Platform Ecosystem Director

Role Overview

• Define and influence the long-term technical strategy for Stack Internal and the company's AI-powered knowledge platform.
• Identify emerging trends in enterprise AI, developer productivity, knowledge management, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and enterprise search.
• Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to translate customer needs into scalable platform capabilities.
• Influence roadmap priorities through direct customer engagement and technical insight.
• Serve as a technical executive for strategic customer and prospect engagements.
• Advise enterprise architects, CTOs, platform teams, and AI leaders on knowledge architecture, AI adoption, governance, and developer experience.
• Lead technical discovery sessions, executive workshops, and architecture reviews.
• Represent Stack Overflow during executive briefings and customer advisory boards.
• Shape the technical ecosystem surrounding Stack Internal, including APIs, integrations, developer tooling, and partner technologies.
• Guide architectural patterns for integrating Stack Overflow into enterprise AI platforms and developer workflows.
• Collaborate with strategic technology partners to expand ecosystem capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for platform extensibility and ecosystem growth.
• Represent Stack Overflow externally through conference presentations, industry events, technical blogs, webinars, podcasts, and customer forums.
• Establish Stack Overflow as a thought leader in enterprise AI, knowledge management, and developer productivity.
• Mentor internal technical teams through architectural guidance and industry expertise.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, AI Research, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing to align technical strategy with customer outcomes.
• Help prioritize strategic investments by bringing customer insights directly into product planning.
• Drive alignment across multiple organizations without formal authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
• 10+ years of software engineering experience (or similar) with significant experience designing and delivering large-scale distributed systems
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale technical initiatives through influence rather than organizational authority
• Deep expertise in API platforms, cloud-native architectures, integration technologies, and developer platforms
• Experience collaborating with executive leadership on technical strategy
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Preferred
• Experience in Developer Relations, Field CTO, Chief Architect, or Technical Strategy roles.
• Experience with developer productivity platforms or knowledge management systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise collaboration ecosystems such as Microsoft 365, Atlassian, GitHub, Slack, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.
• Experience working with enterprise SaaS organizations.
• Experience representing products publicly through conferences or technical communities.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary
• Generous paid vacation
• Generous parental leave, family care leave, and unlimited sick days
• Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Home Internet stipend
• Professional allocation for your growth and development
• One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
• Company-paid access to Calm, Prosus Academy and Overdrive