Developer Relations Advocate

Our Purpose

At Fiddler we understand the implications of AI and the impact that it has on human lives. Our company was born with the mission of building trust into AI. The rise of Generative AI and Agents has unlocked generalized intelligence but also widened the risk aperture and made it harder to ensure that AI applications are working well. Fiddler enables organizations to get ahead of these issues by helping deploy trustworthy and transparent AI solutions.

Fiddler partners with AI-first organizations to help build a long-term framework for responsible AI practices which in turn builds trust with their user base. AI Engineers Data Science and business teams use Fiddler AI to monitor evaluate secure analyze and improve their AI solutions to drive better outcomes. Our platform enables engineering teams and business stakeholders alike to understand the what why and how behind AI outcomes.

Our Founders

Fiddler AI is founded by Krishna Gade (engineering leader at Facebook Pinterest Twitter and Microsoft) and Amit Paka (product leader at Microsoft Samsung Paypal and two-time founder). We are backed by Insight Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lux Capital.

Why Join Us

Our team is motivated to help build trust into AI to enable society harness the power of AI. Joining us means you get to make an impact by ensuring that AI applications at production scale across industries have operational transparency and are an early-stage startup and have a rapidly growing team of intelligent and empathetic doers thinkers creators builders and everyone in between. The AI and ML industry has a rapid pace of innovation and the learning opportunities here are monumental. This is your chance to be a trailblazer.

Fiddler is recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI Observability and has received numerous accolades including: 2022 a16z Data50 list 2021 CB Insights AI 100 most promising startups 2020 WEF Technology Pioneer 2020 Forbes AI 50 most promising startups of 2020 and a 2019 Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise AI Governance and Ethical Response. By joining our brilliant (at least we think so) team you will help pave the way in the AI Observability space.

We are looking for a Developer Advocate to help shape how technical audiences understand evaluate and adopt Fiddlers platform for the AI Control Plane. This role sits at the intersection of technical storytelling community building and market education. You will create high-quality technical content build trusted relationships with developers and AI practitioners and represent the voice of the community. The ideal candidate is a strong technical communicator who can make complex AI infrastructure topics accessible credible and useful.

Were a small but mighty marketing team that punches well above our weight. Half of us are based in the Bay Area with a few teammates joining remotely from across the U.S. We move fast roll up our sleeves and believe no job is too big or too small when it comes to getting great work out the door. Open honest feedback is our superpower; its what keeps us connected creative and constantly improving.

Together we pull off standout campaigns memorable conferences and some of the sharpest decks youll ever see. Smart scrappy and tight-knit we take pride in making a big impact with everything we do.

• Educate. Be an industry thought leader and evangelist for the Fiddler AI Control Plane

• Speak. Represent Fiddler at conferences industry events and meetups

• Create. Build thought-provoking viral and fun content and conversations across podcasts videos blogs whitepapers social threads GitHub repos tutorials interactive tools lightweight apps and prototypes

• Nurture. Build relationships with be present and be engaging in online communities

• Connect. Speak directly with our users about their pain points and needs. Give demos as needed.

• Influence. Advocate for the needs of our community and bring their feedback back to the product and marketing teams

• Extend. Identify partnership opportunities with complementary projects and companies in the agentic AI ecosystem to broaden Fiddlers reach
  

• 5 years of relevant experience

• A builder who enjoys the public eye. Your background is either in software engineering product management technical product marketing solutions architecture or data science. You want to build a visible trusted presence for Fiddler in the community.

• A point of view that is respected. Your takes on AI observability and evaluations are genuinely your own. Youve built and shipped real things

• Relevancy & Taste. You want to build content that makes someone try a product. You understand what makes developers click star follow and share. Youre opinionated about craft clarity and structure

• An existing public body of work. Articles videos repos social posts and talks that demonstrate your ability to reach and engage a technical audience

• Comfortable with the ambiguity and pace of an early-stage startup

• Willingness to travel for conferences and industry events

• Strong collaboration skills with marketing product engineering and field teams.

• Hybrid ability to work from our Palo Alto office 2-3 days a week.
  

Bay Area NYC & Seattle $190000 - $245000 Equity & Benefits

Other Cities $140000 - $225000 Equity & Benefits

• Competitive pay equity

• Premium health dental & vision (100% premium coverage for employees)

• 401(k) plan

• Open PTO

• Monthly fitness reimbursement

• Paid parental leave

• Team and company events and offsites (this year was Las Vegas)

Palo Alto HQ Vibes

• Annual Caltrain pass

• Monthly in-office massages

• Fastrak reimbursement

• Lunch provided MonThurs

• Happy hours and ping pong tournaments

• Fully stocked snacks and drinks

The posted range represents the expected salary range for this job requisition and does not include any other potential components of the compensation package and perks previously outlined. Ultimately in determining pay well consider your experience leveling location and other job-related factors.

Fiddler is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require special accommodations in order to complete the interviews or perform job duties please inform the recruiter at the beginning of the process.

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Required Experience:

IC