Director, Developer Marketing
At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.
In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.
The Mission
Build and scale Algolia’s global developer marketing strategy to inspire, educate, and engage developers everywhere. You will own the vision for how Algolia shows up in the developer ecosystem—through content, events, partnerships, programs, and world-class documentation—ultimately driving developer adoption and advocacy.
The Opportunity
Algolia’s developer community is at the heart of our growth. Our platform is trusted by developers who demand speed, relevance, and reliability. This role will lead the global developer marketing function, managing a multi-million-dollar budget and overseeing teams responsible for developer evangelism, developer documentation, and community engagement.
You will take over established high-value relationships with partners like Hacker News, Hackernoon, Dev.to, and expand our footprint at major conferences (AWS re:Invent, GopherCon, Haystack, and others). You will also help drive Algolia’s flagship programs like DocSearch, our start up and open source programs, and help ideate and foster creative projects like SwagSearch.
This is a role for a strategic leader who can operate at the intersection of marketing, product, and community—and who knows how to make Algolia a first thought for any developer building search and discovery.
The Team
Growth at Algolia is a unique hybrid organization that sits in both R&D and GTM. The Developer Marketing team sits within the Growth Marketing side of the house and collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing. We’re a remote-first, globally distributed group of marketers, engineers, evangelists, and technical writers passionate about making developers successful.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Set the strategy for developer marketing globally, ensuring we speak with an authentic voice across all channels and programs.
- Own and develop key partnerships with developer-facing communities and influencers (Hacker News, Hackernoon, etc.).
- Oversee developer events strategy, including conference sponsorships, speaking engagements, workshops, and creative activations like SwagSearch.
- Lead flagship developer acquisition programs like DocSearch, our Open Source/Startup Programs, and startup outreach, ensuring they deliver measurable developer engagement.
- Direct paid marketing for developers, including advertising campaigns, sponsorships, and experimental acquisition channels.
- Manage budgets for growth events, paid media, and community initiatives, ensuring high ROI on spend.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and GTM teams to ensure developer needs inform roadmap and messaging.
- Lead and grow a high-performing team across developer evangelism and documentation, fostering collaboration and career development.
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- 7+ years of marketing experience, with 5+ in developer marketing, developer relations, or technical community leadership.
- Deep understanding of developer audiences, culture, and engagement channels.
- A proven track record in building and scaling global developer programs.
- Strong network in the developer community and familiarity with platforms like GitHub, Dev.to, Hacker News,etc
- Experience managing large budgets across paid, events, and community programs.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience managing distributed teams across multiple functions.
#LI-remote
Algolia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects US market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
Remote US: Base Salary Pay Range
$202,500 - $253,435 USD
FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:
- GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
- TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
- HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
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READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
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