Principal Developer Advocate

Details

• Technical Fluency: 10+ years in technical roles including software or platform engineering, developer advocacy, solution engineering, or other fields. You are deeply familiar with modern development workflows and patterns.
• Advocacy Experience: 5+ years experience engaging with developers in visible, public facing roles, and advocating for their needs cross-functionally within your organization.
• Community Leadership: Experience engaging in sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
• Partner Engagement: Experience collaborating with partners on technical and product marketing integrations and other partnership activities.
• Communication: Exceptional skills at written and verbal communication. You communicate well in multiple formats including conference talks, blog posts, tutorials, books, videos, social media, and through technical assets including demo code or reference architectures. You are good at talking and listening.
• Connection: You are a trusted and credible voice in the industry and have a large technical audience who use your perspective to shape their real-world technical and architectural choices.
• Security Focus: Experience dealing with security-conscious developer communities or products (Identity, Auth, DevSecOps) is a strong plus.
• Engage: Create content that sparks engagement with current and potential 1Password developer community members, at scale, across channels. Generate awareness, engage in great technical conversations, and help users try, contribute to, and give feedback about product workflows.
• Build: Engineer solutions to unsolved user needs that fill gaps, validate approaches, and inspire secure engineering practices in the real world, in collaboration with users and 1Password partners.
• Advocate: Synthesize feedback and conversations with community members and partners into actionable insights for 1Password, that we can use to improve our user-facing workflows.
• Strategize: Use data to evaluate engagement channels, and prioritize ones that effectively generate awareness and adoption at scale. Maximize the impact of targeted, high-investment activities like conference speaking to generate impact beyond their normal lifespan.
• Speak: Use your speaking experience at the largest and highest-stakes developer conferences, including KubeCon, re:Invent, and others.
• Enable: Build tools and training to help other 1Password employees engage effectively with the community. These could be speaking training, talk templates, community engagement guidelines, or other tools that can scale advocacy beyond the DA team. Collaborate with other teams to raise the technical bar for their content.