✨ AI Insights & Summary
This is a compelling opportunity for a seasoned product leader to define and drive the future of developer experience at Pantheon, a leading WebOps platform. The role offers significant strategic ownership, allowing you to shape critical product areas like public APIs and AI-driven infrastructure, directly impacting how developers build and scale websites globally. If you thrive on synthesizing complex portfolios into cohesive strategies and deeply understand developer workflows, this position offers a chance to make a profound impact in a remote-forward, collaborative environment.
Head of Developer Experience - Pantheon
About Pantheon
Pantheon is a global leader in WebOps, empowering over 300,000 websites for organizations worldwide. Our platform enables thousands of developers and marketers to build, iterate, and scale WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js sites. We foster a vibrant, remote-forward culture driven by ownership, meaningful impact, and a commitment to shaping what's next for the web.
The Role
As the Head of Developer Experience, you will own a strategic product area encompassing key Pantheon differentiators such as Autopilot, Multidev, and Upstreams. You will define the overarching strategy for these products and spearhead expansion into high-impact areas including public APIs, MCP integrations, and agentic infrastructure. This role is highly collaborative, co-authoring strategy to empower developers and their teams to build, test, and deploy with speed and confidence.
What You Need to Succeed:
- Synthesize a diverse product portfolio into a cohesive strategy that multiplies developer productivity.
- Define the roadmap for emerging areas—public APIs, MCPs, agentic systems—where you’ll shape what’s possible.
- Understand developer workflows deeply: local development, collaboration, testing, CI/CD integration, and deployment.
- Gather research and competitive intelligence to identify high-leverage opportunities across the platform.
- Define success metrics that connect developer velocity and satisfaction to business outcomes.
- Communicate strategy and progress with clarity to engineering, product, and executive leadership.
What You Bring to the Table:
- 8+ years of industry experience, including 3+ years managing developer-facing products or platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a broad, complex product portfolio and unify disparate pieces into strategy.
- Deep understanding of developer workflows: Git, CI/CD, testing, collaboration, deployment, and infrastructure.
- Experience shipping integrations or platform APIs; familiarity with emerging technologies (AI agents, MCPs, agentic systems).
- Track record taking products from strategy through launch and iterative improvement.
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and navigate organizational complexity.
- Preferred: Experience at a developer platform (GitHub, GitLab, Vercel, Netlify, LaunchDarkly, etc.); hands-on knowledge of WordPress, Drupal, or modern frameworks.
What We Offer:
We offer a fantastic work environment powered by an amazing team, alongside the usual perks and benefits:
- Industry competitive compensation and equity plan.
- Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Sick Leave (PSL) and 11 Paid Company Holidays.
- Full medical coverage (Extended health care, dental, vision).
- Top-of-line equipment.
- In-office workspace (Vancouver, BC Canada) - Note: This role is remote-forward, with an option for in-office in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Monthly allowance for wellness, reading and access to LinkedIn Learning for continued development.
- Events and activities both team-based and company wide that inspire, educate and cultivate.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Pantheon is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. We make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities and comply with all relevant regulations. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation:
The Canadian base salary range for this position is 105,600- 132,000 CAD per year.