Head of Developer Experience

We're looking for a Head of Developer Experience to own how developers and agents become great at building on Convex. You'll set the strategy, hold the point of view, and lead the team behind it. The docs, the writing, the developer narrative, and the advocacy your team takes to the community all flow from one thing: a real understanding of the product and a clear opinion on how people should build on it.

Some weeks you'll go deep with the engineering team on something we just shipped and turn it into docs a developer, or the agent writing their code, can pick up easily. Other weeks you'll step back to decide what story we're telling developers this quarter, where the docs are falling short, and what your team should focus on next.

The best person for this is someone who's genuinely excited to move between all of it.

- Set the strategy and point of view for how developers and agents learn to be successful on Convex.

- Lead and grow the developer experience team, and build out documentation as a function over time.

- Own the Convex docs and the information architecture behind them, ensuring that Convex stays legible from a developer's first day to their most expert work, for humans and agents alike.

- Craft the writing and developer narrative that shape how people understand Convex, from our blog to the way we explain what we ship.

- Work closely with engineering and the founders to turn what we build into things people can learn from.

- You've written developer docs or technical content that real developers relied on, and you have the work to show for it.

- You've led a team before, ideally one doing developer-facing or content work, and know how to grow people and help them do their best work.

- You can code, or read it closely enough to keep every example honest.

- Genuine interest in how AI is changing the way software gets built, and a point of view on what developers and their agents need.

This is an attempt to outline some characteristics of people who tend to thrive at Convex. We have a high demand for deep thinking and clear communication, while also having the typical demands of a small startup.

Writing is the heart of this job. We're not looking for someone who can produce serviceable copy, but someone who can take something complicated and make it clear, with a structure that scans and a point of view that sticks. It's the rarest thing we're looking for and the hardest to fake.

The best developer content and the best developer experience both come from someone who has a clear idea of what good looks like and pushes for it. We want someone who can look at how developers build on Convex today, form a strong opinion about how they should, and then build the docs, the writing, and the team to make that real.

You don't have to be the strongest engineer in the room, but you do have to engage seriously with the technical material and earn the team's trust. Convex is genuinely deep, and hand-waving doesn't survive contact with a skeptical developer. It shouldn't survive contact with you first.

This is a leadership role, so a big part of the job is getting great work out of other people, not just producing it yourself. That means hiring well, giving people real ownership, developing their judgment, and caring more about what the team ships than what you could have written on your own. The best leaders we've worked with are the ones who make everyone around them better.

We have a bias toward doing fewer things better. A lot of this job is telling what actually matters apart from what's merely nice to have, pointing the team at the former, and shipping it rather than polishing forever. It's a startup, and knowing what to leave undone matters as much as knowing what to build.