Founding Growth & Developer Marketing
Paris · Remote · Full time · Posted 12D AGO
€50K - €100K EUR
About the role
Own Windmill's growth - from developer awareness to self-serve activation to expansion. As a developer platform, Windmill's closest comparison is an open-source, self-hostable Cloudflare. So far, $4M ARR has been built with zero outbound and modest marketing - imagine what a dedicated growth person could do. This is a broad, high-autonomy role with one clear priority: make Windmill visible and credible to platform teams at US enterprises, our primary market. You'll own measurable targets: signups, activation, and enterprise pipeline sourced.
The team is lean by design: a few people with excellent taste ship faster than a larger team.
What you'll do, in priority order
- Visibility & brand: make every release an event. Launches, Hacker News, conference talks, YouTube, podcasts, and a regular release cadence that keeps Windmill in front of developers.
- Content for developers and for buyers: technical content developers actually want to read (tutorials, comparisons), plus what the enterprise buyer needs to say yes: customer case studies, migration guides from Airflow or Retool, security and compliance pages, cost comparisons. All of it built to rank in search.
- Warm enterprise accounts: we already know which companies run the open-source version at scale. Turn that into targeted campaigns and content for those accounts, and hand the engaged ones to the founders. No cold outreach.
In support of those: community (Discord, GitHub, forums), product-led growth (onboarding, activation, self-serve conversion), and analytics to measure what works.
Who we're looking for
You can be an engineer who wants to branch out, or a non-engineer with a deep feel for developer tools.
- Deep knowledge of the US market is very important. The US, and US enterprise in particular, is our primary market. You need to know those companies deeply as the ultimate buyer: how they discover, evaluate, and buy developer tools. The role itself is based in France.
- You write very well in English, for a technical audience. Blog posts, docs, comparisons, launch posts. This is the core skill of the job.
- Devtool growth experience is a plus, not a requirement. If you've grown awareness, adoption, or revenue for a developer-facing product, show us what worked.
- You understand how developers evaluate tools, what content resonates with them, and how open-source adoption works.
- No minimum years of experience, as long as you have plenty of devtool experience. It doesn't have to come from a growth job: having been a founder or a developer counts just as much.
Example projects in your first 3 months
- Write and ship a head-to-head comparison series (Windmill vs Airflow, Temporal, Retool, n8n) optimized for search
- Run a targeted campaign for companies already running the open-source version at scale, and hand the engaged accounts to the founders
- Redesign the onboarding flow to get new signups to a running workflow in under 3 minutes - measure activation lift
Offer details
Location: Paris hybrid (~3 days/week) or remote within France
Contract: CDI (permanent)
Salary: €50K–€100K gross + 20% bonus on collective milestones
Also open to: interns / young graduates (5–6 month internship, €2,000–3,000/month, strong CDI potential)
About the interview
CV + a writing sample (something you wrote for a technical audience, or a short teardown of Windmill's current funnel) + a short note on what you'd do in your first 30 days (keep it genuine — a two-liner beats an AI-generated paragraph) → jobs@windmill.dev (subject: "Growth & Developer Marketing"). Bonus: link to a growth project you've run.
- Apply here or email jobs@windmill.dev
- 30 min interview with founder
- Case study / growth exercise
- You're hired
About Windmill
Windmill is an open-source developer platform (16k+ GitHub stars, Paris-based) that turns scripts into workflows, internal tools, and full-stack apps. It's the sweet spot between Retool and Temporal - we compete with both, plus Airflow and n8n, and we're winning on DX and performance.
How it works: write scripts in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, Rust, SQL, etc. Windmill analyzes their parameters and auto-generates UIs, turning each script into a standalone app or a reusable no-code module. Chain scripts into flows (branching, parallelism, retries, error handling) to build powerful workflows. Trigger anything via cron, webhook, auto-generated UI, or custom dashboards built with our app builder. Under the hood: an all-in-one queue/worker runtime, script editor, flow builder, secret manager, OAuth platform, with enterprise-grade permissions, groups, and audit logs.
The insight: no-code tools are intuitive but not extensible. Writing code is only 10% of the work - then you deal with credentials, CI/CD, permissions, UIs, error handling. Windmill handles all of that so developers focus on the logic that matters.
Stack: Rust / TypeScript + Svelte / PostgreSQL. Easy to deploy, works out of the box, replaces entire categories of internal infra.
Founded by Ruben Fiszel (ex-Palantir), who saw the need for enterprise workflow infrastructure but realized it had to be open-source, developer-focused, and built for best-in-class performance and DX - not another Spark wrapper.
300+ enterprise customers, 4M ARR, profitable. Tier 1 investors (YC, Google, Bessemer). Team of 10 engineers. Our customers run between 2 and 600 workers, 1 to +1,000 seats.
Culture: a tight team with a strong high-trust, high-autonomy culture. We get together in Paris every month and do 2-3 offsites a year (skiing, kitesurfing, and more).
Revenue model: the core platform is fully open-source with thousands of individuals and companies using it for free. ~5% of features (enterprise-scoped: SSO, audit logs, dedicated workers, etc.) live in a private repository that companies pay to access, along with premium support. All revenue to date has been generated with zero outbound sales and modest marketing - purely inbound and product-led.
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