample code, author client libraries, provide insights to journalists, and work with strategic GitLab partners such as GitLab Heroes, users, and customers to excite and engage our developer communities. What You’ll Do- Lead the conversation around technology trends and best practices in the developer community
- Create engaging content, including blog posts, demos, videos, and technical presentations that educate the GitLab and developer communities
- Support GitLab’s product and engineering efforts by sharing what you learn while engaging with the wider GitLab community and the tech community, at large
- Conduct interviews with media via phone, podcasts, video, and in-person
- Engage and collaborate within GitLab and in the wider community
- Contribute to the goals of GitLab’s Developer Relations team
- Experience creating software or contributing to open source software
- At least 1 year of experience giving talks and developing demos, workshops, webinars, videos, and other technical content
- Meaningful social presence with engaged followers
- Ability to consistently generate engaging content and manage the fast-moving conference schedule with its CFP deadlines and show dates
- Self-directed and works with minimal supervision
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technology concepts into simple and intuitive communications
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
- You share our values and work in accordance with those values
- Ability to use GitLab
How GitLab will support you
- All remote asynchronous work environment
- Home office support
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