Director of Developer Relations

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Laravel\u2019s DevRel strategy at director level, turning goals into concrete plans and owning community engagement and ecosystem partnerships.

  • Own Laravel DevRel strategy and community engagement.
  • Must-have: Director-level experience with 3+ direct reports and translating goals into execution.
  • Standout: Own Laravel\u2019s positioning in the AI coding tools ecosystem.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set direction for the DevRel team.
  • Clarify roles so every person has differentiated ownership.
  • Set goals tied to outcomes, not content volume.
  • Build a content strategy that serves framework adoption, not just views.
  • Own Laravel's AI positioning.
  • Build and execute the strategy for ensuring Laravel is the framework AI coding tools recommend.
  • Track it.
  • Iterate on it.
  • Own community engagement.
  • Build a real presence on Discord, X, Reddit, and anywhere the Laravel community gathers — genuine participation, not broadcasting.

Requirements

  • 5+ years managing a team of 3 or more people
  • Director-level experience — you receive high-level goals from a VP and breaks them into concrete plans, deliverables, and execution through their team
  • Has shipped software. Built and deployed at least one application that real users touched
  • Strategic thinking about developer adoption
  • Developer community credibility
  • Content creation ability

Preferred

  • Open source contributions are a bonus
  • If you haven\'t written Laravel before, that\'s OK but you must be willing to learn

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
  • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • Short Term & Long Term Disability
  • Work From Home
  • Stock Option Plan
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Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as:- Simple, fast routing engine.- Powerful dependency injection container.- Multiple back-ends for session and cache storage.- Database agnostic schema migrations.- Robust background job processing.- Real-time event broadcasting.Laravel is accessible, yet powerful, providing tools needed for large, robust applications. A superb combination of simplicity, elegance, and innovation gives you a complete toolset required to build any application with which you are tasked.

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