Staff Technical Product Evangelist

DigitalOcean • San Francisco, CA

1d • $180,000 - $209,000 • Remote

About The Position

DigitalOcean is building the cloud for AI builders, and our Technical Product Evangelism team tells that story to the technical audiences who matter most: the conference talks, the social content, the hands-on workshops, and the campaigns that make DigitalOcean's technical story land with the AI-native companies choosing their infrastructure. This role sits between product marketing and developer advocacy, and it's distinct from both. Where PMM owns positioning, launch coordination, and go-to-market strategy, and Developer Advocates create content driven by their own practitioner curiosity, Technical Product Evangelists are hands-on technical content creators in service of the company's narrative. As the most senior member of this team, you'll do the work and define how the work gets done. You'll set the quality bar for what we put on stage and on screen, decide where the team's effort goes when demand outstrips capacity, and serve as the primary creative partner to our executives on their most important technical appearances. You'll spend as much time delivering talks yourself as you do building them for others; this role carries its own stage presence, not just other people's.

Requirements

• 8+ years in technical marketing, product marketing, solutions engineering, developer relations, or technical content, including experience setting direction for a content function or body of work — not just executing within one
• A track record as a speaker: talks you've delivered yourself at conferences or industry events, with the stage presence to represent a company in front of a technically demanding audience
• Enough technical depth to be credible with AI engineers and infrastructure teams — and enough hands-on ability to back it up. You can build a working demo, record a walkthrough of a product you just picked up, explain inference economics, and speak concretely about how products compare to their competition
• Fluency with AI-assisted creation. You use AI coding and content tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to move from idea to polished demo, video, or campaign asset fast — and you have the taste and judgment to ship work that never feels AI-generated
• Experience partnering directly with executives on high-stakes content, and the judgment to serve someone else's voice as skillfully as your own
• The ability to hold two modes at once: personal credibility when you're the speaker, and craft satisfaction in making someone else's story excellent when you're not
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; regular in-person presence at Bay Area events is core to the role

Nice To Haves

• Experience at an AI infrastructure, developer tools, or cloud company
• An active technical presence on X, with an engaged audience of AI practitioners
• Experience mentoring or leading other content creators, formally or informally
• Familiarity with how LLMs and AI coding tools shape technical purchasing decisions

Responsibilities

• Shape the function. Define the standards, the operating rhythm, and the prioritization for technical evangelism at DigitalOcean: which executive engagements get deep support, which campaigns we run, and what excellent looks like. You'll guide the work of other evangelists on the team.
• Deliver talks yourself, roughly half your time. Represent DigitalOcean on stage at conferences, meetups, and customer-facing events across the Bay Area and beyond, with the technical depth and presence to hold a sophisticated room.
• Serve as the primary content partner to DigitalOcean's executives. Own the decks, narratives, and preparation for our most important leadership appearances at third-party events. You'll work directly with VPs and C-level leaders, translate their ideas into compelling technical stories, and manage the content from CFP to stage.
• Create our deepest technical content on X. Partner with our Social team, which runs the channel and calendar, to produce the technical content behind product launches and industry moments — the videos, demos, threads, and posts that require someone who actually understands the technology.
• Build and run brand-aligned technical campaigns. Hands-on labs, workshop materials, and in-person programming for enterprise AI-native accounts, starting with our agentic coding initiatives in the Bay Area.

Benefits

• Competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses
• Bonus in addition to base salary
• Equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed