Head of Developer Relations

Details

ClickHouse is seeking a Head of Developer Relations to lead how developers discover ClickHouse, become productive with it, and help others adopt it. The role owns developer experience, technical content, developer channels, and community programs for ClickHouse's real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI platform. You will lead a globally distributed team of developer advocates and work closely with product marketing engineers, regional field marketing, product, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a globally distributed team of developer advocates.
• Set ClickHouse's long-term developer and community strategy and translate it into a multi-year plan covering headcount, budget, and investment priorities.
• Own the external developer experience, including time to first query, getting-started completion, onboarding friction logs, and the feedback loop with product and engineering.
• Own the Developer Relations budget and represent the function to customers, partners, and the open-source community through events, speaking engagements, and podcasts.
• Set and report on targets for community growth and engagement across Slack, Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, and advocates' own platforms, as well as developer-experience metrics, content reach, and channel performance.
• Build a champions program with tracks for customers, open-source users, and independent community voices.
• Grow owned developer channels including YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, and advocates' platforms.
• Create a content system that turns talks and demonstrations into tutorials, videos, and written posts, supported by creator partnerships.
• Manage the developer-event portfolio, including meetups, conference talks, and practitioner-led sessions, with recorded and written content produced from each event.
• Shape developer education and technical content, including tutorials, workshops, courses, and certification, in collaboration with the training team, product marketing engineers, and the organic and AEO team.
• Work with regional field marketing to support in-region developer programs and the startup and partner ecosystem.

Requirements

• Experience leading a developer relations or community team at an infrastructure company.
• Direct management experience with four or more people and strong leadership of distributed teams.
• Deep technical skills, including the ability to write demonstrations, ship tutorials, and discuss database internals with engineers.
• Experience running developer events and speaking programs.
• Experience building developer education or content programs involving tutorials, courses, video, or documentation.
• Experience growing owned developer channels such as YouTube, newsletters, or podcasts.
• Understanding of how developers find technical content, including through AI assistants.
• Experience building or scaling developer programs such as champions, ambassador, or MVP programs.
• Experience measuring community growth, engagement, signups, and pipeline impact without turning advocates into salespeople.
• Ability to operate globally and cross-functionally with product, engineering, product marketing, and field teams.
• Developer relations or community leadership around an open-source project with an established community.
• Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time.

Benefits

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment in a globally distributed company operating in more than 25 countries.
• Employer healthcare contributions.
• Company equity for eligible new team members.
• Flexible time off in the United States and generous time-off entitlement in other countries.
• USD 500 home-office setup allowance for remote employees.
• Opportunities to participate in company-wide global gatherings and offsites.
• Equal employment opportunities and a commitment to a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.