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We help developer tools companies make their most critical hires across Developer Relations, Developer Marketing, and Developer Community. These are often founding or first-of-their-kind roles—responsible for shaping how developers discover, adopt, and advocate for a product. By focusing on these hires early, we help teams build momentum that scales
Focuses on technical education and product adoption. These roles ensure developers have the tools, documentation, and support they need to build successfully.
Focuses on the unqiue strategies and playbooks to capture a developer's attention without them feeling like they are being sold to.
Focuses on the spaces where your users interact. This role facilitates peer-to-peer support and keeps the human connection alive within your technical user base.
Developer relations, developer marketing, and developer communities are small, highly connected worlds where reputation travels fast and trust matters. That’s why we focus on relationships first. Staying active in communities, leaning on trusted referrals, and having ongoing conversations with people who are already shaping these ecosystems. When needed, we add targeted sourcing to reach specific profiles, but the foundation is always the same: who do we know already > who do they know > who can we source
We find candidates through global communities
We find candidates through our close network of mutual connections
We find candidates through headhunting on every platform
A pipeline that is built on active community referrals and long-standing industry relationships, connecting you with talent that isn't looking at job boards or replying to cold messages.
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Average placement
Candidates pass probation
Our reputation is built on the word-of-mouth of founders and technical leadership who have been in the trenches. We don't just fill roles; we become a trusted extension of the founding team, helping the industry's most ambitious companies scale.
Working with DevRel Talent was a game-changer for Kilo Code. They built our hiring engine and process from scratch, then executed at “Kilo Speed” every step of the way. From DevRel and Engineering to Marketing and Support, they made over 10 key hires for us. If you're building a dev tools company, they are the only hiring partner you need.
"The team at DevRel Talent are proactive, they quickly adapted to our hiring workflow. They were able to source quality candidates for a diverse set of roles, allowing us to have a higher-quality applicant pool"
“It was great working with DevRel Talent. Not only did we quickly secure a Developer Relations person in our industry, a tough role to find, it was easy to work with them. Highly recommend working with them!"
“DevRel Talent is fantastic in understanding needs the needs of your company. They’re not just a recruiting firm – they’re a partner to your success, because they can give you the best advice that goes beyond hiring the right candidates.”
“Owen is very results-driven and he understands his customers. As a result, his suggested candidates are of very high quality. All of the interviews with Owen's candidates yielded promising results.”
"Working with DevRel Talent was a smooth and efficient experience—they quickly understood what we needed and introduced us to top-tier candidates. We were particularly impressed with the speed of the process"
“I found working with DevRel Talent to be a pleasure. They kept us updated throughout the process, managed our expectations, and provided data on the state of the market to better inform our strategy.”
"The team at DevRel Talent are proactive, they quickly adapted to our hiring workflow. They were able to source quality candidates for a diverse set of roles, allowing us to have a higher-quality applicant pool"
“It was great working with DevRel Talent. Not only did we quickly secure a Developer Relations person in our industry, a tough role to find, it was easy to work with them. Highly recommend working with them!"
“DevRel Talent is fantastic in understanding needs the needs of your company. They’re not just a recruiting firm – they’re a partner to your success, because they can give you the best advice that goes beyond hiring the right candidates.”
“Owen is very results-driven and he understands his customers. As a result, his suggested candidates are of very high quality. All of the interviews with Owen's candidates yielded promising results.”
"Working with DevRel Talent was a smooth and efficient experience—they quickly understood what we needed and introduced us to top-tier candidates. We were particularly impressed with the speed of the process"
“I found working with DevRel Talent to be a pleasure. They kept us updated throughout the process, managed our expectations, and provided data on the state of the market to better inform our strategy.”
When the founder of Gitlab wanted to build a new Agentic AI company from scratch, he called DevRel Talent, and we answered. We spent the last 12 months supporting Kilo Code to build out their technical functions and hiring engine from scratch. In that time Kilo Code has scaled to 35 employees, 1.5 million downloads, no.1 on Open Router, 3x Product hunt features, 12 new features and a platform that developers love.