Developer Evangelist

Job Description

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, tracking your personal best mile on Strava, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps.

Mapbox is looking for a Developer Evangelist who will build and support developer relationships and grow the Mapbox developer community. This role reports to the Senior Developer Evangelist. We are looking for a creative, experienced evangelist who builds and communicates with enthusiasm, is strategically informed by data and customers, and committed to operational excellence and accountability.

What You'll Do

• Work with the Developer Relations team to cultivate a developer community that supports each other in learning how to use the Mapbox platform to power the navigation of people, packages and vehicles everywhere
• Identify developers to partner with us in the creation of content that will enable their peers (e.g., guest blogs, how-to videos, workshops, contributed articles, and social media)
• Develop and nurture key customer relationships
• Introduce and engage developers who have similar interests in the Mapbox platform, or related challenges that the platform addresses.
• Create engaging content, including technical talks, blog posts, demos, and videos that educate developers to use Mapbox.
• Support Mapbox product and engineering efforts by sharing what you learn while engaging with developers.
• Develop programs within Mapbox to enable our internal customers to share their work with the Mapbox community
• Monitor and cultivate contributions on external developer forums.
• Set strategic goals and monitor metrics of performance of evangelism activities relative to them.
• Participate in the development of our documentation site, API playgrounds, product demos, developer tools and libraries,, and other software that supports the Mapbox developer community

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 2+ years of evangelism/outreach experience in developer communities
• Experience in modern software development practices, with strong frontend web development skills (React, UI/UX implementation, Web Maps, Data Visualization, etc)
• Engaging technical communicator, with strong written and verbal skills to translate complex technical concepts into simple and intuitive communications.
• Experience giving talks and developing demos, webinars, videos, and other technical content.
• Meaningful social presence with engaged followers.
• Experience helping to grow developer relations functional teams.
• Skilled relationship builder with both technical and business oriented people, and ready to partner across the marketing organization.
• Ability to work on multiple technical platforms, from web APIs to geospatial technology and data to mobile SDKs.
• Great organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills, and proven track record in making data-driven decisions to continually optimize performance and determine future investment.
• Enthusiasm for the power of Mapbox to drive the future of navigation.

What We Value

In addition to our core values , which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high - performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Mapbox is an EEO Employer - Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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