Director, Developer Marketing

Algolia is a fast-growing company that helps businesses deliver intuitive search and discovery experiences on their websites and mobile apps. Our APIs power thousands of customers in over 100 countries, handling 1.5 trillion searches a year—more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and Yandex combined.

Build and scale Algolia’s global developer marketing strategy to inspire, educate, and engage developers everywhere. You will own the vision for how Algolia shows up in the developer ecosystem—through content, events, partnerships, programs, and world-class documentation—ultimately driving developer adoption and advocacy.

 The Opportunity

Algolia’s developer community is at the heart of our growth. Our platform is trusted by developers who demand speed, relevance, and reliability. This role will lead the global developer marketing function, managing a multi-million-dollar budget and overseeing teams responsible for developer evangelism, developer documentation, and community engagement.

You will take over established high-value relationships with partners like Hacker News, Hackernoon, Dev.to, and expand our footprint at major conferences (AWS re:Invent, GopherCon, Haystack, and others). You will also help drive Algolia’s flagship programs like DocSearch, our start up and open source programs, and help ideate and foster creative projects like SwagSearch.

This is a role for a strategic leader who can operate at the intersection of marketing, product, and community—and who knows how to make Algolia a first thought for any developer building search and discovery.

Growth at Algolia is a unique hybrid organization that sits in both R&D and GTM.  The Developer Marketing team sits within the Growth Marketing side of the house and collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing.  We’re a remote-first, globally distributed group of marketers, engineers, evangelists, and technical writers passionate about making developers successful.

• Set the strategy for developer marketing globally, ensuring we speak with an authentic voice across all channels and programs.
• Own and develop key partnerships with developer-facing communities and influencers (Hacker News, Hackernoon, etc.).
• Oversee developer events strategy, including conference sponsorships, speaking engagements, workshops, and creative activations like SwagSearch.
• Lead flagship developer acquisition programs like DocSearch, our Open Source/Startup Programs, and startup outreach, ensuring they deliver measurable developer engagement.
• Direct paid marketing for developers, including advertising campaigns, sponsorships, and experimental acquisition channels.
• Manage budgets for growth events, paid media, and community initiatives, ensuring high ROI on spend.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to ensure developer needs inform roadmap and messaging.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team across developer evangelism and documentation, fostering collaboration and career development.

• 7+ years of marketing experience, with 5+ in developer marketing, developer relations, or technical community leadership.
• Deep understanding of developer audiences, culture, and engagement channels.
• A proven track record in building and scaling global developer programs.
• Strong network in the developer community and familiarity with platforms like GitHub, Dev.to, Hacker News,etc
• Experience managing large budgets across paid, events, and community programs.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing distributed teams across multiple functions.

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

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FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

ABOUT US:

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!