You’re the First DevRel at Your Company, Now What?

You're hired as the first Developer Relations employee at your company. You have many goals to achieve, but also have very few resources. What will you do?

We’ll talk about tips for success when starting your DevRel career, the challenges of the career change, and growing your team.

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1. You’re the First DevRel at Your Company, Now What?
2. About Me @DevWithTheHair
3. Jaime Lopez Jr @DevWithTheHair https://github.com/ DevWithTheHair
4. More Than Just Code http://MTJC.fm @DevWithTheHair
5. My Path to DevRel @DevWithTheHair
6. DevRelCon Tokyo 2019 https://www.devrelcon.net/tokyo/ @DevWithTheHair
7. First (and only) DevRel at the company @DevWithTheHair
8. Now what? (独_独;) @DevWithTheHair
9. Determine your developer community @DevWithTheHair
10. Examples → Consumer? → Enterprise? → Single platform? → Multiple platforms? → ...and more! @DevWithTheHair
11. Do you have facts and data? @DevWithTheHair
12. Do Things That Do Not Scale (sometimes) @DevWithTheHair
13. Things that do not scale 1) Meeting with other departments → Engineering → Product → Management 2) Meeting with customers @DevWithTheHair
14. Do Things That Scale (most of the time) @DevWithTheHair
15. Things that scale 1) Documentation → API Reference → Guides → Tutorials 2) Example code @DevWithTheHair
16. Big Challenges @DevWithTheHair
17. - Technical - Non-technical @DevWithTheHair
18. Technical: - Software development background ...but not in this topic @DevWithTheHair
19. Non-technical: - Trust other people - Influence vs Authority - Relationship building @DevWithTheHair
20. Result (๑˃ ̵ᴗ˂̵)و @DevWithTheHair
21. - Successful initiatives - Happy customers - Bigger team @DevWithTheHair
22. Learning Resources @DevWithTheHair
23. The Business Value of Developer Relations: How and Why Technical Communities Are Key To Your Success Mary Thengvall @DevWithTheHair
24. DevRel Collective https://devrelcollective.fun/ @DevWithTheHair
25. DevRelCon @DevWithTheHair
26. DevRel/Asia @DevWithTheHair
27. Jaime Lopez Jr @DevWithTheHair https://github.com/ DevWithTheHair
28. More Than Just Code http://MTJC.fm @DevWithTheHair
29. Thank You! @DevWithTheHair