Senior Director, Developer Relations

About Starburst
At Starburst, we are working to dismantle the status quo of data silos and vendor lock-in every single day. For decades, database companies have held their customers hostage and we believe that’s just plain wrong. Starburst offers a full-featured data lake analytics platform, built on open source Trino. Our platform includes all the capabilities needed to discover, organize, and consume data without the need for time-consuming and costly migration projects. Today more than 300 leading organizations trust us to make better decisions faster. 
Though Starburst has raised $414M in venture funding from top investors, we were founded in a rather unusual way as we bootstrapped the business with customers and revenue from the very beginning! We are a remote-first company with employees all over the world and are proud to be named a Best Place to Work. Come join our team of All-Stars!
About the role
The Senior Director, Developer Relations is responsible for attracting and engaging both new and existing users of our open source community, users of our paid products, and understands the important relationship between the two. You will be responsible for managing and building a team of technical developer advocates, community builders and maintainers, program owners and technical content specialists. You’ll lead and grow a globally distributed organization focusing on the experience of developers using our products to solve problems, gain insights, and build fantastic data-driven applications.

As a Senior Director, Developer Relations at Starburst you will:

• You will be responsible for our Developer Relations strategy with a primary focus on our user community, encompassing our forums, user groups, and developer programs.
• Lead the strategy, team, programs and systems to expand the Trino community, both users and contributors.
• Define the strategy for our user & developer community and forums and measure its activity and engagement.
• Grow active contributors, users and engagement.
• Develop the strategy to increase monthly code contributors and contributions.
• Build out key community programs such as open-source, education, meetups, startups, etc.
• Develop the plan to attract and retain code contributors to hit our contribution goals.
• Develop technical content focussed on users Trino + Galaxy adoption. Ensure that content is relevant to our open source users and align our Galaxy product to Trino. 

Some of the things we look for:

• At least 8 years of experience leading Developer Relations teams.
• 15 or more years of proven experience in software development or a related field, ideally with a special emphasis in databases, distributed systems, and cloud technologies.
• A degree in computer science, computer engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience using Trino is a bonus.
• Deep experience in developer advocacy and community building.
• Proven leadership experience, with an emphasis on people leadership, building teams to scale, and engaging global and local stakeholders.
• Experience building trusted relationships with executive sponsors and end users.
• You were a full-time developer in a previous life, but you prefer to work with the developer community to improve experience and support through education.
• You have experience leading a team in developer relations or community advocacy programs, preferably open source in nature.
• You are analytical and data driven in your approach to building and nurturing communities.
• Able to coordinate across many teams and perform in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Are passionate about attracting, teaching, and delighting developers at all levels of experience.
• Can think strategically, with long-term vision, while collaboratively building and executing plans that have short-term impact.
• Are comfortable with travel and speaking at meetups or events.
• Last but not least, and actually most importantly - you share our values, and work in accordance with those values.  

Where could this role be based?

• United States

Why build your career at Starburst?
We live by our three core company values: Character, Competence, and Ownership and are a team of top performers. We are each in the driver’s seat, shaping our organization and working together towards our common mission. We are solving exceptionally complex and meaningful challenges here and as we innovate, we each have the opportunity to build our careers alongside Starbursts’s growth.
We take care of our global workforce by making sure employees enjoy competitive salaries and attractive stock grants, remote-friendly work options, flexible paid time off, and more!
Starburst Data is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive place to work. Everyone is welcome at