How do I hire a developer advocate?
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How do I hire a developer advocate?
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Re: How do I hire a developer advocate?
#2Developer Advocate seems like quite an interesting and appealing role - learning about and advocating interesting tech.
I am currently out of the IT workforce but if I return I might look into it as an ex CTO.
Any experiences here?
Re: How do I hire a developer advocate?
#3> bottoms up
Well, if you want to get fucked, I guess.
This article seems to know nothing about software development, and could have been generated by a badly programmed AI.
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#5My biggest solution: pay more
I would love a developer advocate role. Been searching for a good one for a while now. But almost every position I see pays just slightly above junior engineer range, as if developer advocates are just washed up engineers who couldn't quite make it. Well, if thats how you pay, thats what you will get.
If anyone is willing to pay for my years of focus and experience on "developer experience", and make your product all the better by having a dev advocate who actually has been there, let me know.
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#6By building interesting products for developers.
Not appearing corporate like this article does.
Making sure that there is something unique to advocate about.
Re: How do I hire a developer advocate?
#7My biggest solution: pay more I would love a developer advocate role. Been searching for a good one for a while now. But almost every position I see pays just slightly above junior engineer range, as if developer advocates are just washed up engineers who couldn't quite make it. Well, if thats how you pay, thats what you will get. If anyone is willing to pay for my years of focus and experience on "developer experien…
Hey, I'm hiring dev advocates who aren't just "washed up engineers." It looks like you started in a new role recently so maybe you didn't mean "let me know" literally, but here's me letting you know. Hit me up: greg@pinecone.io
Re: How do I hire a developer advocate?
#8My biggest solution: pay more I would love a developer advocate role. Been searching for a good one for a while now. But almost every position I see pays just slightly above junior engineer range, as if developer advocates are just washed up engineers who couldn't quite make it. Well, if thats how you pay, thats what you will get. If anyone is willing to pay for my years of focus and experience on "developer experien…
I think a really important factor is where in the reporting structure DevRel sits. I was a Dev Advocate at Google, and because we were in the engineering ladder there was not much of a comp difference between my role and a SWE. We had folks from junior all the way to senior staff / principal (basically Director level IC). If anything, some folks got paid more because they had really solid engineering skills along with public speaking and marketing skills.
Other places put DevRel in marketing (not always a bad thing, but a definite red flag) and/or treat them like glorified blog post writers and talking heads. You won't get high quality folks if this is the case.
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#9This article is a nice nuts and bolts discussion.
However, for a different perspective, here's a couple of articles by experienced developer relations folks about that first hire and the tension between tactics and strategy, among other things.
https://talktotheduck.dev/youre-doing-it-wrong-recruiting-a-...
https://taylorbar.net/posts/recruiting-your-first-developer-...
Re: How do I hire a developer advocate?
#10My biggest solution: pay more I would love a developer advocate role. Been searching for a good one for a while now. But almost every position I see pays just slightly above junior engineer range, as if developer advocates are just washed up engineers who couldn't quite make it. Well, if thats how you pay, thats what you will get. If anyone is willing to pay for my years of focus and experience on "developer experien…
We're hiring a devrel and our jobs show pay ranges: https://fusionauth.io/jobs/senior-developer-advocate
I don't think they pay junior engineer level, but if they are, please let me know.