Head of Research – Editorial

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🌐 Germany, Portugal, +3 more countries – Remote

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Platform Engineering

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Education • Consulting • B2B

Platform Engineering is a community-driven education and training organization focused on platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and related DevOps/cloud-native practices. It operates a large global community (280,000+ members, 25,000+ active Slack members) and provides free courses, trainer-led certification journeys (e. g. , Platform Engineering Certified Practitioner and Architect), events, reports, a vendor/tooling landscape, a certified provider directory, jobs listings, and advisory/training services for enterprise teams. The site positions itself as the primary hub and university for platform engineers, offering resources, certifications, and community connection.

📋 Description

• Lead Weave Intelligence and own Platform Engineering's intellectual agenda • Develop and maintain the research agenda, editorial calendar, evidence standards, and research team • Set the quarterly theme calendar across reports, articles, webinars, courses, and videos • Align content, events, and sales around a consistent narrative • Balance original thought leadership backed by proprietary data with rapid-response market analysis • Lead the analyst practice, including methodology, editorial ownership of major reports, market guides, and vendor briefings • Maintain and defend the editorial firewall separating sponsorship from conclusions • Publish regularly under your own name and serve as analyst chair at company and industry events • Conduct vendor and enterprise briefings and develop structured views of the vendor landscape • Lead and develop the content team and brand designers • Build relationships with media houses, analyst firms, and independent voices for co-published research, syndication, and joint formats • Collaborate with founders on public positioning and amplify company ideas through stages and publications

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in roles involving technology market analysis and thought leadership, such as industry analyst, editor or lead writer at a technical publication, content or product marketing lead, or developer advocacy lead • Deep expertise in platform engineering, developer tooling, cloud infrastructure, or AI adoption in software development • Ability to engage credibly with staff engineers and CTOs • Body of published work under your own name • Ability to defend industry viewpoints with evidence • Strong narrative judgment • Editorial rigor, including methodology, sourcing, and fact-checking • Experience leading and developing a small team of writers, researchers, or producers • Comfort speaking on stage, on camera, and in vendor leadership briefings • Operating discipline with calendars, standards, and publishing cadence • Exceptional written and spoken English • Willingness to travel a few times per year for events and offsites • Familiarity with survey design and quantitative research methods (nice to have) • Existing relationships across the cloud native and developer tooling ecosystem (nice to have) • Hands-on engineering or platform background (nice to have) • Experience working in a startup or scale-up and with remote, globally distributed teams (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunities to attend PlatformCon, KubeCon, re:Invent, and Google Cloud Next • Opportunities to represent Weave in the press and participate in industry events • Work with a globally distributed team • Opportunities for professional and public-facing development through research, writing, speaking, and media appearances