Manager, Developer Advocacy (APJ)

About this role

Lead Temporal’s Developer Advocacy team across APJ, balancing developer community growth with engagement at major customer accounts. The role combines people management with hands-on technical advocacy, including talks, workshops, content creation, and customer programs.

About the company

Temporal is a durable execution platform for running reliable workflows and long-running business processes. It helps engineering teams build fault-tolerant applications without custom state machines.

The team

Developer Relations

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What you'll do

• Hire, coach, and support Developer Advocates across APJ.
• Balance community programs and customer requests, prioritizing by deal stage, size, and strategic value.
• Plan regional conferences, meetups, and developer community engagement with Marketing.
• Create and adapt technical content, including talks, tutorials, blogs, videos, sample apps, and livestreams.
• Lead APJ DevDays customer engagements and identify potential customer champions.
• Track developer adoption and retention, and relay regional feedback to Docs, Education, and Product.

What we're looking for

• Experience in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or community work.
• Technical depth to build demos, give talks, and engage with experienced engineers.
• People management experience or readiness to step into management.
• Strong program organization, prioritization, and follow-through.
• Experience collaborating across Marketing, Sales, Solutions Architecture, Developer Success, and Product.
• Experience working across APJ cultures and markets.

Nice to have

• Experience with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems.
• Experience with Temporal.
• Experience managing a team across multiple time zones.

Benefits

• Equity