Developer Relations (DevRel) Jobs: The Complete Guide

Developer Relations (DevRel) is an essential element of how you get developers to use your platform, toolkit, API, or service. But how do you find the right kind of DevRel folks for your company?
In this video I cover:
* The 3 different types of DevRel jobs
* What to look for in a great DevRel leader
* How to hire your first DevRel role...and then how to build a team
* Whether you should hire famous DevRel people
* An evaluation of how much domain experience is needed
* Where they should report into
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[@mitupanigrahi7564]

Your fundamentals are really strong 💪💪💪. I have never seen anyone explain devel in such an easy way. You are worth following.🙌🙌🙌

[@jonobacon]

Thanks for subbing! 😀

[@GabsFerreira]

Thanks for this video, Jono! Very informative, learned a lot.

[@jonobacon]

Thanks so much!

[@pablodevelop]

I want to make a huge thank you for this vídeo, I saw that I have the most part of the skills to be a DevRel, and thats going to be my next goal for my career, Im an Android developer, and also a community manager in a Development School, thanks again for the content! ❤

[@jonobacon]

Thanks, and best of luck with your DevRel career!

[@odedponcz9223]

Why not bring the developer evangelist first?

[@jonobacon]

I mention this in the video, but my concern with focusing on the evangelist first is that the company may not have built out an onboarding flow yet. If you do a bunch of outreach and then you don't have a flow set up up to retain that dev (via delivering lots of value to them), then the evangelism is less effective.
This is why I usually recommend folks build out the nurture first and then hire an evangelist...or bring in an evangelist who knows who to build that nurture first.