Staff Developer Relations Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of work experience in a technical role (e.g., software engineering, solutions consultant, etc.) or equivalent technical experience.
- 7 years of experience work on Cloud technologies.
- 5 years of experience with direct people management in a technical team/organization.
- 5 years of experience coding in one or more general purpose coding languages.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience leading and coordinating across multiple groups and teams on a single effort critical to a product area.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool development.
About the job
Passionate people are everywhere at Google. In Developer Relations, we get excited to collaborate and connect with the communities that love technology as much as we do. Part community manager and part developer advocate, Developer Programs Engineers collaborate with developers at conferences and online, and advocate for developers interests internally at Google. Not afraid to be hands-on, you write sample code and client libraries as well as participate in developer forums and support queues to troubleshoot and debug coding problems developers encounter. Internally, you work with product engineering teams improve our products by conveying feedback from developers, reviewing API designs and testing new features. Chrome, Android, App Engine, HTML5 as well as our core Google Apps and Ads APIs are just some of the platforms you promote and support.
Drawing on your leadership and technical expertise, you drive how applications work across multiple platforms and industries as you grow our community of developers. You magnify the impact of Google's technology as you helps 3rd parties to work together.
You will lead a team of practitioners that empathize deeply with external technical communities, and advocate on their behalf to the Google Cloud Product and Engineering teams, ensuring that our products are built to meet the community's needs and that they provide the best possible user and developer experiences. You will work to raise awareness of Cloud technologies and methodologies within our technical communities through enablement and inspiration, and you will drive strategy around Google Developer Relations efforts for specific communities and products.
Responsibilities
- Assist in technical communities as a practitioner having, or developing, deep understanding of that community’s needs.
- Represent the needs of relevant technical communities throughout the entire product lifecycle - including input on design discussions, customer zero testing, launch, post-launch updates.
- Work with Product and Engineering teams to define product strategies and to craft narratives around new products and features.
- Build and foster an external ‘community ecosystem’ of influencers, meetups, experts that amplify our messages and extend our reach.
- Advocate for your community internally and direct Google Cloud product strategy by working with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Engagement, Go-To Market and other cross-functional teams.
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