Principal Developer Ecosystem Advocate, AI & Agentic Development

In this role, you will: 

Community & Ecosystem Engagement & Intelligence

• Build meaningful relationships with developers, community leaders, and ecosystem partners while actively participating in online and in-person technical communities.
• Support and grow community initiatives including champion programs, office hours, workshops, forums and technical engagement programs
• Identify opportunities to strengthen community participation and foster peer-to-peer engagement
• Serve as a trusted source of ecosystem intelligence for internal stakeholders
• Gather feedback from developers and technical communities, identify trends, adoption barriers and emerging opportunities and translate those insights into actionable recommendations for Product, Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams.
• Lead cross-functional customer, community, and ecosystem engagement initiatives in partnership with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success teams.
• Monitor evolving developer workflows, AI-assisted development trends and industry best practices

Customer Innovation & Technical Partnership

• Partner directly with customers and practitioners to explore, prototype, build, and implement solutions using Progress technologies.
• Collaborate on AI-powered applications, agentic workflows and modern full-stack development scenarios that demonstrate product value in real-world environments.
• Partner with customers to develop technical case studies, implementation stories, best practices, demos, and educational content that showcase real-world outcomes.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers navigate architecture decisions, implementation challenges, and emerging technology trends.

AI-Era Developer Experience & Discoverability

• Evaluate how products are represented across AI-assisted discovery, technical research and AI-powered development workflows.
• Partner with Product, Engineering and Marketing teams to improve discoverability, usability, and developer adoption.
• Identify gaps in technical education, onboarding experiences, documentation and community resources
• Support initiatives that improve the overall developer and practitioner experience

Technical Advocacy & Thought Leadership

• Create high-value technical content including code samples, demos, workshops, articles, videos, presentations, webinars and educational resources.
• Explain complex technical concepts (AI-powered development, agentic systems, and modern application architectures) in ways that are accessible to both technical and business audiences.
• Develop reusable demos, reference implementations, and best practices that help customers accelerate adoption and success.
• Represent Progress at conferences, community events, livestreams, webinars, podcasts and in developer programs.
• Transform customer engagements, technical learnings, and ecosystem trends into compelling stories, technical content, best practices, and thought leadership that educate and inspire both business and technical audiences. 
• Support strategic product launches and awareness initiatives through technical expertise, storytelling and community engagement.

Your background: 

• Strong hands-on experience designing and building full-stack applications using modern .NET and JavaScript frameworks, APIs, cloud services, and contemporary development practices.
• Experience designing, building, or implementing AI-powered applications, AI agents, agentic workflows, copilots or related modern application architectures.
• Experience working directly with customers, developers, or technical practitioners to design, prototype, implement, or troubleshoot software solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical practitioners and business stakeholders, adapting messaging to different audiences and levels of expertise.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to understand and communicate complex technical concepts
• Demonstrated ability to learn emerging technologies quickly and apply them in practical customer and community scenarios.
• Experience building relationships with technical audiences and communities
• Excellent communication, presentation and storytelling skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience gathering and synthesizing customer or community feedback into actionable insights
• Curiosity and a hunger to learn, experiment and engage
• 6+ years of experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, solutions engineering, technical marketing, product evangelism, community leadership, or related fields

Additionally, it would be beneficial if you have: 

• Experience working with developer tools, application development platforms, infrastructure technologies, AI-enabled products or enterprise software
• Familiarity with community-led growth and developer experience programs
• Experience creating technical content across multiple formats
• Understanding of AI-assisted development workflows and emerging technology trends
• Experience supporting product launches, beta programs, or developer engagement initiatives

If this sounds like you and fits your experience and career goals, we’d be happy to chat.   

What we offer in return is the opportunity to experience a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and also to enjoy:  

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan. Tuition Reimbursement program. Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance. 
• Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
• Flexible paid vacation time, paid day off for your birthday, and company holidays. A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health.