Senior Developer Relations, Canton

About the role

The Marketing Team at OpenZeppelin drives awareness and adoption across every product and service we ship, from the flagship OpenZeppelin Contracts Libraries to open source development tooling like Relayers and Monitor and the new Financial Institutions Stack. Working hand-in-hand with Product, Design, Sales, and Open Source Engineering, the team owns messaging, go-to-market strategy, content, and events that position OpenZeppelin as the standard for blockchain development.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end developer adoption for OpenZeppelin's Canton stack, accountable for Contracts Library integrations and Reference Implementation deployments
• Create technical content (tutorials, guides, Daml examples, video walkthroughs) for each milestone release and maintain Canton documentation
• Run quarterly community sessions and provide hands-on coaching at Canton hackathons, conferences, and incubators (2–3 trips/year)
• Supply technical substance for co-marketing with partners like ChainSafe, and track adoption signals (integrations, forks, deployments) to report against program milestones

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, or a similar role, including demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a developer-adoption outcome (not just content or event execution)
• 1-3+ years of experience working in the blockchain industry, with a strong technical background
• A proven record of producing engaging, high-quality technical content across various channels, and of setting content and adoption strategy rather than only executing it
• Solidity/EVM fluency, which is the bridge for the Ethereum-native developers Canton is actively targeting

Qualifications

• You'll translate familiar EVM patterns into Canton's Daml-based, privacy-preserving model
• Experience delivering technical workshops, presentations, and live coding sessions at conferences and community events

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Daml, Canton, or the Digital Asset ecosystem (Splice, Canton SDK, CIP standards such as CIP-56, CIP-86, CIP-103, CIP-104)
• Experience with privacy-preserving or UTXO-based architectures (our LunarSwap work on Midnight solved many of the same challenges Canton developers face)
• Familiarity with the needs of financial institutions building on-chain (Canton's adoption is institution-led, e.g. DTCC bringing tokenizable assets to the network)
• Knowledge of Daml, or a strong functional-programming background (Haskell, Scala, OCaml, etc.) with a demonstrated ability to ramp fast on a new smart contract language
• Experience working with ecosystem partnerships or multi-stakeholder technical marketing initiatives
• Hands-on coding experience in other languages relevant to blockchain development (e.g., Rust, Typescript, etc.)

Benefits

• Company in-person gatherings in different locations around the world
• Flexible time off
• Paid parental leave
• One time work-from-home equipment stipend of up to $500 USD
• Medical insurance coverage
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Work with a global team in a fast-growing industry

Pay

OpenZeppelin offers competitive compensation packages tailored to individual performance and experience.

Schedule

This role is fully remote and flexible.