Job Summary
We are seeking a passionate and technically skilled API Evangelist to drive awareness, adoption, and engagement of our APIs among developers, partners, and the broader tech community. As an API Evangelist, you will serve as a bridge between our engineering, product, and marketing teams, ensuring that developers have the resources, support, and inspiration to build with our APIs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Community Engagement & Advocacy: Actively engage with developer communities on platforms like GitHub, Stack Overflow, Twitter (X), Discord, and Reddit to promote our APIs and gather feedback.
• Content Creation: Develop technical blog posts, tutorials, documentation, and videos to educate developers on best practices and use cases.
• Public Speaking & Events: Represent the company at conferences, webinars, meetups, and hackathons, delivering talks and workshops to showcase our API capabilities.
• Developer Support & Feedback Loop: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to relay developer feedback, enhance API usability, and contribute to documentation improvements.
• Partnership Development: Work with third-party developers, startups, and enterprises to integrate our API into their products and solutions.
• Thought Leadership: Advocate for industry best practices, emerging API technologies, and trends to position the company as a leader in the API ecosystem.
• Growth & Adoption Strategies: Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to create API adoption strategies, including referral programs, community incentives, and open-source contributions.
Requirements & Qualifications:
• Proven experience in developer relations, API evangelism, or technical marketing.
• Strong technical background with experience in API development, RESTful services, GraphQL, Webhooks, or related technologies.
• Hands-on experience with API documentation tools like Postman, Swagger (OpenAPI), or GraphQL Playground.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a talent for breaking down complex technical concepts into easily understandable content.
• Active presence in developer communities and experience in public speaking or conference presentations.
• Familiarity with programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Go, or Java.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects or managing developer advocacy programs is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
• Experience working in SaaS, cloud computing, or API-driven businesses.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools, CI/CD pipelines, and API security best practices. • Experience organizing hackathons, developer workshops, or technical webinars.
• Strong in Go-To-Market strategies and API Monetization
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What We Do
Foxit is a leading software provider of fast, affordable and secure PDF solutions. Businesses and consumers increase productivity by using Foxit's cost effective products to securely work with PDF documents and forms. Foxit is the #1 pre-installed PDF software, shipped on one-third of all new Windows PCs, including those from HP®, Acer, and ASUS®.
Foxit's Software Development Kits (SDKs) help developers reduce costs and improve time to market by easily integrating industry leading PDF technology into application workflows. This technology shares the same underlying technology that powers Google's open-source PDFium project.
Winner of numerous awards, Foxit has over 650 million users and has sold to over 425,000 customers, ranging from SMBs to global enterprises, located in more than 200 countries. Since Foxit products are ISO 32000-1/PDF 1.7 standard compliant, they are compatible with your existing PDF documents and forms.
Foxit's Mission
Enabling people to create, collaborate, share, and use documents on any device.
Foxit's Vision
Foxit on every device.
To learn more about Foxit :
- Official Website: https://www.foxit.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foxitsoftware
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/foxitsoftware
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