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Lead Developer Advocate

Shopify· Partnerships
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Hybrid (San Francisco)Full-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Lead Shopify's developer advocacy strategy in San Francisco, working with founders and engineers to help teams build on Shopify and power AI-enabled applications.

Responsibilities

  • Set the strategy: Prioritize target developers, use cases, and communities. Define how we reach them and help them build on Shopify.
  • Build relationships: Work with accelerators, investors, and developer platforms to meet teams early, understand what they’re building, and help them choose Shopify.
  • Grow the community: Run meetups, hackathons, workshops, and office hours. Share code, demos, and lessons in public, and keep momentum between events.
  • Build alongside developers: Pair with founders and engineers to integrate Shopify, clear technical blockers, and ship to production. Pull in Product, Engineering, or Partnerships when needed.
  • Improve the developer experience: Turn recurring work into reusable code, tools, and docs. Channel developer feedback to Product and Engineering to fix common problems.
  • Measure and scale: Track engagement and adoption, A/B test approaches, double down on what works, and recommend skills and hires as the program grows.

Qualifications

  • Experience building a developer advocacy, developer relations, or technical ecosystem program end to end—strategy through execution.
  • Hands-on engineering or solutions background: shipping software, integrating APIs, implementing auth, and debugging production issues.
  • Experience building with AI development tools, and the ability to learn unfamiliar codebases fast.
  • Credibility with developers: you pair well with founders and engineers and explain technical concepts clearly.
  • A track record of running developer events, building communities, and publishing useful technical content. You represent a platform well in person and online.
  • Bias for action and follow-through. You’re based in San Francisco and work with developers in person.

Skills

Required:Developer advocacy / developer relations strategyEngineering backgroundAI development tools
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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