Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate
LaunchDarkly2 months ago
Base Salary
$146k - $235k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design the Enterprise Developer Advocacy program from pilot through repeatable practice, including formats, account criteria, readouts, and measurement.
- Deliver education-first technical sessions on agents and AgentControl, safe rollouts, experimentation, and runtime control inside target accounts.
- Partner with AEs, SEs, and CS to identify accounts, develop internal champions, and hand off opportunities to the appropriate teams.
- Maintain the non-promotional, education-first character of the sessions.
- Instrument the pilot, produce session readouts, debrief with representatives, and recommend whether to scale, adjust, or stop.
- Define the future scaling model and playbook for other advocates.
Requirements
- Background spanning at least two of developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or technical marketing.
- Ability to teach technical sessions to large enterprise engineering groups and answer challenging questions from senior architects.
- Hands-on technical credibility, including building, demonstrating, and teaching technical concepts.
- Strong operational skills for running repeatable programs, prioritizing demand, and supporting field commitments.
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time.
- Bonus: experience with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent orchestration tooling.
- Bonus: experience building customer-facing technical programs such as workshops, DevDays, or office hours from scratch.
- Bonus: deep enterprise software experience and understanding of platform decisions in large engineering organizations.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, dental, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
- Approximately 25% travel is required.
- Geographic pay zones apply within the United States.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly sells a feature management platform for software teams, providing feature flags, experimentation, observability, and runtime controls for code and AI agents. Its SaaS products help release safely, target rollouts, and adjust behavior after deploy without redeploys. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, CA, the company processes tens of trillions of flag evaluations daily and is used by over a quarter of the Fortune 500.