About us
We’re an early stage, well-funded team with a proven track record of shipping open source software with global adoption. We put a premium on respectful, clear, and complete communication, and we expect each other to be creative, curious, effective, and empathetic. We believe deeply that the right tools and abstractions enable not just technological transformation, but also organizational transformation. We strive to put the user and their hard work at the center of our decision making.
All of our open source work is done publicly. You can gain context about how we collaborate as a team and the problems we work on by exploring GitHub and looking at our code reviews.
About the role
As Developer Relations Lead, you will lead the development of a vibrant open-source community around Dagster, our data orchestration product. You will also have the opportunity to help us shape the DevRel team as it grows. Over the past year, the Dagster community has grown to over 10,000 members across thousands of organizations. Our users have different backgrounds and skill sets and represent organizations across many industries, from healthcare to quantum computing. Your team will create product education materials that will help our users to smoothly onboard to Dagster and succeed in learning about the project and best practices, adapting Dagster to their custom infrastructure, evaluate Dagster for their organization, or anything in between.
This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We have offices across the U.S. and flexible working hours. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.
Responsibilities
- You will own the high-level community growth strategy and its day-to-day execution.
- You will play a critical role in top of funnel user acquisition for Dagster Cloud and are highly aligned with our Growth outcome metrics.
- You will create opportunities for users to: learn how to use Dagster, show off their Dagster projects, build connections within the community, share product feedback.
- You will develop relationships with highly engaged users, and produce technical content.
- You have a pulse on what content users are interested in and what features users want, and are excited to start new community initiatives like virtual conferences and meetups.
- You will guide the ongoing involvement of the engineering team with the community.
- You deeply value inclusivity and work to cultivate belonging.
- You will have autonomy in scoping, prioritizing, and executing on projects, with the north star of serving the growing Dagster community.
Qualifications
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.
- Previous experience leading a Developer Relations team, including management experience
- Previous experience as a data practitioner - data engineer, ML engineer, analytics engineer, or data analyst.
- Proficiency in Python
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience producing high-quality technical content.
This is a full-time, competitively paid position with benefits. We have offices across the U.S. and flexible working hours. Every employee is provided a remote work stipend to cover the cost of home office equipment and anything else that makes your remote work location comfortable, productive, or successful. And if you’d rather not work from home, we’ll cover the cost of a coworking or office space if you’re fully remote.
You belong here
We are committed to building an inclusive team and an open source community where no one feels out of place. We know that teams with diverse backgrounds state their assumptions more explicitly, think more rigorously, and build better software. Plus it's more fun and interesting to work with a wide variety of perspectives. You should apply to work at Elementl if you want to work in, and help to build and strengthen, a high-performing software development environment where people of all backgrounds are welcome.
Our Stack
Dagster is built in Python and TypeScript to work on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Our cloud product runs on AWS and Postgres. We integrate with a wide range of databases, data warehouses, orchestration engines, compute substrates, and cloud services.
The estimated annual cash salary for this role is $180,000 - $225,000.
Other resources:
- ℹ️ Learn more about Dagster
- ▶️ Watch the 10 min Dagster Overview
- ▶️ Hear from some members of our team
- ▶️ Hear from some of our users
No recruiters please.
