Lead Developer Advocate

Help make Shopify the commerce layer for AI applications. Based in San Francisco, you’ll lead our developer advocacy strategy and work directly with founders and engineers to put it into practice. You’ll build relationships, grow the developer community and help teams build and launch products powered by Shopify.

What you’ll do

• 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.

What you’ll bring

• 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.

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About the discipline

Partnerships at Shopify

Every discipline at Shopify works close to real merchant problems. You'll join a team that owns meaningful scope, ships to a high bar, and helps millions of entrepreneurs start, run, and scale their businesses.

Growth and rewards

Mastery-matched compensation.

~Mastery

• At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow.
• Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review.
• Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it.
• Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

Total Rewards

• With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix.
• Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change.
• Buying a house?
• Want more skin in the game?
• Just experimenting?
• It’s your call.
• * Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type.
• Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.
• Built for real life

Room for the rest of your life.

Flexible work, remote by design

• A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.
• If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

Your setup

• Your battlestation is your home base.
• Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.
• You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em.
• Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country.
• If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance.
• We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

Family support

• We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.
• Applying to work here

Show us your craft.

• Read the candidate guide
• The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human.
• What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference.
• Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.
• We’re looking for world-class crafters.
• Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field.
• Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.
• You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment.
• Show us what you do best, and how you do it.
• Shopify’s bar is high.
• Let your skills do the talking.
• Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude.
• Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.
• Pssst.
• Extraordinary technical work speaks for itself.Skip the resume.
• Show us what you’ve built instead.
• Take the /alt path