Manager, Developer Advocacy (APJ)

Temporal Technologies

About The Position

Temporal Technologies is hiring a manager to lead its Developer Advocates across APJ. The team’s work includes helping developers in the region discover and try Temporal, and helping major customers get more value from the product. The manager will lead the team while remaining hands-on through talks, workshops, coding, and direct customer engagement. The role works closely with Marketing on events and community programs, and with Sales, Solutions Architects, and Developer Success on customer accounts. It balances community engagement with customer work, sets team priorities, and ensures requests are managed according to deal size, stage, and strategic value. The manager will lead regional developer outreach and content, build relationships with local developer communities, and measure whether those efforts increase adoption and ongoing use. They will also own APJ DevDays, Temporal’s onsite customer engagement program, tailoring each event to customer use cases and helping identify and follow up with potential customer champions. Feedback from developers and customers will be shared with Docs, Education, and Product, particularly on localization and regional needs.

Requirements

Experience in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or community work, ideally at a developer-focused or enterprise software company.
Experience engaging developers in broader communities and working with engineering teams at large customers.
Experience managing people or readiness to take on a people-management role.
Strong technical depth and ability to build and demonstrate software, give talks, and answer advanced questions from experienced engineers.
Organizational skills and experience running repeatable programs, managing requests and priorities, and following through on commitments.
Ability to collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Solutions Architects, Developer Success, and Product, and to explain how technical work connects to business results.
Experience working across different cultures and markets, with an understanding that APJ audiences have varied needs.
A developer-focused approach that prioritizes building trust over pushing a product.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading a team spread across multiple time zones.
Experience with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems, especially Temporal.

Responsibilities

Hire, coach, and support a team of Developer Advocates across APJ.
Set team priorities while allowing advocates to adapt their work to local markets and audiences.
Decide how the team allocates time between community engagement and customer work.
Prioritize incoming customer requests based on deal size, stage, and strategic value, balancing demand against team capacity without neglecting community work.
Work with Marketing to plan the team’s presence at APJ conferences and to start or support meetups.
Create and translate developer-focused content, including talks, tutorials, blog posts, videos, sample applications, and livestreams.
Identify and support local community members who can lead, contribute to open source, and share awareness of Temporal.
Track the effectiveness of advocacy work, including developer sign-ups, product trials, and continued use.
Own the APJ DevDays onsite customer engagement program from planning through completion.
Work with the Global DevDays lead to tailor events to customer use cases.
Identify potential engineering champions within customer accounts and ensure follow-up.
Share developer and customer feedback with Docs, Education, and Product, especially regarding localization and market-specific needs.
Remain hands-on by giving talks, running workshops, writing code, and engaging with customers.