Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate
LaunchDarklyBase 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.
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About LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is the runtime control layer for the AI era. For over a decade we have helped engineering teams control what ships in production, starting with feature management and evolving into the infrastructure that governs how software and AI agents behave after deploy. With CodeControl and AgentControl, teams can update agent behavior in milliseconds, automatically roll back when something drifts, and govern every agent and feature across the organization from one place. No redeploys required. LaunchDarkly processes more than 50 trillion flag evaluations per day and serves some of the most demanding engineering teams in the world, including over a quarter of the Fortune 500. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 for five consecutive years, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list, and the Inc. 5000.