VP Developer Experience

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About the Team

About the Role

The VP Developer Experience will lead a geographically dispersed team that serves as the central coordination hub for improving the end-to-end developer journey across our organization.

This is a crucial leadership position responsible for driving the necessary organizational transformation within the broader engineering organization.

Key areas of focus include:

• AI Tooling and Organizational Structure: Analyzing the impact of AI tooling across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on our organizational structure (e.g. single points of contact (SPOC) organizational layers token budgets).

• AI-First Process Adaptation: Reworking and adapting our SDLC processes to thrive in an AI-first environment.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Vision

• Develop comprehensive DevEx strategy: Create and execute a holistic developer experience roadmap that spans organizational boundaries and aligns with business objectives

• Establish organizational presence: Build the Developer Experience function from the ground up defining its role scope and value proposition across the organization

• Drive AI and automation integration: Lead the adoption of AI development tools intelligent automation techniques and end-to-end process optimization to systematically eliminate friction

• Champion data-driven decision making: Implement measurement frameworks and analytics to continuously assess and improve developer experience health

Organizational Assessment and Coordination

• Map existing DevEx landscape: Conduct comprehensive assessment to identify all current developer experience initiatives across application development design systems platform development CI/CD pipelines environments and other specialized teams

• Establish coordination framework: Create cross-functional collaboration processes to align existing teams and eliminate duplicated efforts

• Identify critical gaps: Analyze the complete developer journey from onboarding to production deployment to prioritize highest-impact improvement opportunities

• Build stakeholder relationships: Develop strong partnerships with engineering leadership product teams platform teams and other key stakeholders

Team Building and Execution

• Build and lead DevEx team: Recruit hire and develop a team of DevEx professionals including analysts coordinators and developer advocates

• Establish operating model: Create sustainable processes for ongoing gap analysis project coordination and continuous improvement

• Implement feedback systems: Design and deploy mechanisms for collecting analyzing and acting on developer feedback across all touchpoints

• Drive measurable outcomes: Lead initiatives to achieve specific targets including improved developer velocity reduced onboarding time and increased satisfaction scores

Standards and Best Practices

• Define DevEx standards: Establish organization-wide standards for developer tooling documentation and processes

• Create best practice frameworks: Develop and maintain guidelines for developer experience improvements across all teams

• Ensure consistency: Drive coherent user experience across different development tools and platforms

• Foster continuous improvement: Build culture of ongoing optimization and innovation in developer experience

About You

Key Qualifications

• Experience: 10 years of experience in software development developer advocacy or a similar technical leadership role with a significant portion focused on enterprise SaaS platforms. 5 years in a leadership/management capacity.

• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of SDK development and a broad range of programming languages and development tools. Familiarity with cloud platforms and CI/CD practices.

• Developer-Centric Mindset: A genuine passion for developers and a strong empathy for their needs and challenges. Proven ability to think like a developer.

• Strategic Thinker: Ability to develop and execute a long-term vision for developer experience aligning it with business objectives.

• Excellent Communicator: Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills. Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Leadership & Team Building: Proven ability to build mentor and motivate high-performing technical teams.

• Collaboration Skills: Strong interpersonal skills and a proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Data-Driven: Experience using data and metrics to measure success and drive decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or significantly contributing to a successful developer platform for an enterprise SaaS product.

• Active participation in developer communities and open-source projects.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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