Head of Developer Product Marketing

Lightning Labs is looking for a Developer Product Marketing Lead who is passionate about bringing bitcoin to the next billion people with the Lightning Network. This role will lead product marketing for Lightning Labs, serving as editor-in-chief for external messaging while building the systems and strategy that drive developer adoption of our tools and protocols. You'll own the full arc from positioning and narrative through to execution, ensuring that everything Lightning Labs publishes is technically accurate, strategically aligned, and resonates with a developer audience.

You will work closely with the VP Product, product team, content team, and business development team to translate technical work into compelling narratives and scalable go-to-market programs. The ideal candidate has experience leading marketing for developer infrastructure or protocol-level products, a strong intuition for what resonates with technical audiences, and a track record of building high performing marketing functions. You should be comfortable building and using AI-driven workflows to move fast, and excited about marketing products that sit at the frontier of bitcoin, Lightning, and AI-native payments.

• Own and drive Lightning Labs' marketing strategy across product launches, developer campaigns, content, and community engagement.

• Define and create measurable KPIs to ensure efficient resource allocation across the wide variety of potential marketing activities

• Define positioning and messaging for Lightning Labs' products, including LND, the leading Lightning implementation, Taproot Assets for stable coins, L402 for agentic payments, Terminal, the UI for node operators, and developer tooling. Establish technical authority and differentiation to highlight the best of our developer experience.

• Build and execute go-to-market plans for new product launches and protocol milestones, coordinating across product, engineering, content, and business development.

• Own editorial quality and consistency for external content, from blog posts to social media and launch announcements.

• Shape the broader narrative around Lightning's role in the future of payments, stable coins, and AI-native commerce.

• Ensure all external communications maintain technical credibility while being accessible to developers entering the ecosystem.

• Translate highly technical protocol and infrastructure concepts into accessible, compelling narratives that give developers the context they need to understand not just what a product does, but why it matters and how to use it.

• Build the positioning frameworks, templates, and processes that enable the content team and collaborators to produce high-quality output consistently.

• Coordinate and orchestrate content across channels, ensuring coverage of key product moments and a cohesive point of view.

• Lead the editorial direction for Lightning Labs' blog, social channels, and developer-facing communications, working with the existing team.

• Partner with the business development team to support funnel growth, from developer awareness through onboarding and adoption.

• Design and run campaigns and programs that grow the developer community, driving adoption of Lightning Labs' tools and protocols.

• Understand how developers discover, evaluate, and adopt infrastructure tools, and meet them where they are across community platforms, social media, and technical channels.

• Track and report on marketing performance, using data to iterate on what is and isn’t working.

• Design and manage AI-assisted content systems, establishing quality standards, brand guidelines, and…