Build and lead the Developer Relations team, hiring and mentoring Developer Advocates and technical engagement specialists.
Drive the company-wide Developer Relations strategy, focusing on the adoption of 1Password’s developer tools (CLI, SDKs, SSH, developer environments).
Create and maintain a feedback loop between the developer community and our internal Product and Engineering teams to improve our offerings.
Oversee the creation of world-class technical content, including documentation, blogs, demos, and sample code that demonstrates security best practices.
Represent 1Password in the global developer community, ensuring we are a trusted voice in conversations about security, privacy, and authentication.
Establish metrics and reporting to measure the impact of DevRel activities on product adoption and community health.
Partner with Marketing and Sales to translate developer love into business growth, without compromising the authenticity of the community relationship.
Lead the response to community crises or technical incidents, partnering with Security and Comms to provide transparent, developer-centric updates.

Experience: 8+ years leading Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or Community programs, including experience with open source communities and technical platform adoption.
Management Experience: 5+ years experience managing individual contributors, as well as experience managing other managers.
Strategic Builder: Proven expertise in building DevRel strategies from the ground up, moving beyond "awareness" to driving tangible product adoption and developer success.
Technical Fluency: You were a full-time developer in a previous life or have deep technical fluency in modern development workflows (CI/CD, SSH, authentication standards).
Community Safety: Passion for fostering psychological safety and stability in complex, public-facing community environments.
Security Focus (Strong Plus): Experience dealing with security-conscious developer communities or products (Identity, Auth, DevSecOps) is a strong plus.
Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with executives, legal counsel, and the public.
Community Leadership: Experience facilitating sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.

immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
utilization of our generous paid time off
an equity grant
participation in our incentive programs

Director, Developer Relations

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