Platform Ecosystem Director

Every developer has a tab open on Stack Overflow.  

We are one of the most popular websites in the world - a community-based space focused on increasing productivity, decreasing cycle times, accelerating time to market, and protecting institutional knowledge. 

Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We embrace collaboration, transparency, and believe in leading with empathy; creating an environment where every Stacker knows they belong. We embrace that the unique contributions and points of view of all Stackers contribute to our success.

We are a Best Company to Work For, in addition to being recognized for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Compensation, and Best Company Outlook.

We are a remote-first company with Hiring HUBs based in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.

Role Overview

The Platform Ecosystem Director is a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the technical vision and adoption of Stack Overflow's enterprise platform, with a particular focus on Stack Internal, Stack Overflow for Agents, AI-powered knowledge solutions, and the broader developer ecosystem.

Operating as a senior individual contributor, this role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product, AI, Customer Success, Sales, and Strategic Partnerships. The Director partners with enterprise customers, strategic prospects, and internal product teams to influence platform strategy, validate emerging use cases, and guide the evolution of Stack Overflow's AI and knowledge platform.

This individual serves as a trusted technical advisor to both customers and executives, translating complex customer challenges into platform capabilities while helping define the long-term technical direction of the ecosystem.

What you’ll do

Platform & AI Strategy

• 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.

Executive Customer Engagement

• 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.

Ecosystem Leadership

• 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.

Technical Thought Leadership

• 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.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• 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.

What you’ll bring

• 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.

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What you’ll get in return:

• 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

Stack Overflow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and these pillars are at the heart of how we work together here at Stack. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. 

For individuals based in California, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.