Senior Developer Experience Manager

Docker is a remote first company with employees across Europe, APAC and the Americas that simplifies the lives of developers who are making world-changing apps.  We raised our Series C funding in March 2022 for $105M at a $2.1B valuation. We continued to see exponential revenue growth last year.  Join us for a whale of a ride!

The DevRel team at Docker serves as the bridge between Docker and its community of 14 million developers. We strive to support and train all developers to use Docker to build incredible applications. We focus on both the current generation of developers and the 15 million developers that will be entering the industry over the next 10 years. The challenge is great, but so are the opportunities!

In this role, your primary focus will be developer obsession. You will help them be successful and more productive by using Docker’s tooling. You might do so by answering questions on social media, writing blog posts, participating in conferences and meetups, producing videos, creating training and workshop materials, and more. As you do so, you will gather feedback and struggles and relay them to the various product teams to help make Docker’s tooling even better! You will also work closely with the Docker Captains to train and solicit feedback on future efforts.

A successful candidate is passionate about lowering the barrier of entry for all developers, regardless of their programming language, tools, or experience level. They will be both a strong communicator and a skilled developer, helping ensure the community can trust the content they produce. They can work with their team and with others across the company to develop training programs for both new and existing products. As they recognize opportunities for new programs and initiatives, they will create and propose plans and help guide the implementation of an accepted plan.

Responsibilities:

• Work with product teams, customer success, sales engineering, and our docs teams to drive the end-to-end strategy and produce training and education materials for both current and future products and features
• Provide technical support and guidance to the developer community through a variety of channels, including enablement materials for our Docker Captains and influencers
• Develop and maintain sample end-to-end applications using current best practices, including development environments using Docker, CI/CD, testing, and deployment to various environments
• Ability to travel occasionally to speak or represent Docker at both large industry-wide conferences and smaller regional/local conferences or meetups
• Collaborate with internal teams to help shape product road map and future initiatives

Qualifications:

• Experience in creating educational programs and materials in a variety of formats like for example webinars
• Significant experience in building and deploying applications using a variety of languages, CI/CD systems, and deployment strategies (cloud, Kubernetes, Swarm, Compose, etc.)
• Experience in creating/presenting at podcasts, speaking at conferences or other public venues
• Top-notch interpersonal skills and the ability to help all developers

What to expect in the first 30 days

• Meet the team and others across the company
• Understand and help shape the team mission
• Start building content to help educate the community
• Meet with the Docker Captains

What to expect in the first 90 days

• Meet additional partners across the company
• Attend one or more conferences representing Docker
• Get to know several key content creators in the community
• Help shape and create a content pipeline/schedule to help educate developers

What to expect in the first year

• Gained full autonomy of your desired content to support the community
• Helped shape the education and outreach efforts of DevRel at Docker
• Partnered with product teams to help their new features be adopted by the Docker community
• Spoken or participated at multiple conferences, meetups, or other outreach efforts
• Positively impacted the productivity of millions of developers and users around the world!

Perks:

• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
• Variety of virtual and in-person social events to build connections and have fun
• Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 net/month
• PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
• Whaleness Days: companywide day off each month
• Quarterly, company-wide hackathons
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
• Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
• Docker Swag
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country

Docker embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

CA/NY/Boulder, CO/Denver, CO $168K – $210K

EU Salary Range  94,400 EUR – 118,000 EUR

*salary range can change depending on the level

Due to the remote nature of this role, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

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