Head of Research & Editorial

About Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering (platformengineering.org) is home to the world's largest community of platform engineers. Through PlatformCon, one of the world's largest conferences dedicated to platform engineering, we bring together more than 50,000 engineers, technology leaders, and decision-makers every year to share ideas, showcase innovation, and shape the future of internal developer platforms.

Alongside our events, we run a university, a newsletter read by hundreds of thousands of engineers, a growing YouTube channel, and Weave Intelligence, our research arm: the analyst practice behind the State of Platform Engineering report, market guides on the platform engineering reference architecture, and a growing set of data products on how the agentic enterprise is actually being built.

About the Role

We're looking for a Head of Research & Editorial to lead Weave Intelligence and own what we say about the industry.

This is the role that owns Platform Engineering's intellectual agenda. Everything we publish across every channel starts with a thesis about where platform engineering, internal developer platforms and agentic software development are going. Today that thesis lives in the heads of our founders. You will make it a practice: a research agenda, an editorial calendar, a standard for what counts as evidence, and a team that turns it into reports, guides, articles, courses and video that the market reads first.

You'll be a named analyst, not a manager of analysts. You will publish under your own byline, take briefings from vendors, sit on our analyst desk at PlatformCon and at KubeCon, re:Invent and Google Cloud Next, and re