--- title: 'Developer Onboarding & Activation Manager at PubNub' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/developer-onboarding-activation-manager-pubnub-poland-5yka6jram6ch' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Developer Onboarding & Activation Manager at PubNub - **Company:** PubNub - **Location:** Poland - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-04 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://www.pubnub.com/company/careers/?gh_jid=8326786 ## Job description Location: Poland – Remote Employment Type: Full-time, B2B Contract Compensation: PLN 12,000–18,000 net + VAT per month (B2B) ## About PubNub PubNub powers real-time interactive experiences that drive engagement, retention, and monetization. Our market-leading platform for real-time interactive apps enables customers to efficiently and effectively build, manage, and optimize engaging apps that captivate and delight users. Founded in 2012, PubNub is backed by notable investors like The Raine Group, Sapphire, Scale, Relay, Cisco, Bosch, Ericsson, and HPE. To date, over 2,000 companies worldwide, including Amazon, RingCentral, Gameloft, and DAZN, choose PubNub to build and enhance large-scale apps that launch quickly to engage, monetize, and retain users. At PubNub, you’ll enjoy the freedom of a remote-first environment paired with a collaborative culture designed to support your unique work style, so you can do your best work. ## About the Role We're looking for a Developer Onboarding & Activation Marketing Manager to improve how developers discover value in PubNub, from signing up and creating their first application to becoming active, paying customers. This is a hands-on, data-driven role focused on developer activation, product-led growth, and self-service conversion. You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, Growth, and Lifecycle Marketing to identify friction points, improve onboarding experiences, and run experiments that help developers succeed faster. Success means reducing time-to-value, improving activation and retention, and increasing the number of developers who progress from experimentation to meaningful product usage and paid adoption. ## Key Responsibilities - Own and optimise the developer onboarding journey, from signup and first API key through first successful integration and paid conversion. - Analyse developer journeys, conversion funnels, user behaviour, and drop-off points to identify opportunities for improvement. - Design, prioritise, and run experiments to improve onboarding completion, activation, and conversion rates. - Partner with Product and Engineering to improve quickstarts, documentation journeys, sample applications, and first-use experiences. - Develop onboarding campaigns, lifecycle communications, and contextual guidance that help developers reach their next milestone. - Explore AI-assisted onboarding experiences that make it easier for developers using tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to build with PubNub. - Improve self-service journeys related to product usage, pricing discovery, and conversion to paid plans. - Establish and track key metrics, including time-to-first-value, activation, developer engagement, and first-time paying customers. ## About You ## Minimum Requirements - Experience in product-led growth, developer activation, lifecycle marketing, growth marketing, or a closely related role. - Demonstrated experience improving onboarding, activation, or self-service conversion for a SaaS or developer-focused product. - Strong analytical skills, including funnel analysis, user segmentation, experimentation, and performance measurement. - Experience using product analytics and A/B testing to guide decisions. - Technical fluency and the ability to understand developer workflows, APIs, and integrations. - Experience partnering with Product and Engineering to turn insights into practical product or onboarding improvements. - Strong English communication skills and comfort working across distributed teams. ## Nice to Have - Experience with API-first or developer infrastructure products. - Familiarity with usage-based pricing and self-service monetisation. - Experience with product analytics and experimentation tools. - Knowledge of AI coding assistants, MCP, or AI-supported developer workflows. ## Why PubNub At PubNub, you'll help power real-time experiences used by millions around the world. What sets us apart is our people-first culture and strong sense of collaboration. Our team values the opportunity to contribute meaningfully, grow their skills, and help build innovative, high-impact technology. We offer competitive B2B compensation and the flexibility of a remote-first environment. We're committed to fostering collaboration, professional growth, and opportunities to make a meaningful impact. Ready to Make an Impact? If you're excited