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About the Role
Lead Weave Intelligence and own the intellectual agenda for Platform Engineering, shaping the industry's discourse on platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and agentic software development. This role involves defining research agendas, editorial calendars, and leading a content team to produce high-impact publications.
Responsibilities
- Own the house thesis on platform engineering, PE++, and the agentic enterprise, ensuring it remains ahead of the market.
- Run a quarterly theme calendar to align content, events, and sales messaging.
- Set the strategy for content, balancing net-new thought leadership with rapid-response analysis.
- Lead the Weave Intelligence analyst practice, including research agenda, methodology, and editorial ownership of key reports.
- Uphold the firewall policy, ensuring sponsor contributions do not influence conclusions.
- Publish research regularly under your own byline and represent Weave at industry events.
- Conduct vendor and enterprise briefings to inform the reference architecture and research.
- Lead and develop the content team, including content PM, narratives/QA lead, and video producer.
- Build relationships with other media houses, analyst firms, and independent voices for collaborative research.
- Collaborate with founders on public positioning to amplify key company ideas.
Requirements
- 6+ years in roles focused on understanding technology markets and providing market insights (e.g., industry analyst, lead technical writer, content/product marketing, developer advocacy).
- Deep expertise in platform engineering, developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, or AI adoption in software development.
- A portfolio of published work under your own name.
- Strong narrative judgment, distinguishing topics from theses and identifying timely, impactful subjects.
- Demonstrated editorial rigor, including experience with methodology, sourcing, and fact-checking.
- Experience leading and developing teams of writers, researchers, or producers.
- Comfort with public speaking, media appearances, and vendor briefings.
- Operating discipline, including managing calendars, standards, and consistent output.
- Exceptional written and spoken English.
- Willingness to travel a few times per year for events and offsites.
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- Developer Tooling
- Cloud Infrastructure
- AI in Software Development
- Market Analysis
- Content Strategy
- Editorial Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Public Speaking
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years
About the Company
- Platform Engineering (platformengineering.org) is the largest community for platform engineers, hosting major conferences and producing extensive content including a university, newsletter, YouTube channel, and research arm (Weave Intelligence).
- Weave Intelligence provides market analysis, including the State of Platform Engineering report and market guides.
- The company is defining the platform engineering discipline and the agentic enterprise.
- Offers direct access to industry leaders and a large, trusting community.
- Provides an environment where individual judgment directly influences industry-facing content.