Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy (NAMER)

Temporal Technologies•San Francisco, CA

23h

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Developer Advocacy will build and lead Temporal’s Developer Advocacy team in North America, shaping how developers first learn about Temporal and encouraging them to take their first steps. The role combines people leadership with hands-on advocacy work, including giving talks, writing code, creating content, and attending meetups. The manager will influence which events, communities, and programs the team prioritizes and bring developer feedback directly to Product and Engineering. The position sets the strategy for earning developer awareness and consideration across North America, with an emphasis on participating in external community meetups, partner events, conferences, and open source projects. It includes growing Temporal’s online developer audience through effective content, building a consistent in-person presence, developing practical use-case narratives and experiences, and measuring programs by engagement, knowledge retention, adoption, and product impact. The manager will also develop partner relationships and coordinate with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales. The preferred location is the San Francisco Bay Area. US-based remote candidates may be considered, with frequent travel to the Bay Area expected. The role involves approximately 30–40% travel to support events, community, and team activities.

Requirements

Experience as a working software engineer who owned production systems, including participating in on-call response.
Senior-level developer advocacy experience as a Principal or Senior Staff individual contributor or as a manager, with credibility in technical communities.
People management experience, or principal-level leadership such as mentoring advocates or engineers and leading cross-team programs, with a clear desire to pursue management.
Experience creating technical content that people watch or read, such as a YouTube channel, popular talk, or widely shared developer blog.
Ability to teach complex distributed systems concepts on stage, in workshops, or one-on-one.
Experience building programs that required buy-in from teams outside one’s management chain.
Willingness to travel approximately 30–40% for events, community, and team activities.
Location in the San Francisco Bay Area or US remote with willingness to travel frequently to the Bay Area.

Nice To Haves

Active open source involvement as a maintainer, regular contributor, or community organizer.
Experience with distributed systems or workflow orchestration.
Experience with Temporal.
Experience building developer workshops or training programs, or managing a large event calendar.
Experience working with Product Marketing to shape technical product positioning and messaging.
Strong active connections in the Bay Area developer community and understanding of the broader developer ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop a team of Developer Advocates, setting goals and expectations and providing feedback.
Co-develop talks, review demos, pair on content, and help advocates develop their stage presence and voice.
Build the team’s operating cadence for planning, event coverage, content pipelines, and quality.
Set the strategy for building Temporal awareness and consideration among developers in North America.
Prioritize external community meetups, partner events, conferences, and open source projects.
Grow Temporal’s online developer audience through content and decisions about formats and channels.
Plan Temporal’s in-person presence across North America, balancing company events with partnerships.
Develop and deliver use-case narratives, demos, and practical experiences that demonstrate durable execution.
Set success metrics for programs, including attendee engagement, knowledge retention, developer adoption, and usage.
Identify tools, frameworks, communities, and potential partnerships that can help Temporal reach more developers.
Build relationships with partner DevRel teams and community leaders, and co-create programs, content, and events.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align messaging, campaigns, and technical narratives with company priorities.
Define and report metrics connecting advocacy to adoption and product impact.
Participate directly in advocacy work, including giving talks, writing code, and attending meetups.