about simplifying the developer journey, running meaningful experiments, and helping more developers build successful applications, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the next generation of developer onboarding at PubNub. Information Accuracy Candidates are expected to provide accurate, complete, and truthful information throughout the application and hiring process. Any material misrepresentation or omission may affect employment eligibility. ## About PubNub ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: PubNub provides a secure, low-latency platform and APIs for building, managing, and optimizing real-time interactive experiences (chat, live updates, IoT, in-app interactivity) in any application. - **Entity Type**: Private (raised over $130M in funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also offices in London, UK; Katowice, Poland; Singapore) - **Founded**: 2012 (company website states 2012; Built In references operations “since 2010”) - **Founders**: Not publicly available in search results ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Real-time communication infrastructure, developer platform, IoT, in-app experiences - **Target customers**: B2B – developers, product teams, and enterprises across 40+ industries (gaming, sports/media, digital health, etc.) - **Mission**: “Make it easy to build scalable, real-time applications” by providing a secure, reliable, global platform so product teams can focus on value creation ## Products & Services - **PubNub Platform**: Core event-driven network (2000+ edge nodes, <30ms global latency, 99.999% SLA) - **In-App Messaging**: Pub/Sub with persistence, file sharing, third-party integrations, and moderation - **Presence**: Real-time awareness to monitor user activity and engagement - **Mobile Push Notifications**: Immediate updates via APNS and FCM - **Live Data Sync**: Sync app data across users and devices in real time - **Live Analytics & Decisioning (PubNub Illuminate)**: No-code tools for real-time analytics, decisioning, and automation - **AI Chat Moderation**: Block toxic/abusive messages in real time - **PubNub MCP Server**: AI-powered interaction with the PubNub environment for faster development - **SDKs & Integrations**: Wide-ranging SDKs for mobile, web, and IoT; 100+ integrations ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total funding >$130M (raised from multiple rounds) - **Notable Investors**: The Raine Group, Sapphire, Scale, Relay, Cisco, Bosch, Ericsson, HPE - **Growth Signals**: Over 2,000 customers including Amazon, RingCentral, Gameloft, DAZN; 800M+ devices reachable; 212M requests/min handled (sports/entertainment); global network covers 40+ industries; ~192 employees (Built In estimate) ## Competitive Advantages - **Global low-latency network**: <30ms average latency, 2000+ edge points, 99.999% SLA reliability - **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR – enterprise-grade out of the box - **Scalability**: From prototype to millions of concurrent users without additional fees - **Integrated AI capabilities**: AI moderation, MCP server, and no-code live decisioning tools - **Broad ecosystem**: SDKs for every major platform, 100+ integrations, and a large developer community ## Strategic Focus - Extending real-time interactivity with AI (MCP server, AI moderation, live analytics) - Expanding no-code/low-code capabilities (PubNub Illuminate) to reach product owners - Maintaining best-in-class reliability and latency as they scale across industries - Deepening partnerships with major tech firms (Cisco, Bosch, Ericsson, HPE) ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include “Bias for Action”, “Passion for Innovation”, “Recognize Excellence”, “Earn Customer Loyalty”, and “Point Positive” - **Remote/Hybrid**: Offices in San Francisco, London, Katowice, and Singapore; roles listed as “In-Office or Remote” with flexibility (Built In). Katowice office supports remote/hybrid. - **Perks & Benefits**: Health plans (majority of costs covered), dental, FSA, employee stock option plan (ESOP), flexible time off, monthly fitness allowance, generous parental and family medical leave, commuter benefits, free snacks, job training/conferences, personalized development tracks - **Engineering culture**: Hackathons, developer meetups, social space for connecting with the Bay Area developer community; emphasis on building and innovating with real-time tech - **Growth environment**: Opportunity to work on a platform used by global brands and scale from startup to enterprise ## Sources 1. [pubnub.com/company/careers/](https://www.pubnub.com/company/careers/) 2. [pubnub.com](https://www.pubnub.com/) 3. [pubnub.com/company/](https://www.pubnub.com/company/) 4. [linkedin.com/company/pubnub](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pubnub) 5. 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