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# Member of DevRel Staff - Developer Advocate at Tessl

- **Company:** Tessl
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tesslcareers/66451803-8431-418a-8ee4-2b44a991ab2f/application

**Skills:** Coding, Software development, Integration building

> Tessl seeks a Developer Advocate to build with its AI-native development platform, create technical content, and engage deeply with the AI developer community through events and social channels.

## Job description

Tessl is a fast-growing Series A startup based in London, founded by Guy Podjarny, who previously founded Snyk. We’ve raised more than $100 million from world-class investors, including Index Ventures, Accel, GV and Boldstart. In 2025, Tessl ranked #2 in Sifted’s B2B SaaS Rising 100 and #20 in its AI 100.

We’re building the context layer for AI coding agents and a platform for AI-native software development. As an early member of the team, you’ll help shape how we build and scale a company operating at the forefront of AI and software development.

## OVERVIEW OF ROLE

We're looking for a Developer Advocate to lead Tessl's hands-on enablement on the ground in the US, with a focus on workshops and customers. Someone who lives and breathes agentic coding and can bring it into large organisations, helping their developers and their leaders understand what AI native development makes possible. This role pairs deep technical credibility with a commercial lens. You'll design and run workshops, deliver them on-site at customers, present at meetups and conferences, and support Tessl's commercial activities where needed. You'll be as comfortable in front of an enterprise engineering team as you are on a conference stage. You'll also bring a clear view of how change actually lands in big organisations. Adoption, rollout, inertia and pushback are all part of the work, and you'll have strategies to get past them.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and deliver workshops: Create compelling, hands-on workshops on AI native development with Tessl, and deliver them with confidence, including on-site at customers.
- Drive enterprise adoption: Apply agentic coding to large organisations. Think through rollout, inertia and pushback, and bring strategies that move teams from interest to real adoption.
- Support the commercial motion: Partner with the commercial team and support Tessl's customer-facing activities where needed, bringing a commercial lens to your technical work.
- Present widely: Speak at meetups and conferences, and be a credible, engaging voice for Tessl in the wider AI developer community.
- Content creation: Write articles, tutorials and guides, and produce videos that give developers practical, actionable insight into AI native development with Tessl.
- Build with Tessl: Stay a power user of the product, building enough with it to keep your workshops and customer guidance grounded in real practice.

## WHAT YOU'LL NEED

- Living and breathing agentic coding: You're deep in AI native development and you can translate it for an enterprise audience.
- Workshop design and delivery: You're very comfortable creating workshops and presenting them, with real experience delivering on-site at customers.
- A commercial lens: You understand the commercial side of customer engagements and you're comfortable supporting sales motions.
- An eye for adoption: You understand how large organisations actually change. You can read inertia and pushback and you know how to work past them through rollout and enablement.
- Strong presenter and communicator: You can write and speak clearly and engagingly about technical AI topics, from a customer workshop to a conference stage.
- Development skills: You're comfortable enough with code to build and hack on things yourself. You don't need to be a full-time engineer, but you ship.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Experience enabling large enterprise organisations
- Experience with developer training, technical enablement or solutions engineering
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving, early-stage startup environment

We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’re building at Tessl and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway!

Learn how we think and work

- [On Tessl, The AI Native Development Startup](https://www.tessl.io/blog/announcing-tessl-the-ai-native-development-startup)
- [Announcing skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills](https://tessl.io/blog/skills-are-software-and-they-need-a-lifecycle-introducing-skills-on-tessl/)
- [Podcast Episode: The End of Fragmented Agent Context, Guy Podjarny Tessl CEO](https://youtu.be/ntkM-hRblfo)

## About Tessl

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tessl provides a security, visibility, and governance platform for AI agent skills, enabling enterprise teams to manage, secure, and continuously improve skills across agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; total raised $125M)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (Kings Cross area)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Guy Podjarny (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer tools / AI infrastructure / Agent enablement
- **Target customers**: Enterprise engineering and platform teams, security leaders; B2B
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Skills are the new code. Treat them that way." – Tessl aims to turn chaotic, invisible skill sprawl into a governed, measurable system that scales agent adoption safely.

## Products & Services
- **Tessl Agent Enablement Platform**: The core SaaS platform that integrates with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini) to publish, version, security-scan, and govern skills. Features include a shared skill registry, policy enforcement, audit logs, eval-driven improvement dashboards, and three-layer visibility (published, project coverage, real activation).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $125M (Series A, as of 2024 per CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures, GV (Google Ventures), boldstart ventures, Accel
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2024 by serial entrepreneur Guy Podjarny (ex-Snyk founder, scaled to $8B+ valuation); rapid Series A raise of $100M+; early category leadership in "skill management" for AI agents; active hiring across engineering, product, sales, DevRel, and marketing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder-market fit**: Guy Podjarny previously founded Snyk, a multi-billion-dollar developer security category leader, and sold a prior company (Blaze) to Akamai.
- **First-mover in a new category**: Tessl defines the "agent enablement" layer that sits between developers and AI agents – a gap no other major tool addresses.
- **Depth of governance**: Security scanning, policy gating, audit logs, and eval-driven improvement are baked into the platform, making it enterprise-ready from day one.
- **Strong investor syndicate**: Backed by top-tier VC firms with deep developer-tool and infrastructure expertise (Index, GV, Accel, boldstart).

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling enterprise adoption – proving visibility, governance, and continuous improvement for agent skills; building integrations with all major AI coding agents; expanding the skills registry and community.
- **Growth direction**: Opening a San Francisco remote office (DevRel role), growing sales and marketing teams, and deepening platform capabilities in security and compliance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as "AI Native" with operating principles like "Grab a Shovel" (get scrappy), "Embrace the Pace," "Build, then Break," and "Own It." The company values in-person collaboration and regularly hosts AI community events at its London HQ.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid with anchor days in the office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Some roles (e.g., DevRel) are remote-friendly (San Francisco, New York).
- **Perks**: 25 days holiday, employee stock options, private health insurance, 2 volunteer days, learning & development budget, enhanced parental leave and sick leave, Cycle to Work scheme, commuter stipend for travel outside London.

## Sources
1. [tessl.io](https://tessl.io/) – Product overview and features
2. [tessl.io/careers](https://tessl.io/careers/) – Culture, perks, and open roles
3. [tessl.io/about](https://tessl.io/about/) – Leadership, funding, and investors
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tessl) – Funding history and company data

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