Most importantly, we're not looking for someone to bounce from event to event with a canned message. We want a developer advocate who can deeply understand our audience's needs, serve them authentically, and build lasting relationships. You'll play a critical role in helping new and prospective customers grasp our value and how to harness it. This vital work will be instrumental to Zep's broader success and growth.

This is a major career breakout opportunity: You'll be set up for success with mentorship and weekly guidance from our partnership with Community Leadership Core's Jono Bacon (former head of DevRel at Canonical & GitHub).

Typical activities for this role include:

• Passionately grow and empower the Zep community, enabling them to build amazing agentic applications

• Create compelling content that truly solves developer problems and showcases Zep's potential

• Conduct thoughtful competitive analysis to assess how we can always lead with powerful, engaged, thoughtful, and surprising advocacy and engagement

• Foster deep, authentic relationships within the community and industry, championing Zep to help individual users and customers deliver real value to their companies

• Embody and amplify Zep's unique voice and brand in all external interactions

• Be a thoughtful and compelling Zep representative at conferences, events, and in media

• Constantly challenge our assumptions, pushing us to deliver unique and valuable products

• Running powerful social media, events, and other outward-facing efforts that will grow our customer, community, and user base

• Occasional travel will be required for team meetings and to attend developer events

Experience with the following is required:

• 3+ years of experience in developer relations and advocacy

• Experience with working in AI, DevTools, or similar online communities

• 3+ years Python or TypeScript development experience in a software or sales engineering role

• Excellent public speaking, writing, blogging, and content development skills

• Navigating complex and sensitive community situations with humility, judgment, tact, and humor

• Working independently and autonomously, managing multiple competing priorities

Experience with any of the following preferred:

• LLM application development, including familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or Autogen.

• Existing network from a diverse set of communities and social media platforms.

• Media training and experience in communicating with journalists, bloggers, and other media on a range of technical topics.