Engineering Manager, Developer Relations (DevRel)

The Engineering Manager, Developer Relations will lead, strategize, and execute DevRel initiatives, engaging developer communities, enhancing brand visibility, and creating technical content. Responsibilities: Strategic Brand Advocacy: Elevate Deepgram's technical brand through strategic outreach, thought leadership, and authentic community engagement. Developer Evangelism and Thought Leadership: Serve as Deepgram's lead developer community spokesperson, proactively participating in conferences, podcasts, webinars, and industry forums to grow our technical reputation. Technical Content Creation and Curation: Oversee and personally contribute to deeply technical, educational content including technical blogs, detailed documentation, SDK guides, code samples, and in-depth tutorials. Developer Onboarding & Enablement: Create starter resources and structured onboarding experiences that streamline and simplify developer adoption and early success with Deepgram's APIs and tools. Open-Source Contribution and Engagement: Foster an active open-source community by initiating and supporting high-quality open-source projects, encouraging community contributions, and maintaining healthy, collaborative interactions Technical Community Enablement: Collaborate closely with the Director of Community Growth, specifically focusing on technically enabling developer communities and providing deeper technical interactions, support, and guidance within events and developer-focused platforms. Developer-First Feedback Loop: Establish robust mechanisms to listen and respond to developer feedback, leaning heavily on automation where possible, with the goal of supporting continuous product improvement and reinforcing trust within the developer community, a focus that should remain central for the team. Metrics-Driven Growth and Visibility: Work closely with Marketing to define and measure key performance indicators, reflecting community health and technical brand strength, and adjusting strategies for maximum impact and visibility, while delivering on cross-organization goals.

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram's voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing. Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases. The company ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth across the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed and over 1 trillion words transcribed. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram Deepgram recognizes that a strong Developer Relations (DevRel) operation not only fosters vibrant developer communities, but is instrumental in building and amplifying technical brand awareness. Exceptional DevRel practices drive meaningful developer engagement and turn developers into advocates and customers.