Senior Developer Relations and Community Manager - Brave Search API at Brave

<h2><strong>Senior Developer Relations and Community Manager - Brave Search API</strong></h2> <p><strong>Location:</strong> Remote (USA and Europe)</p> <p><strong>Employment Type:</strong> Full-time</p> <h2>About Brave</h2> <p>Brave is building the independent search infrastructure for the AI era.</p> <p>While others wrap Bing or Google APIs, we own our own global web index. This allows us to offer what Big Tech cannot: Zero-Data-Retention (ZDR) guarantees, unbiased ranking, and total sovereignty.</p> <p>Our Search API is currently powering the next generation of LLMs, RAG pipelines, and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.). We are looking for a hybrid Product Marketer and Developer Advocate to own the GTM strategy for this platform.</p> <p>You will bridge the gap between our engineering team and the developer market. You will not just market the product; you will demonstrate how to build with it.</p> <h2>Role Overview</h2> <p>This is not a marketing role. We don't need fluffy adjectives; we need technical truth. You will sit at the intersection Developer Community Relations and Product Strategy.</p> <p>You will bridge the gap between our engineering team and the developer market. You will not just market the product; you will demonstrate how to build with it.</p> <h2>Key Responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Developer Adoption and Enablement: </strong>Drive developer adoption of the Brave Search API by making it easy to get started and succeed. Own onboarding resources that reduce friction from first API call to production use.</li> <li><strong>Technical Content and Education: </strong>Create high-quality technical content including tutorials, sample applications, reference architectures, and interactive notebooks. Demonstrate real-world use cases across LLM, RAG, and agentic workflows.</li> <li><strong>Documentation and Developer Experience: </strong>Treat documentation as a core product surface. Continuously improve clarity, usability, and completeness to optimize “time to first successful API call” and overall developer experience.</li> <li><strong>Ecosystem and Integrations: </strong>Expand Brave’s presence across the AI developer ecosystem by building and supporting integrations with key frameworks and platforms (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK). Ensure Brave is a first-class option in developer workflows.</li> <li><strong>Community Engagement: </strong>Build and engage with the developer community across channels such as GitHub, X, Discord, and forums. Answer questions, surface use cases, and establish Brave as a trusted solution for AI builders.</li> <li><strong>Product Feedback and Market Insight: </strong>Act as “Customer Zero” by testing new features, identifying gaps, and channeling direct developer feedback to Product and Engineering. Provide insights on developer needs, friction points, and competitive dynamics.</li> <li><strong>Launch Support (Technical): </strong>Partner with Product Marketing to support launches by delivering the technical assets required for adoption, including demos, code samples, and documentation updates.</li> <li><strong>Developer Funnel Optimization: </strong>Improve conversion from signup to active usage by identifying friction points in onboarding, SDK usage, and implementation. Use data and feedback to increase activation and retention.</li> </ul> <h2>Requirements and Qualifications</h2> <ul> <li><strong>You are T-Shaped: </strong>You are likely a former engineer turned marketer, or a PMM who learned to code. You understand that developers hate "marketing," but love solutions.</li> <li><strong>Native Fluency in AI/Search: </strong>You know what RAG is. You understand the difference between lexical and semantic search. You know why context windows matter.</li> <li><strong>Developer Empathy: </strong>You’ve wrestled with bad APIs, poor documentation, and rate limits.</li> <li><strong>Proven Writing: </strong>You can write clear, concise copy for a landing page and technical copy for a whitepaper.</li> <li><strong>Technical Chops: </strong>You are comfortable reading/writing Python or JavaScript. You can fire up a terminal to test a cURL request.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Points:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience at "Developer Cult" companies (e.g., Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, HashiCorp, LangChain).</li> <li>Experience marketing data products or search infrastructure.</li> <li>An existing presence in the AI/LLM builder community.</li> </ul> <h2>Why Brave?</h2> <ul> <li>Real Tech, No Slideware: We aren't selling a wrapper. We have our own crawlers, index, and serving stack.</li> <li>David vs. Goliath: We are the only viable alternative to the Big Tech search monopoly. The market needs us to win.</li> <li>&nbsp;High Impact: You will be the primary voice for a product used by millions of users and thousands of developers.</li> <li>Privacy First: We prove that you don't need to harvest user data to build a world-class business.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <h2>What We Offer</h2> <ul> <li>Opportunity to drive developer growth for a cutting-edge API product in a high-growth company.</li> <li>Remote flexibility with a collaborative, results-oriented culture.</li> <li>Competitive salary, benefits, and professional development opportunities.</li> <li>Compensation in the United States is $150,000.00 to $200,000.00 DOE</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>