Head of Developer Relations

Why Polar?

It's never been easier to build, ship and scale software.

But it's never been harder to monetize it.

We're obsessed over solving this to empower the future one-developer unicorns.

These unicorns will be rare but inevitable. Whether in 3, 5, or 10+ years, they also symbolize a broader shift already in motion and accelerating:

• Smaller & smaller teams with...

• Exponential revenue/employee growth

• Focusing fully on their core product and marketing. Delegating & automating everything else that's boilerplate – be it in their codebase or business operations.

Exceptional billing primitives, APIs, SDKs and abstractions are a crucial foundation, but not enough. They will need a full-fledged platform to oversee, manage and scale their business.

Turning their software into an international business in 6 lines of code.

Join our small, talented and engineering-led team across Europe to shape how future software businesses are built. We focus on shipping at high velocity to serve developers in unlocking their next stage with their business. Everything else is secondary.

Role & responsibilities

We’re hiring a Head of Developer Relations to build, lead, and scale our developer-facing efforts across community, content, advocacy, and ecosystem. You’ll be the voice of Polar.

• Define and execute our developer relations strategy. From community building to content, events, and partnerships.

• Create high-quality educational content: tutorials, guides, blog posts, talks, screencasts, and sample apps that showcase the magic of Polar.

• Build strong relationships with developers building with Polar and amplifying their stories

• Represent Polar at conferences, hackathons, and meetups. Speaking, mentoring, and evangelizing developer-first billing

• Work with engineering team to shape APIs, SDKs, and developer experience based on real-world needs

• Grow and nurture our contributor ecosystem across our open source repos

• Engage directly with our community on Discord, GitHub, and Twitter/X. listening deeply, answering questions, and turning feedback into product improvements

• Hire and manage a team long-term to scale successful efforts. We're hiring a Community Manager today that will report into you. Focusing on nurturing our existing & growing community while you spend more time on amplifying it externally.

What we're looking for

• You have a strong profile amongst developers already

• You're working on developer relations, advocacy or community already at a startup or scale-up

• Strong technical background: you’ve built apps, shipped side projects, and worked as a developer yourself

• World-class taste on what makes for an exceptional developer experience

• Excellent communicator. Clear, authentic, and engaging in writing, on stage, and in video

• Passionate about open source, developer tools, and empowering builders

• Comfortable operating in high-autonomy startup environments where you set direction and execute hands-on

• (Bonus) You’ve built and monetized side projects or run your own startup

How we hire

Our process is fully remote, and all communication happens via email, GitHub issues/PRs and/or video calls:

1. Application Review → Short intro call with Birk (Founder)

2. Assignment → Open source PR (Engineering) or case study

3. Review & interviews (2-3 video calls) to:

   • Meet future team

   • Review and discuss the assignment & feedback + technical questions

   • Meet Birk (Founder)

4. Reference Calls

5. Offer 🎉