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Head of Developer Relations

Exa· Marketing
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San Francisco, California$200k - $320kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Head of Developer Relations responsible for building Exa’s developer ecosystem, community, and strategic integrations to position Exa as the default search layer for developers. In-person, SF HQ.

Responsibilities

  • Own how Exa shows up in the developer world: community spaces, hackathons, meetups, conference talks, open source presence, and day-to-day usefulness to developers in public.
  • Own the technical partnerships that put Exa inside the tools developers already use: agent frameworks, orchestration libraries, IDEs and coding agents, and platform integrations, from first conversation through shipped integrations.
  • Own the programs that turn users into advocates: champions, ambassadors, community contributors, and developers who build impressive things on Exa and get amplified for it.
  • Own reference applications, demos, workshops, and technical talks, collaborating with Technical PMM for content.
  • Hire, lead, and set the bar for a growing DevRel team and ensure they ship without you in the room.
  • Own the developer feedback loop: onboarding drop-off, API ergonomics, documentation gaps, and other friction points; ensure fixes are shipped.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years across developer relations, developer marketing, or engineering with a substantial public presence, including time at a company selling an API or developer platform.
  • Strong communication craft to developers: talks, workshops, streams, or writing with demonstrable live demos.
  • Engineering credibility with the AI stack; ability to discuss LLMs, agents, and retrieval with engineers.
  • Experience building community from an early stage.
  • Experience driving ecosystem or integration partnerships to shipped code with partner engineering teams.
  • Experience hiring or mentoring DevRel talent and a point of view on high quality vs. mediocre results.
  • Judgment about measurement and value creation in DevRel.

Skills

Required:Developer relations strategy and program leadershipPublic speaking and technical storytellingEngineering credibility in AI stackEcosystem and partnerships managementTeam building and mentorship

Benefits

  • Health and wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a monthly wellness benefit and a monthly commuter benefit for SF team.
  • Fertility and family planning: Egg freezing reimbursement up to $15,000 lifetime, plus 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • Life at Exa: Daily meals, stocked office, snacks, coffee, health supplements, fresh bread, milk tea deliveries, monthly picnics and celebrations.
  • Visa sponsorship: Visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Web search rebuilt for LLMs

Exa is a search engine built for AIs. We enable developers to filter the internet's content with complex queries in order to bring the world's knowledge into their AI apps.

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