Developer Relations

As a Developer Relations, you’ll be the bridge between Zencoder and the developer community, serving as both an advocate for developers and an evangelist for Zencoder’s products and services. You’ll engage with developers to build relationships, provide community support, and advocate for Zencoder’s products and services. This role involves creating educational content, being a technical ambassador, representing Zencoder at events, gathering feedback, and collaborating closely with various teams to drive product adoption and community engagement.

• Community & Social Presence: Own Zencoder’s voice in the developer ecosystem. Be active where developers actually are—X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Discord, Hacker News, GitHub discussions. Start conversations, respond credibly, and build real relationships with engineers, not corporate followers.
• Developer Advocacy: Be the public technical face of Zencoder. Advocate for developers internally and externally by clearly articulating real-world pain points, and showing how Zencoder actually helps teams ship better software. Represent Zencoder in podcasts, AMAs, panels, meetups, and conferences
•  Create Content That Engineers Respect: Create sharp, technical, high-signal content that developers want to read and share - Short-form social content (threads, demos, clips), Deep-dive blog posts and tutorials, Opinionated comparisons and breakdowns, Live demos, walkthroughs, and behind-the-scenes builds. Focus on clarity, honesty, and usefulness—not marketing fluff.
• Community Feedback Loop: Be the connective tissue between the community and the product team. Collect unfiltered feedback, spot emerging patterns, and push insights back into product, docs, and roadmap discussions. Help ensure Zencoder evolves in a way developers actually care about.
• Pre-Sales Support: Work with the sales and marketing teams to provide technical demos and answer technical questions for potential customers. Assist in developing solutions tailored to customers’ needs and provide technical expertise during the sales process.
• Developer Experience Improvement: Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to enhance developer UX/UI with Zencoder, ensuring a smooth developer experience.
• Events & Presence: Represent Zencoder at hackathons, meetups, and conferences with energy and authenticity. Run workshops, live builds, and interactive sessions that leave developers smarter than when they walked in.

• Builder First, Advocate Second: You’re a strong software engineer who actively builds, experiments, and ships. You’re comfortable working across real codebases and can speak credibly about systems, tradeoffs, and failure modes—not just features.
• Technically Fluent: You have hands-on experience with modern development stacks (Python, JavaScript, Java, Rust, or similar). You understand how developers actually work and have a working mental model of AI systems, LLMs, agents, RAG, and tooling—bonus points if you’ve broken things while experimenting.
• Industry-Recognized Voice: You’ve had speaking abstracts accepted at respected technical conferences or are clearly on that trajectory. You know how to spot topics developers care about and frame them in a way that gets attention without hype.
• Clear, Opinionated Communicator: You can explain complex technical ideas simply, honestly, and confidently—whether that’s on stage, in a live demo, or in a short social post. You’re comfortable being visible and having a point of view.
• Content Creator with Taste: You create technical content that developers actually respect: Blogs, tutorials, and deep dives, Social threads, demos, and walkthroughs, Videos that show real workflows. You prioritize clarity and usefulness over polish or marketing spin.
• Community-Driven: You enjoy being part of developer communities—not managing them from a distance. You participate, listen, respond, and contribute. Open-source experience is a plus, but curiosity and authenticity matter more.
• Developer-Centric Mindset: You instinctively think from the developer’s point of view. You can identify real pain points, translate them into insights for product teams, and help developers succeed without over-engineering the answer.
• Collaborative Operator: You’re comfortable working cross-functionally with product, engineering, marketing, and sales - but you anchor your decisions in developer trust and technical reality.

• 3+ years of experience in software development, DevRel, or a technical role
• Strong understanding of modern developer workflows, tooling, & AI dev
• Hands-on familiarity with LLMs, agents, and AI-powered developer tools
• Proven experience speaking at conferences, meetups, webinars, or public technical forums
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to create engaging, high-signal technical content
• Active familiarity with developer platforms like GitHub and online dev communities

The anticipated base salary for this position is up to $200,000 gross. The final offer may vary based on geographic location, relevant experience, education, and seniority compared to others in similar roles. 

• Shape the Future of Software Creation: We’re not just improving how developers write code — we’re redefining how ideas turn into reality. By closing the gap between concept and execution, we’re creating tools that will influence every industry that relies on software.
• Massive Impact, Real Ownership: At Zencoder, you’ll have full visibility into how your work moves the product and the company forward. You’ll ship features that matter, see the immediate impact of your decisions, and get feedback directly from users — fast.
• ICs Are the Core: Individual Contributors are the highest-status role at Zencoder. Our culture celebrates those who lead by doing — who create momentum, inspire others, and turn ideas into shipped products.
• High-Caliber Team & Founder: Work alongside exceptional AI and software engineers, and learn directly from Andrew Filev, founder of a unicorn startup, who brings deep expertise in scaling world-class technology companies.
• Global & Flexible: We hire talent, not coordinates. Work from wherever you’re happiest and most productive — as long as you bring the energy, focus, and results.
• Aligned Incentives: Our equity plan ensures that when we succeed, you succeed. Your impact compounds as the company grows.