About the Job: LaunchDarkly is looking for a Senior Developer Advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The developer community is deciding right now what the AI era of software looks like, and much of that conversation happens in person: meetups, demo nights, hackathons, and hallway conversations across the city. You'll own our Bay Area presence: which rooms we're in, how often we're there, and what we do with what we learn. That means being in those rooms consistently, as a genuine participant: building long-term relationships with the practitioners shaping how agentic software gets built, bringing their signal back to LaunchDarkly, and showing them, credibly and only when it's relevant, how runtime control changes what they can ship. It's a role for someone who would be going to these events anyway. Responsibilities: Show up consistently : attend Bay Area developer events several times a week (meetups, demo nights, hackathons, conferences), building real relationships with AI and platform engineers over months, not transactions over days Listen more than you talk : bring back structured signal on what practitioners are building, where they're stuck, and how they talk about agents, releases, and runtime control Demonstrate, don't pitch : build and show small, credible demos on AgentControl and the LaunchDarkly platform, and hold your own when the technical questions get hard Add to the conversation : write event recaps and practitioner-grade content that people in the community actually want to read, rather than broadcasting at them Earn the right to convene : over time, organize gatherings around problems developers actually have, not around LaunchDarkly as a brand Feed the team : route relationships, signal, and opportunities to the owners who can act on them, with enough context attached to act What Success Looks Like: LaunchDarkly has a consistent, welcome presence in the rooms where the AI developer conversation is happening, and you decided which rooms t
