Developer Relations Manager (EMEA)

About the Role

Our fast-growing, cross-disciplinary team works together or in smaller groups on a mix of projects. We organise and speak at events, produce technical content in a variety of formats and support speakers and authors from around the business to raise awareness of Aiven in the industry. Cluster, our startup program, and Aiven's own developer event are both run from this team and aim to bring Aiven to new audiences that we think will enjoy the platform. We are also proud to be the maintainers of Aiven's developer portal, and other developer-facing resources such as code repositories, integrations, and sample applications that form a big part of our delightful developer experience.

With that in mind, we are looking for excellent humans who enjoy a variety of projects to help us take care of both our people and our projects. We are scaling very quickly and want to make sure that we invest well in both our people and the work that we do. You will have line management responsibility and some project responsibilities, to align with your interests and existing experience, as well as support from your own manager to find and pursue growth opportunities yourself.

This is a 100% remote opportunity and we are hiring for this position in Europe (including UK) and USA/Canada east coast time zones.

Requirements

• You like people, especially technical ones. The team has a variety of skill sets but we serve a very technical audience, and also collaborate with other teams regularly.
• Previous line management experience and the ability to support individuals in their professional growth. Ideally also some project or initiative leadership experience too.
• A flexible attitude and good problem solving skills, for a growing startup that is constantly thinking up new ideas, and a team with a lot of ongoing activities.
• Excellent communication skills. We are a globally distributed team so you will have both difficult and fun conversations with people who don't share your language, culture or timezone.
• Open source project experience is a big plus, because the team processes lean on open source philosophy to help us stay flexible and include everyone across the timezones.
• Experience in some of the skills of developer relations such as coding, community management, writing or speaking is required. We'd also like you to use some of those skills to be hands on with our projects when you can.