We’re looking for an enthusiastic Developer Advocate that will inspire and foster a nascent community of Yoto Developers. You’ll be the champion of developer interests evaluating their needs and feeding back to product and engineering teams. You’ll be guiding the engineering team to provide easy to follow documentation for the community and contribute with tutorials and sample code. And you’ll be a hacker-in-residence exploring the platform’s possibilities and creating showcase apps.

About Yoto

Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like this one.

• Featured in Bloomberg’s 25 UK startups to watch in 2023.
• Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.
• Second fastest growing tech company in the UK, in Deloitte Fast50 2023.
• Named one of TIME Magazine’s Top 100 Inventions of 2020
• We’re 140+ employees spread across the UK, US and France.. and growing!

We’re on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it! 

What you’ll be doing:

• Serve as the voice of Yoto to the developer community, promoting Yoto’s platform, tools, and APIs

• Actively engage both in-person and virtually with external developers through forums, social media, meetups, hackathons and other relevant events to promote, gather feedback and address challenges they encounter.

• Identify high-potential developer communities, refine messaging to attract new developers,

• Create compelling content, including blog posts, tutorials, videos, and code samples, to educate and inspire developers

• Oversee API reference documentation maintained by Yoto Engineering teams to ensure that it is clear, thorough, and developer-friendly.

• Showcase capabilities of Yoto’s platform by creating open source showcase apps and plugins for 3rd party platforms

• Actively look-out for best 3rd party apps and integrations, reach out to their developers and help with showcasing their efforts

• Work closely with Yoto’s product and engineering teams to represent the needs and pain points of the developer community.

• Collaborate with marketing and commercial teams on promotional activities aimed at developer community

• Serve as the primary point of contact for external developers using Yoto’s platform, providing or facilitating support and troubleshooting assistance

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience as a Developer Advocate, API Evangelist, Technical Community Manager or similar role

• Strong technical background with experience in software development, particularly with APIs

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Track record building and engaging with developer communities, preferably in the connected HW, consumer or education tech space

• Experience collaborating with engineering, product, and marketing teams to align on developer needs and goals.

• A proven capability to produce exemplary code, documentation, and instructional content

• Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines

• A strong grasp of the latest trends and products gaining traction in the technology world

Bonus points: 

• Track record working with open-source projects or contributing to developer tools

• Experience within audio, IoT, HW or ed-tech sectors

Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 based on experience. We never want to miss out on speaking to great candidates, so please don't let our banding put you off getting in touch. You never know what might be in our future plan and how well you might fit!

What you can expect from Yoto:

• Flexibility: Hybrid working with a choice based approach - we would love you to come into the office as much as possible, with a minimum of once or twice a month. Take advantage of our ‘work from anywhere’ policy to work from a different location for up to 6 weeks every year. Summer Hours policy to use between the months of June and August.
• Financial: Generous share option programme so you’ll be invested in Yoto’s success. Receive Income Protection, covering long term sickness for up to 2 years and company sick pay that increases with length of service. Life Assurance cover from day one of your service. Workplace Pension offering up to to 3% employer contributions, following probation. Generous employee referral bonus scheme.
• Health & Wellness: Private Medical Insurance via Aviva, or a Wellbeing Allowance to be used for memberships, subscriptions, treatment or therapy. Access to 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) through WeCare and unlimited access to Dental advice and guidance via Toothfairy. Bike to work scheme to promote healthier lifestyles.
• Time Off: 25 days of holiday per year, plus bank holidays. On top of this, you also receive your birthday off, plus 1 extra day of holiday for every year worked after you hit your 2 year anniversary, up to 5 extra days. After 4 years of service, you are also eligible for our sabbatical policy offering up to 3 months' of unpaid sabbatical.
• Helping Families: Variety of family-friendly leave, including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, pregnancy loss and carers leave. Unlock savings with our workplace nursery scheme, designed to support parents of preschool-aged children.
• People & Planet: Up to 2 volunteer days a year. A Book Allowance of up to £50 a year to contribute to your professional development.
• Fun Perks: You receive your very own Yoto player and starter pack of cards! Regular company socials and celebrations, including our annual YotoFest!

Equity and Diversity

At Yoto, our mission is to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. Our success is rooted in unwavering commitment to our core principles—Kids in Control, Helping Families, Building with Empathy, Embrace Difference, and Playfully Inquisitive.

At Yoto, flexible working and autonomy are key to us. We support working parents because we know that life and work need to work together. And just as we share audio content from a diverse community of creators, we also strive to build a diverse and inclusive team. Our passionate DE&I group raises new voices, beliefs, and perspectives to help everyone at Yoto feel heard. Check out our website for more info on our approach to People and Planet.

Please only apply or engage with Yoto jobs posted on our careers page (careers.yotoplay.com or careers.yotoplay.com/en). All correspondence from our Talent team will only come through Teamtailor, our application tracking system.