Manager, Developer Relations

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar's solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient . We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.

Why You Should Apply :

At Sonar, we're a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don't. Our solutions don't just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we're all about the mission : supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have :

Sonar is looking for an experienced and empathetic leader to build, mentor, and guide our Developer Advocacy and Content team. You will lead and inspire a talented team to connect with developers across a diverse range of channels—from the stages of major conferences and targeted technical videos to engaging live streams and high-impact tutorials. Step into a strategic role where your leadership will directly shape the success and market perception of Sonar's market-defining code quality and code security solutions. You will build and lead a team of developer advocates and developer content creators, acting as a central connector between the product team and the go-to-market team to directly drive the company's growth.

You will be instrumental in empowering your team and the entire organization to communicate authentically about our products with developers, maximizing our impact in the community. Your team's work will help developers write better, more secure code by translating the power of our technology—which leverages static code analysis, SCA, AI-powered code fixes, and secrets detection—into clear, compelling value for technical audiences.

What you will do daily :

• Lead the development and execution of a data-driven technical content strategy, guiding your team in creating insightful blog posts, authoritative whitepapers, practical how-to guides, and engaging video content to establish thought leadership and fuel demand generation.
• Define and guide your team's communication of compelling product positioning and messaging that clearly articulates the unique value of our code security solutions and differentiates them within the competitive DevSecOps market.
• Direct your team's engagement with the developer community through technical content (videos, how-to, tutorials, blogs) webinars, and events to build awareness, foster adoption, and gather critical feedback.
• Assist Product Marketing with the development and execution of comprehensive go-to-market strategies for new product features and launches, ensuring seamless cross-functional alignment.
• Collaborate intimately with product marketing, product management and development, sales engineers, and demand generation teams to plan and execute programs that drive adoption and revenue.
• Act as the voice of the technical customer and developer community internally, using market intelligence and feedback gathered by your team to influence product roadmap decisions and prioritization.
• Drive a deep, team-wide understanding of our target technical customers and the competitive landscape, translating insights from market research into actionable product and marketing strategies.
• Guide the creation of high-impact technical materials, including solution demonstrations, to empower our sales and solution engineering teams to effectively communicate the value of our solution.

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We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion :

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.

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