Manager, Developer Advocacy (EMEA)

About this role

Lead Temporal’s Developer Advocacy function across EMEA, managing a distributed team while continuing to build demos, deliver talks, run workshops, and engage directly with customers. Balance community growth with strategic customer work, and connect developer feedback to product, documentation, and education improvements.

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 EMEA
• Prioritize community programs and customer engagement requests
• Partner with Marketing on regional conferences and meetups
• Create and localize talks, tutorials, blog posts, videos, sample apps, and livestreams
• Lead the EMEA DevDays customer engagement program
• Identify customer engineers who can become internal champions
• Track developer acquisition, product trials, and ongoing engagement
• Share regional developer and customer feedback with Product, Docs, and Education

What we're looking for

• Experience in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or technical community work
• People leadership experience or readiness to lead a team
• Strong hands-on technical ability to build demos and teach senior engineers
• Operational experience managing programs, intake, prioritization, and SLAs
• Ability to work cross-functionally and connect technical engagement to commercial impact
• Experience working across diverse cultures and coordinating distributed teams
• Passion for developer empowerment and authentic community building

Nice to have

• Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems
• Additional European languages