Community Developer Lead

Orkes•Cupertino, CA

11h•$120,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Orkes is seeking a Developer Community Engagement specialist to lead their open-source community. This role is crucial for driving awareness, engagement, and adoption of Orkes and its open-source platform, Conductor. The position involves a mix of community engagement, developer marketing, and technical content creation. The ideal candidate will help developers discover Orkes, assist them in adopting the platform through educational content and community interaction, and foster relationships to encourage participation and contribution. This role is ideal for someone passionate about technology, experienced in developer communities, and excited about agentic transformation.

Requirements

2+ years of impactful experience in engagement with developers for deeply technical products in a community context
A proactive, self-directed person who thrives in any situation and enjoys working alongside developer communities
A strong technical foundation. You’ve written code and understand how developers think, build, troubleshoot, and evaluate new technologies
You’ve created technical educational content in the past such as presentations, written work, videos, demos, and workshops
You can take something complex and make it click for developers who are seeing it for the first time
You are a highly resilient person that’s also execution-focused.

Nice To Haves

Open source community experience
An existing audience or online presence in the developer space
Conference talks/webinars/event hosting under your belt
Familiarity with agentic workflow orchestration, in particular Conductor/Orkes

Responsibilities

Interacting with developers via various online and in-person communities to drive awareness, engagement and usage of our products
Answer technical questions, unblock users, and foster an inclusive, knowledgeable, and strong community that developers want to be a part of
Educate developers on workflow orchestration, agentic workflows, and distributed systems through your content and community programs
Build real relationships to empower our contributors, advocates, and power users
Create educational content such as blogs, tutorials, videos, walkthroughs, and learning materials
End-to-end ownership of webinars, workshops, AMAs, demos, and community events
Represent Orkes at conferences, meetups, podcasts, and online events
Bring developer feedback back to Product and Engineering to help improve Orkes