Exa
Head of Developer Relations
$200K–$320K
San Francisco, California · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years; the posting does not specify an alternative.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates.
About the job
Build and lead Exa’s developer relations function, growing developer awareness, community, integrations, advocacy, and product feedback for its AI search API.
What you'll do
- Lead developer community and evangelism through events, hackathons, talks, open-source presence, and public engagement.
- Drive technical integrations with developer frameworks, tools, and platforms from initial discussions through launch and ongoing maintenance.
- Build and coach the DevRel team; create demos and education materials, develop developer advocates, and relay product friction to Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- 6+ years across developer relations, developer marketing, or engineering with a substantial public presence, including time at a company selling an API or developer platform.
- Demonstrated developer communication skills, such as talks, workshops, streams, or writing, and a live demo.
- Engineering credibility with the AI stack, including building with LLMs, agents, and retrieval.
- Experience building an early-stage community, shipping and maintaining ecosystem integrations, and hiring or mentoring DevRel talent.
Nice to have
- Open-source maintainer experience or meaningful contributions developers would recognize.
- Experience at a company that grew primarily through developer adoption, in the AI and agent developer community, or running hackathons or developer conferences at scale; professional software engineering experience is also a plus.
Pay
USD $200K – $320K base salary
Tools
LLMs, agents, retrieval
AI focus
Build developer adoption and integrations for Exa’s search engine for AI; demonstrate AI search capabilities and build with LLMs, agents, and retrieval.
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