Director of Developer Relations at Laravel, Remote in United States

Lead strategic direction for Laravel’s Developer Relations team, focusing on ecosystem growth, AI positioning, and community engagement to boost framework adoption and influence developer choices.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish vision and clarify roles for the DevRel team to ensure focused ownership and outcome-driven goals.
• Develop a content strategy emphasizing framework adoption over mere metrics like views.
• Lead Laravel’s positioning in AI coding tools by creating and implementing strategies to become the recommended backend framework, including monitoring and refinement.
• Manage authentic community interactions on platforms like Discord, X, and Reddit to foster genuine participation.
• Design a systematic process for gathering and delivering community feedback and feature requests to the product team regularly.
• Monitor and analyze community health metrics to assess growth, trends, and influencing factors.
• Identify and strengthen ties with key ecosystem contributors, leaders, and partners through a structured collaboration approach.
• Build personal credibility and recognition within the Laravel developer community.

Qualifications

• Over five years of experience managing teams of at least three members in dynamic settings with limited supervision.
• Proven director-level expertise in translating high-level objectives into actionable plans and team execution.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying user-facing software applications, with open-source contributions preferred; willingness to learn Laravel if not already proficient.
• Deep understanding of developer tool selection processes, AI’s impact on decisions, and strategies to drive adoption.
• Established involvement in developer communities through contributions on forums, social media, conferences, or open-source projects, beyond corporate roles.
• Capability to produce educational technical content, such as blog posts or tutorials.
• Balanced leadership style as a player-coach, engaging directly when necessary.

Benefits And Growth

• Comprehensive health care coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Retirement savings options such as 401k and IRA.
• Life insurance options, including basic, voluntary, and AD&D coverage.
• Generous paid time off for vacation, sick leave, and public holidays.
• Family leave policies covering maternity and paternity.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Remote work flexibility.
• Stock option plan participation.