Staff/Principal Developer Advocate
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Description
You will create practical technical content, sample applications, tutorials, videos, and livestreams that help developers use the Synthesia API. You will represent the API at developer events, build community relationships, gather feedback, and work with Product, Engineering, Support, and Documentation to improve the developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Write technical blog posts, tutorials, and integration guides
- Build and maintain sample applications, starter kits, and code snippets
- Produce video walkthroughs and livestreams
- Represent Synthesia at conferences, meetups, hackathons, and webinars
- Run livestreams and community AMAs
- Build relationships with developers, technical bloggers, and community leaders
- Travel to developer communities as needed
- Build with and troubleshoot the Synthesia API
- Channel developer feedback and feature requests to Product and Engineering
- Partner with Developer Support and Documentation to identify developer-experience issues
- Help prioritize the developer-experience roadmap
- Grow developer community, newsletter, and social channels
- Cultivate community advocates and power users
- Measure content engagement, API sign-ups, community growth, and sentiment
Requirements
- Experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, technical evangelism, or a similar technical communication role
- Ability to write code, work with APIs and SDKs, and build demo applications
- Strong written, live, and public-speaking communication skills
- Comfort with regular travel and public speaking
- Track record of sustained blog, video, or community content output
- Ability to turn developer feedback into actionable product signals
- Ability to operate autonomously in a fast-moving function
Benefits
- Stock options
- Hybrid or remote-friendly work environment
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k plan
- Paid parental leave
- 25 days of annual leave
- Public holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Regular social events
- Referral scheme
- Computer and monitor
- Budget and support for conference travel, community events, and content production
