Head of Developer Relations

Role Description

The Head of Developer Relations owns how developers discover, learn, adopt, and champion Fireworks. You build and lead the team that turns Fireworks into the platform developers reach for first when they want to build, fine-tune, and serve frontier open models in production. You set the strategy, run the programs, and build the team that makes our developer community the most informed and most active in AI infrastructure.

You will cultivate developer communities everywhere developers actually are, across the properties we own and the ones we do not, and in person at the events that matter. You will build a team of developer advocates who are genuinely in tune with the frontier and can become credible, hands-on experts in the newest AI developments faster than anyone else in the market. The field moves weekly. Your team has to be one step ahead.

The right person is a builder and an operator who is equally comfortable shipping a demo, speaking on a conference stage, recruiting elite advocates, and reporting developer health metrics to the executive team. You think about developer relations the way a great product leader thinks about a product: who the user is, what they need, how they adopt, and how you measure it.

Qualifications

• Experience in developer relations or a related field.
• Strong technical background in AI or software development.
• Proven ability to build and lead teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to measure and report on developer engagement metrics.

Requirements

• Remote-friendly within the US.
• Periodic travel to San Mateo HQ and key events.

Responsibilities

• Developer Community, Owned and Unowned: Cultivate Fireworks developer communities across every surface where developers gather, including owned properties like docs, blog, examples, cookbooks, Discord, forums, and developer newsletter, as well as unowned properties like GitHub, X, Reddit, YouTube, and Hacker News.
• In-Person Events and Field Presence: Own the in-person strategy that builds real relationships at scale through hackathons, workshops, meetups, conference talks, sponsorships, and developer dinners.
• Building and Leading the Advocate Team: Hire, develop, and lead a team of developer advocates who can become credible experts on the newest models, techniques, and tools.
• Technical Content and Developer Education: Own the content engine that helps developers go from first touch to production, including tutorials, quickstarts, reference apps, benchmarks, video, and deep technical writing.
• Developer Advocacy into Product: Channel friction, feature requests, and unmet needs from the community back to product and engineering.
• Measurement and Developer Funnel: Instrument the developer journey from awareness through signup, first build, and active production usage, and report developer health to the executive team.

Benefits

• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers.

What Success Looks Like

• Fireworks is consistently present and credible across owned and unowned developer properties.
• A repeatable in-person events playbook is driving qualified developer relationships and measurable downstream activation.
• A high-caliber advocate team is in place and is reliably first to ship authoritative content when a major model or technique drops.
• The developer funnel from awareness to production usage is instrumented and visible in shared dashboards.