Founding Developer Relations Lead

About the role

This is a rare opportunity to build a Developer Relations function from the ground up within a fast‑growing crypto‑native infrastructure company. You will shape how developers and AI agents discover, understand, and integrate with next‑generation financial APIs, SDKs, and tooling, working at the intersection of engineering, product, and growth.

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute an end‑to‑end developer adoption strategy across APIs, SDKs, CLIs, wallets, and AI‑agent interfaces.
• Build and scale activation assets such as onboarding flows, quickstarts, reference implementations, and integration tooling.
• Drive adoption metrics including API usage, SDK installs, production deployments, GitHub engagement, and agent‑based interactions.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to ensure every release is developer‑ready, well‑documented, and integration‑optimized.
• Create technical content – documentation, demos, launch narratives, and storytelling that simplify complex infrastructure.
• Deliver presentations, keynotes, and live demos at conferences and developer events.
• Identify developer friction points, influence product direction, and advocate for ecosystem needs.
• Help define AI‑agent interactions with financial infrastructure and establish foundational processes, tooling, and culture for a world‑class Developer & Agent Interface organization.

Required profile

• Proven experience building and scaling developer adoption at a leading developer platform, cloud, fintech, or AI infrastructure company.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to read APIs, review integrations, and collaborate as a peer with engineering teams.
• Demonstrated success delivering measurable adoption outcomes beyond awareness.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills for technical audiences.
• Builder mindset with bias toward shipping, experimentation, and rapid iteration.

Required skills

• API design and integration
• SDK development
• CLI tooling
• Wallet integration
• AI‑agent interface design