AI Developer Advocate

Summary

Join Redpanda, a fast-growing streaming data platform company, as a Developer Evangelist specializing in AI. You will be a technical thought leader, creating educational content and engaging with AI developer audiences. Responsibilities include developing content strategies, producing videos and written materials, building relationships with AI ecosystem partners, and collaborating with internal teams. You will also measure the impact of your activities and stay current on AI data platform market trends. This highly cross-functional role requires strong collaboration skills and experience in creating code-intensive content. Redpanda offers a remote-first work environment and competitive compensation.

Requirements

• Passion for all things developer experience, social engagement, and fostering relationships in developer communities
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills for internal and external engagement around AI and event driven technologies
• Hands-on experience creating code-intensive content in various formats such as videos, live streams, podcasts, and blogs
• Familiarity with Golang, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, and Python
• Public speaking experience and desire to present to small and large groups, meetups, and conferences
• Demonstrated engagement on Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, Dev.to, and other developer-centric channels
• Creativity, curiosity, wit, humor, and a sense of collaboration in your creative process
• Solid project management skills with a high bar for delivering content with quality
• A framework for measuring performance via metrics and decisions based on data
• High curiosity to discover and experiment with new technologies, keeping other team members abreast of current developments
• Experience building distributed data applications such as Kafka, working with AI systems including RAG, Vector stores along with emergent protocols in MCP, A2A, and cloud infrastructure
• Proficiency in written English, with examples of work that demonstrates your ability to simplify complex concepts for developers

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategy with quarterly roadmaps for technical content and community development based on business priorities
• Contribute hands-on to technical content in video and written format, ideation and speaking engagements
• Develop relationships with counterparts in the AI tech ecosystem including partner advocates (and competitors), influencers, and foster trust
• Engage with product and engineering teams to provide code samples, improvements, and spec feedback to drive the roadmap
• Assist the marketing team in designing developer engagement campaigns, support marketing launches and demand generation campaigns with AI community activities
• Goal and measure the impact of your activities through data
• Stay current with the AI data platform market and identify new opportunities for showcasing Redpanda with emerging agentic and streaming infrastructure data stacks
• Be a subject matter expert on topics not limited to AI/ML, data connectivity, event driven architectures, serverless and cloud-native development

Preferred Qualifications

Your best examples for developer content, talks, community strategies and goal planning

Benefits

• U.S. base salary range for this role is $188,500, - $215,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $177,000 - $208,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process
• 100% remote organization with team members around the globe