Head of Developer Experience

About HeyGen At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences. Learn more at www.heygen.com . Visit our Mission and Culture doc here . The Role We're looking for a Head of Developer Experience to make HeyGen the default video and avatar layer for AI agents and developer workflows — and to own how developers discover, evaluate, adopt, and build on our platform. The AI agent ecosystem is growing fast, projected to reach $120B+ by 2032. Every company building agentic AI that needs a human-facing interface will need video generation, voice, and real-time interactive avatars. HeyGen already has the foundation — a V3 API, CLI, MCP server, and Skills for AI coding agents — plus first-mover advantage in avatar quality. What we need is someone who can take that foundation and turn it into the developer platform builders reach for first: through narrative and community, but also through direct ownership of the product surface developers actually touch. This is a senior leadership role with significant scope across both product and go-to-market. You'll be the founding leader of HeyGen's developer experience function, starting as a solo operator powered by AI tools and agent workflows, with the opportunity to build a team across both sides as the function scales. What You'll Do Developer Positioning & Story Define and own HeyGen's positioning for the AI builder and developer audience: software developers, AI/ML engineers, and technical founders building products that incorporate video, voice, and avatar capabilities. Craft the narrative that HeyGen is essential infrastructure for AI agents that communicate wit