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2024-52576 -

Director, Developer Relations

Location(s): Mountain View, California
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Intuit is transforming into an open, trusted, and easy-to-build platform where we and other partners solve the most pressing customer problems and deliver awesome experiences. Our AI-driven expert platform strategy is driving strong momentum and accelerating innovation. Intuit is building platform capabilities to accelerate development velocity for internal and external consumption as part of this strategy.

The Development Services and Experiences (DevX) team at Intuit builds foundational capabilities that developers use to build and run Intuit’s flagship applications and ecosystems. We’re looking for an experienced marketing technologist who loves fostering developer communities and enjoys building and growing teams from the ground up. This leader will instill a sense of urgency and accountability and will also be able to create and articulate a strategic vision clearly and persuasively both to colleagues within the company and to external constituencies.

This leadership position will report to the VP of Product & Design, DevX, and will be responsible for the following areas:

  • Open Source

Intuit believes in open source as a consumer and contributor and actively participates in many open-source communities, including CNCF, Istio, GraphQL, Web, and Mobile ecosystems. You will be responsible for evangelism and liaising with the broader community ecosystem for Intuit’s open-source projects, coordinating with stakeholders to raise Intuit’s brand awareness and profile in these communities. You will also drive programs to encourage open source project creation and contribution.

  • Intuit Platform and InnerSource

Leveraging shared capabilities is a key part of the AI-driven platform strategy. As part of this strategy, you’ll create and foster development communities in web, mobile, cloud-native, AI/data, and operational excellence to amplify the capabilities through platform experiences and self-serve capabilities (docs, APIs, etc.) with InnerSource and open contribution model and best practices.

  • External Communities

You will be the Intuit champion for development communities outside of Intuit by participating in strategic public-facing opportunities around open source, internal, and API products and programs, including technology conferences, blogs, speaking engagements, partnerships, online forums, etc. You’ll create programs for engineers to pursue and participate in public-facing speaking, writing, etc., about open source, new technologies, or other identified and approved topics. You will also work with the development communities outside to evangelize Intuit’s API offerings and platform strategy, working with stakeholders across Intuit.

Qualifications

Must have:

  • 12+ years in product management, product marketing, development or solutions implementation, etc., responsible for enterprise and technical products. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience leading Developer Advocacy, Technical Learning, or Developer Marketing roles.
  • Experience defining, building, and bringing products, solutions, and SaaS services to market on public clouds (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
  • Excellent people management skills to build, inspire, and coach a high-performing team and lead effectively in a matrix organization.
  • Demonstrable competency in managing a multi-million dollar budget, establishing sourcing directions for the product division, and providing context for related decisions.
  • Ability to set a strong vision for the team and follow through to execution. Proficiency in making informed and swift decisions considering all key stakeholders (employees, customers, partners teams, etc.) and evidence of making successful trade-offs between short and long-term goals.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills - leading execution across cross-functional teams, influencing across organizations in small teams and larger group presentation formats.
  • Strong public speaking, presentation, and writing skills.
  • An undergraduate degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related technical discipline is required (equivalent professional experience will be considered).

 

Nice to have:

  • A good understanding of defining and building SaaS services and API-first products and creating solutions
  • Experience working in an Agile development setting and ability to drive backlog grooming and prioritization
  • Change management and project management experience, or experience working to coordinate activities with multiple stakeholders
  • Product development and technical background, either as an engineer or in a previous technical role with hands-on development experience or developing and presenting technical demos and collateral.
  • Proven experience defining the vision and inspiring teams to deliver innovations and impactful products.
  • Ability to work closely with developers as customers and partners, listening and taking a customer-focused approach to defining strategy and setting priorities, demonstrating a passion for the customer.
  • 4+ years of experience as a software developer or developer advocate and the ability to script or code to guide teams

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the vision and strategy for developer relations and provide product thought leadership in identifying community engagement and evangelism, understanding business goals, and defining roadmaps and KPIs
  • Grow and develop a high-performing, diverse team; attract, grow, and retain excellent talent
  • Work closely with product teams across Intuit to help articulate the value to achieve Intuit’s business objectives
  • Take a data-driven approach in prioritizing the programs and business needs, creating and communicating plans, and defining success metrics to deliver impactful business results
  • Evangelize and create broad awareness for the Intuit open-source projects, platform capabilities, and Intuit API products and offerings.
  • Seamlessly integrate developer relations and evangelism into the product development cycle by fostering an ecosystem approach with technical talks, collateral, forums, and programs
  • Serve as an evangelist internally and bring external perspectives to how Intuit builds highly scalable, reliable, secure, compliant, reliable, and high-performance platform capabilities
  • Actively participate in the open-source and internal communities and projects through talks, blogs, and online forums and be a visible spokesperson in the industry
  • Be part of the extended product team to contribute across the Intuit platform
  • Be customer-obsessed, acting as the voice of developers

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $$259,500 - $351,000. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

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"At Intuit, we have the unique opportunity to empower millions of communities around the world by helping small business owners, individuals, and the self-employed succeed and accomplish their dreams of prosperity. There’s nothing else like it."
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"I really felt drawn to Intuit because it's a place where I feel like I can make super meaningful impact on customers’ lives and their day-to-day. Finances are tricky and it’s emotional and stressful, and if I can help lift that burden off of someone, I feel like it’s worth it."
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