Head of DevRel
About The Position
Exa is building a search engine for the AI era. Our Search API currently powers Agents, Fortune 500s and AI labs as we transform an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the 90s. We're a largely SF-based team of ~100 from Harvard, MIT, Meta, Google Research, ex-founders & dropouts alike. We are looking for a Head of Developer Relations to make Exa the search layer developers reach for by default. Every agent needs to retrieve information, and the developer building that agent makes the call about how. Our job is to make that decision easy: in the frameworks they're using, in the communities where they're engaging, and in the talks or demos that showed them what perfect search can do. Community and evangelism sit at the center of this role, running memorable events and hackathons, and building a base of people who advocate for Exa because the product earned it. Alongside that, you own the ecosystem, getting Exa integrated into the frameworks, developer tools, and platforms our users already build on. You’ll build the function, hire and coach developer advocates, but you will also stay hands-on. The credibility of this role rests on your ability to build and demo. This role is based in-person at our San Francisco HQ.
Requirements
- 6+ years across developer relations, developer marketing, or engineering with a substantial public presence, including time at a company selling an API or developer platform.
- Deep craft as a communicator to developers: talks, workshops, streams, or writing you can point to, and a live demo you are proud of.
- Engineering credibility with the AI stack. You build with LLMs, agents, and retrieval, and you can hold a technical conversation with engineers.
- A track record building community from an early stage.
- Experience driving ecosystem or integration partnerships to shipped code, working with partner engineering teams and getting your integration maintained rather than merged and abandoned.
- Experience hiring or mentoring DevRel talent, and a point of view on what separates good from great.
- Judgment about measurement: you can defend how DevRel creates value.
Nice To Haves
- Open source maintainer experience or meaningful contributions developers would recognize.
- Experience at a company that grew primarily through developer adoption.
- Existing presence in the AI and agent developer community.
- Experience running a hackathon or developer conference program at scale.
- Time as a professional software engineer before moving into DevRel.
Responsibilities
- Developer community and evangelism: Own how Exa shows up in the developer world: community spaces, hackathons, meetups, conference talks, open source presence, and the day-to-day of being useful to developers in public.
- Ecosystem and integration partnerships: Own the technical partnerships that put Exa inside the tools developers already use: agent frameworks, orchestration libraries, IDEs and coding agents, and platform integrations. Drive these from first conversation through shipped, documented, maintained integration.
- Developer awareness and advocacy: Own the programs that turn users into advocates: champions, ambassadors, community contributors, and the developers who build impressive things on Exa and get amplified for it.
- Developer education and demos: Own reference applications, demos, workshops, and technical talks. You partner with Technical PMM, who owns the blog and organic content, while you own the material that gets built and shown live.
- Team building: Hire, lead, and set the bar for a growing DevRel team.
- Product feedback loop: Own the channel that carries developer friction back to Product and Engineering: onboarding drop-off, API ergonomics, documentation gaps, and the things developers try that do not work.
Benefits
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Monthly commuter benefit for our SF team
- Reimbursement for eligible egg freezing and related medical expenses up to a $15,000 lifetime maximum
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, whether through birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement.
- Lunch and dinner served daily
- Office stocked with snacks, coffee, and health supplements
- Fresh bread from a local bakery every morning
- Weekly milk tea deliveries
- Monthly picnics
- Parties to celebrate the wins (and each other)
- Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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