1Password
Productive businesses use 1Password to secure employees at scale.
Director, Developer Relations
Location
United States
Posted
22 hours ago
Salary
$228K - $342K / year
Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglishOpen Source
Job Description
• Build and lead the Developer Relations team, hiring and mentoring Developer Advocates and technical engagement specialists.
• Drive the company-wide Developer Relations strategy, focusing on the adoption of 1Password’s developer tools (CLI, SDKs, SSH, developer environments).
• Create and maintain a feedback loop between the developer community and our internal Product and Engineering teams to improve our offerings.
• Oversee the creation of world-class technical content, including documentation, blogs, demos, and sample code that demonstrates security best practices.
• Represent 1Password in the global developer community, ensuring we are a trusted voice in conversations about security, privacy, and authentication.
• Establish metrics and reporting to measure the impact of DevRel activities on product adoption and community health.
• Partner with Marketing and Sales to translate developer love into business growth, without compromising the authenticity of the community relationship.
• Lead the response to community crises or technical incidents, partnering with Security and Comms to provide transparent, developer-centric updates.
Job Requirements
- Experience: 8+ years leading Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or Community programs, including experience with open source communities and technical platform adoption.
- Management Experience: 5+ years experience managing individual contributors, as well as experience managing other managers.
- Strategic Builder: Proven expertise in building DevRel strategies from the ground up, moving beyond "awareness" to driving tangible product adoption and developer success.
- Technical Fluency: You were a full-time developer in a previous life or have deep technical fluency in modern development workflows (CI/CD, SSH, authentication standards).
- Community Safety: Passion for fostering psychological safety and stability in complex, public-facing community environments.
- Security Focus (Strong Plus): Experience dealing with security-conscious developer communities or products (Identity, Auth, DevSecOps) is a strong plus.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with executives, legal counsel, and the public.
- Community Leadership: Experience facilitating sensitive and complex community situations with humility, empathy, judgment, tact, and humor.
Benefits
- immediate participation in 1Password's benefits program (health, dental, 401k and many others)
- utilization of our generous paid time off
- an equity grant
- participation in our incentive programs
