Director - Developer Relations in San Diego, CA at honor foundations

Date Posted: 1/14/2025

Job Snapshot

  • Employee Type:
    Full-Time
  • Location:
    San Diego, CA
  • Job Type:
  • Experience:
    Not Specified
  • Date Posted:
    1/14/2025

Job Description


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group, Sales, Business Development & Marketing Group > Business Development

General Summary:

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Developer Relations professional to join our team. In this role, you will be the bridge between our engineering team and the developer community. You will play a crucial role in building and nurturing relationships with developers, advocating for their needs, and ensuring they have the resources and support they need to succeed with our AI products and services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Community Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with developers through various channels, including social media, forums, and events.  Engage 1:1 as needed/appropriate.
  • Advocacy: Represent the voice of the developer community within the company, advocating for their needs and feedback to influence product development.
  • Content Creation: Lead the development and delivery of high-quality technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, videos, and documentation, with support from other teams and team members.  Content to support 1: many and 1: few engagement objectives.
  • Events and Workshops: Organize and participate in developer events, hackathons, webinars, and workshops to promote our AI technologies and engage with the developer community. 
  • Support: Develop a well-tuned process and team to deliver technical support and guidance to developers, helping them troubleshoot issues and optimize their use of our AI products.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with the engineering, product, and marketing teams to ensure a seamless developer experience and align strategic initiatives.
  • Outreach: Drive awareness and preference for our platform through targeted outreach to the developer community.
  • Developer Engagement: Foster engagement within the developer community and support the development of applications and AI agents.
  • Insight Sharing: Provide developer insights to internal teams to better inform platform development and deployment imperatives.
  • Business Development: Identify and pursue strategic partnerships and opportunities to expand the adoption of our AI Platform.

Qualifications:

  • Experience: Proven experience in a Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or similar role, serving the enterprise with AI on-premises and cloud solutions.
  • Technical Skills: Strong technical background with experience in AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++ is a plus.
  • Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a diverse audience.
  • Community Building: Demonstrated ability to build and nurture developer communities, both online and offline.
  • Content Creation: Experience creating technical content, including blog posts, tutorials, videos, and documentation.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot technical issues effectively.
  • Team Player: Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and contribute to a positive team culture.

Other Qualifications:

  • Minimum 10+ years of experience, in applicable fields with increasing levels of responsibility for solution deployment, market penetration, and cross-functional team leadership.
  • Experience developing novel business models, negotiating contracts and pricing/forecasting.
  • Demonstrated track record for securing design wins
  • Adept at building and delivering customer presentations
  • Deep technical understanding of enterprise cloud services and generative AI
  • Able to travel up to 30% of time for customer/market briefings
  • Relevant engineering, computer science BS/BA degree.  MBA or Masters Engineering preferred.

Anticipate travel up to 30% to engage strategic developer communities.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$198,400.00 - $297,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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