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Introduction

Our ibm.com team designs, builds, writes, publishes, localizes, and optimizes our digital content to provide a productive web experience for all IBM constituencies. 

As a Developer Advocate within the ibm.com team, you’ll harness your skills to engage in the development of explainers and tutorials, which will focus on common technological use cases that can be solved for using not only IBM’s but also open source tools. Additionally, you will assist on and produce video content and podcasts relevant to the needs of our community.

Your role and responsibilities

Your role is to lead and build authoritative content focused on topics related to the Data and AI space to encourage and drive adoption. You should leverage internal product enablement, market and academic research, books, top articles and videos on search engines to inform your content. This in-depth research will allow you to identify content patterns and cross reference information across sources, enabling you to craft authoritative technical content on search engines. Your content should drive organic traffic outcomes to the IBM website as well as progress users further down the marketing funnel. We offer a dynamic blend of personal flexibility and a thriving in-office environment. This role requires three days of in-office presence per week, with two days for remote work.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Doctorate Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • Transform dense technical topics into engaging, informative and interesting educational materials

  • Enjoy self-driven learning on new technologies

  • Programming experience, particularly in Python, and are familiar with AI frameworks such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Jupyter notebooks and are familiar with model providers such as Hugging Face, Replicate and Ollama

  • Experience with Developer communications, like engineering blogs and writing newsletters

  • Able to work independently, with a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to teamwork. You have a volunteer spirit with a 'we succeed as a team' attitude.

Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Publicly available open-source contributions and/or technical writing samples that demonstrate high audience reach (e.g. articles that rank on page 1 of SERPs, published articles, etc.)
  • Enjoy public speaking at meetups, conferences, and internal events
  • You are an experienced writer and content creator
  • You have built the depth and breadth of skills to gain eminence and build a personal brand
  • Exposure to speaking at events and conferences
  • Experience with the Adobe Experience Manager a plus

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences


We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.


This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.