Dear Vercel Talent Acquisition team,
I am writing to apply for the Developer Advocate role you posted on your careers page. I have spent the last several years in developer relations, and I would be glad to bring that work to your team.
I took some time to read up on Vercel, and what stood out was your push on the Next.js App Router and the developer posts on edge functions. It looks like a good moment to join, and I am keen to put my developer relations experience to work as the team takes that on.
After reading the job description, I understand that your three critical needs for this role are creating technical content and demos, engaging and growing the developer community and carrying developer feedback back to product. Those decide whether a developer advocate hire works out, and I have real results behind each one.
On creating technical content and demos, my toolkit is technical writing, live demos and sample apps. As a Developer Advocate at Postman, I owned writing a tutorial series that became the top traffic driver to the docs. Beyond that, I built a set of starter templates developers now clone to get going in minutes.
For engaging and growing the developer community, I rely on conference talks, community management and office hours. During my time as a Developer Advocate at Postman, I handled growing a developer community from a few hundred to tens of thousands of active members.
On carrying developer feedback back to product, I bring developer feedback, issue triage and product partnership. As a Developer Advocate at Postman, I took on turning recurring community pain points into three roadmap items that shipped. Alongside that, I set up a feedback loop that put real developer signal in front of product every sprint.
I would welcome a chance to talk this through in an interview and show you where I fit. I would be glad to help your team ship and grow the community around it, right alongside them.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Yours sincerely,
Theo Script
theo.script@gmail.com