Developer Advocate / Wizard
Job description
A junior developer relations role at Vana Foundation, acting as the face to developers and product managers building on UU API, PDPP and the protocol. The role combines developer marketing strategy, running builder programmes, testing developer products and community engagement.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Albania, Andorra, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda +9
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Set the developer marketing strategy and guide the marketing team's campaigns and content; decide what gets made and why.
- Run the Builder Incentives Programme and the programmes that get data connectors built, tested and maintained; in time, run the node operator network.
- Be the first user of every developer product and system; test them, find what is missing, and tell engineering what is required.
- Show people how to build data connectors, in writing, on video and live.
- Represent Vana in Discord, at events and online, and grow the number of builders who adopt and stay.
What we're looking for
- Zero to two years out of university, recent graduates welcome.
- A software engineering background: a computer science or engineering degree, or the equivalent in shipped work.
- A strong GitHub, with contributions to open-source projects you did not start.
- You love AI tools and build with them every day.
- Mission aligned: you care about who controls personal data and what AI is trained on, and it already shows in what you do.
- Outgoing, a clear communicator, comfortable on camera and on stage.
- Fluent, confident spoken and written English.
- Organised enough to run programmes with budgets, deadlines and many participants.
Nice to have
- A public presence beyond GitHub: X, YouTube, a newsletter or a community you are visible in.
- Shipped a data connector, browser extension or integration against a public API.
- Run a hackathon, meetup, student society or online community.
- Familiar with open standards and open-source governance.
- Multi-lingual is a bonus.
Benefits
- A salaried junior role, not commission.
- Work from anywhere.
- A direct line to the founders. You set how Vana shows up to builders.
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About Vana Foundation
The open network for user-owned data
Vana is the open network for user-owned data. Builders reach it through UU API, a tool developed by OpenDataLabs on the Vana Network, the developer gateway to the protocol. Vana is built on the Personal Data Portability Protocol (PDPP), an open standard hosted with the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust that underpins the way users permission their data across applications and services.
Mission
People decide where their data goes and who trains AI on it, and share in what it creates.
Key facts
- UU API is a tool developed by OpenDataLabs on the Vana Network, the developer gateway to the protocol.
- Vana is built on the Personal Data Portability Protocol (PDPP), an open standard hosted with the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust.