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Salary: USD 152,150 - 205,850 / annual
Mapbox is seeking a Developer Relations Manager to lead the company's developer relations strategy and community engagement efforts. You will lead a team responsible for connecting Mapbox with developers globally, setting strategy for how the organization educates, engages, evangelizes, and advocates for its developer community while remaining deeply involved in hands-on developer work.
In this role, you will own and evolve the Developer Relations strategy, establishing priorities and programs that drive developer engagement, adoption, and advocacy. You'll lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Developer Relations team while building and cultivating a developer community that supports peer learning. You'll develop scalable programs spanning technical content, community engagement, social media, events, workshops, demos, webinars, and developer forums.
You will remain hands-on by creating technical content, delivering talks and demos, engaging directly with developers, and representing Mapbox externally. You'll develop and nurture relationships with developers, customers, community leaders, and technical influencers, identifying partnership opportunities for co-created content including guest blogs, tutorials, videos, and workshops.
A key responsibility is serving as the bridge between the developer community and Mapbox Product and Engineering teams, synthesizing developer feedback and identifying product and documentation improvements. You'll partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and other teams to align Developer Relations programs with company priorities. You'll also build programs enabling Mapbox engineers and technical experts to share their work with the developer community.
You will establish clear goals and success metrics for Developer Relations programs, using data, developer insights, and experimentation to evaluate impact and guide investment decisions. You'll identify opportunities to scale Developer Relations through improved processes, tooling, content, community programs, and partnerships, while representing developer needs and perspectives internally to ensure the developer experience remains central to product development and launches.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Developer Evangelism, software engineering, or related technical field, including 3+ years leading or developing others
- Strong people leadership skills with experience coaching, developing, and setting priorities for a team
- Experience building and executing Developer Relations strategies and programs, translating company and product priorities into meaningful developer initiatives
- Technical background with ability to understand and communicate about APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and software development workflows
- Engaging technical communicator with strong written and verbal skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, useful developer content
- Experience creating and delivering technical talks, demos, workshops, webinars, videos, documentation, or other developer-facing content
- Demonstrated ability to build authentic relationships and credibility within developer communities
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and experience influencing Product, Engineering, Marketing, and other stakeholders without direct authority
- Ability to move between strategy and execution—setting vision while remaining willing to contribute directly
- Experience defining metrics and using data and developer insights to evaluate program effectiveness and prioritize investments
- Ability to operate effectively across multiple technical platforms, from web APIs and SDKs to geospatial technology, data, and mobile development
- Strong organizational and program management skills with ability to prioritize across multiple initiatives in fast-moving environment
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, identifying opportunities, and building programs or processes where playbooks may not exist
- Enthusiasm for Mapbox technology and its role in shaping the future of maps, location, and navigation
