Technical Director, Builder Relations
MongoDB
IndiaremotePosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Developer AdvocacyTechnical LeadAzureGCPEngineeringdesigningbuildingMongoDBdesignCloudAWSAI
Key highlights
- 10+ years of experience as a database expert
- 5+ years of experience managing and hiring technical teams
- Up to 60% travel required
- Remote work option in the India region
- Generous parental leave policy
- Ability to deliver live sessions to audiences of 40–400 developers
Role overview
We are looking for a Technical Director to join Builder Relations, leading our team of talented Advocates in APAC. As more developers choose MongoDB as their data platform, your responsibilities will include directly engaging with customers and the community to deliver meaningful experiences and inspiring content. You will empower developers—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to integrate advanced data and AI capabilities into their applications and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a highly technical team supporting regional customer and community engagement
- Grow as a recognized subject matter expert on document schema design, building on a deep understanding of core and AI MongoDB capabilities
- Deliver schema design review sessions to customer development teams to guide their design, architecture, and use of MongoDB in the context of their specific or potential workloads
- Deliver live developer enablement sessions to audiences of 40 to 400 developers
- Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and other teams to develop and scale effective enablement content for builders within strategic accounts
- Share and adapt our best practices for effective customer and community engagement in the region, track business impact, and report on feedback and insights your team is actively collecting
- Mentor other team members including the surrounding ecosystem of Solutions Architects and Marketing partners
- Empower developers—from startups to Fortune 500 companies—to integrate advanced data and AI capabilities into their applications and solutions
- Directly engage with customers and the community to deliver meaningful experiences and inspiring content
- Equip builders through hands‑on workshops, architectural reviews, and building relationships directly with customers, and at events and user groups
- Build with AI for productivity and explore AI‑native solutions
- Explain complex technical concepts in simple terms and connect with developers of various skill levels
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience as a database expert, designing database schemas and implementing highly performant and scalable database methods
- At least 5 years of experience as a people manager, managing and hiring technical teams of engineers or advocates
- 5 years (or the equivalent) consulting with development teams as a non‑member of the team
- Strong presentation skills, with the ability to lead technical sessions at public events and online
- Portfolio of code and content you've created, or led creation of, to enable developers and drive awareness
- Willingness to travel up to 60%
- Excellent public speaker, comfortable sitting across the table from architects or delivering live enablement sessions to technical audiences of 40 to 400
- Genuine passion for equipping other builders to be more productive and successful
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple terms and naturally connect and communicate with developers of various skill levels
Nice to have
- Additional experience in a customer‑facing role (such as solution architect), teaching, or related technical role where you’ve led or advised teams solving enterprise data challenges
- Familiarity with other data technologies and the ability to quickly become proficient in MongoDB
- Experience building with AI for productivity and exploring AI‑native solutions
Benefits
- Remote work possible in the India region
- Employee affinity groups
- Fertility assistance
- Generous parental leave policy
- Supportive and enriching culture focused on personal growth and business impact
- Accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process
- Equal‑opportunity employer
Additional details
- Our Builder Relations teams are distributed across the globe, with most members working remotely
- Check out our team’s content on YouTube, Dev, and Medium
- MongoDB is built for change, empowering customers and people to innovate at the speed of the market
- MongoDB’s unified data platform is the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market
- MongoDB Atlas is the only globally distributed, multi‑cloud data platform, available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure
- MongoDB has offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI‑native startups
- MongoDB’s Leadership Commitment guides how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win