Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate
Join LaunchDarkly as a Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate to educate engineers in enterprise accounts and build internal champions.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Requirements
- Experience
- 12+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly, the individual will focus on creating and executing educational technical sessions tailored for engineers within large enterprise accounts. This position requires a strong background in developer advocacy or solutions engineering, along with hands-on technical skills to engage effectively with senior engineers. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in building customer-facing technical programs and a deep understanding of enterprise software dynamics. The role is pivotal in establishing a new advocacy motion, emphasizing education over sales.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 2, 2026. Last confirmed on LaunchDarkly's careers page October 31, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$128,700).
- Starts above 19% of 97 comparable staff other roles in United States we track (median $173,000 across 38 companies).
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- LaunchDarkly lists $145,500–$235,400 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 12 years of relevant experience for this Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate role.
- What seniority level is this role?
- LaunchDarkly targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Enterprise Developer Advocate role at LaunchDarkly.
From the original posting
About the Job:
LaunchDarkly is looking for an Enterprise Developer Advocate to build a new motion from the ground up: education-first technical sessions inside our largest accounts. Most enterprise customers know LaunchDarkly for one thing. Inside those same companies are teams shipping AI features, running experiments, and managing risky releases who have never met us. You'll design and run sessions that teach those engineers something genuinely useful, build internal champions alongside our account teams, and surface expansion opportunities the field can act on. This starts as a pilot, and how it scales will be shaped by what you prove. It's a role for someone who wants to own a motion, not a queue.
Responsibilities:
- Build the motion: design the Enterprise Developer Advocacy program from pilot to repeatable practice, including session formats, account selection criteria, readouts, and measurement
- Run sessions inside target accounts: deliver education-first technical sessions (agents and AgentControl, safe rollouts, experimentation, runtime control) tailored to each account's stack and use cases
- Build champions with the field: partner with AEs, SEs, and CS to identify accounts, find and develop internal champions, and hand off what surfaces cleanly to the teams who should own it
- Keep it credible: protect the non-promotional, education-first nature of the sessions; this motion works because it isn't a sales pitch
- Prove it with evidence: instrument the pilot, produce session readouts, debrief with reps, and make the scale, adjust, or stop recommendation based on what the data shows
- Shape what comes next: as the motion proves out, define how it scales, including the playbook future advocates would run
Qualifications:
- A background spanning at least two of: developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, technical marketing
- Comfortable in enterprise rooms: you can teach a technical session to fifty engineers and handle hardball questions from a skeptical principal architect
- Hands-on technical credibility: you build, demo, and teach, and senior engineers take you seriously
- Strong operational instincts: you can run a repeatable program, prioritize incoming demand, and keep commitments to the field
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% of the time
- (Bonus) Experience with feature management, experimentation, observability, or agent orchestration tooling
- (Bonus) You've built a customer-facing technical program (workshops, DevDays, office hours) from scratch
- (Bonus) Deep enterprise software background: you understand how large engineering organizations make platform decisions
Pay:
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 5:
- Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $171,200 - $235,400**
- Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $154,100 - $211,860**
- Zone 3: All other US locations - $145,500 - $200,090**
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