Senior Manager, Enterprise Developer Advocacy

• About Us
• Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable
• help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox
• are building the team that will make that happen.
• Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
• Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking
• want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities
• want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
• Summary:
• We're looking for a Manager of Enterprise Developer Advocacy to lead our NAMER team of Enterprise Developer Advocates and own the execution of our enterprise- and customer-focused advocacy programs across the region.
• This is a player-coach role. You'll manage and develop a small team of senior advocates while staying close enough to the work to design curriculum, run a DevDay
• jump into a customer engagement yourself. Your mandate is to take the global strategy set by the Director and make it real in NAMER: high-quality DevDays, Enterprise Office Hours
• account engagements that deepen adoption inside our most important customers and turn engineers into champions.
• You'll be the connective tissue between our advocates and the field—partnering daily with Sales, Solutions Architects
• Developer Success so our technical engagements map to real pipeline and expansion opportunities
• protecting the authentic, non-salesy experience that makes developer advocacy work

What You'll Do

• Lead the NAMER Advocacy Team
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of Senior and Staff Developer Advocates across NAMER.
• Set clear expectations and priorities while giving advocates the autonomy to adapt to their accounts and developer audiences.
• Balance team load against incoming demand, owning prioritization when requests outstrip bandwidth.
• Own DevDays Delivery in NAMER
• Run the account engagement process end to end
• Work with Global DevDays Team Lead to ensure each DevDay is tailored to the customer's domain and use cases (AI agents, long-running workflows, CI/CD orchestration, legacy migration), spanning the standard, advanced
• engineering-leadership tracks.
• Drive champion identification and structured follow-up so engagements convert into durable adoption.
• Run Enterprise-Facing Programs
• Own NAMER's contribution to recurring programs like Enterprise Office Hours, coordinating with Developer Education, Marketing, and the webinar team.
• Build and maintain a reusable library of modules, labs, and decks your team can mix, match, and localize.
• Enterprise & Sales Alignment
• Partner closely with AEs, SAs, and Developer Success to align advocacy work with pipeline, expansion, and adoption goals in the region.
• Qualify and prioritize requests by ARR influence, opportunity stage, strategic logo value, and bandwidth.
• Run a tight feedback loop from the field back to Docs, Education, and Product to surface enterprise developer needs.
• Hands-On Contribution & Storytelling
• Stay technical—design and deliver sessions, build sample apps, and contribute enterprise-friendly content (patterns, integration guides, recaps, success stories).
• Establish yourself and your team as trusted technical voices inside enterprise accounts.
• What Success Looks Like:
• A motivated, well-supported NAMER Enterprise Dev Advocacy pod with clear priorities and healthy delivery capacity.
• DevDays and Office Hours that consistently hit their quality bar, surface new use cases that map to namespaces and revenue and influence new workloads and actions within accounts.
• Sales, SAs, and Dev Success in NAMER treat the Enterprise Dev Advocacy team as essential partners in driving adoption and expansion.
• Champions emerge inside target accounts at an accelerated rate, with clean handoffs into follow-up enablement and adoption plans.
• Regional execution feeds cleanly into the global DevRel strategy, with reporting that ties engagement to business outcomes

What You Bring

• Experience in developer advocacy, solutions engineering, developer education, or technical community work, ideally in enterprise SaaS or a developer-first company.
• People-leadership experience or a clear readiness to step into it; you can coach senior individual contributors while still doing the work yourself.
• Strong hands-on technical credibility: you can build, demo, and teach, and earn the respect of senior enterprise engineers.
• An operational, execution-first mindset: you can run a repeatable program, manage intake and prioritization, and keep commitments against an SLA.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with Sales, SAs, Dev Success, Product, and Marketing, and translating technical engagement into commercial impact.
• A genuine passion for empowering developers and creating authentic, high-trust community experiences, not sales pitches.
• Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or distributed systems (e.g., Temporal) is a strong plus

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $240,000 - $295,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
• Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location
• job level assessed during the interview process.
• Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
• U.S. Benefits
• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• International Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country
• are issued in partnership with Remote.com . Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals
• access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
• Travel
• Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites
• other meaningful moments that bring us together.
• Additional Perks
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
• Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status
• any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit
• business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
• Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity
• reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs
• activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
• We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.