Technical Curriculum Developer - London

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.

Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving it’s accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Neo4j GraphAcademy

Neo4j GraphAcademy is our free, self-paced, hands-on online training platform.The mission of GraphAcademy is to provide high-quality online training for users of all levels to make them successful. GraphAcademy provides a clear learning path for beginners to become experts within a given field with curated learning paths for Developers, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists. Courses on Neo4j GraphAcademy are intended to be fun, engaging and interactive and provide an immersive experience for learners with diverse learning preferences.

What we are looking for:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Curriculum Developer who is excited about teaching and engaging with Neo4j users of all experience levels. Your day-to-day work will involve creating engaging, hands-on online training courses and videos that assign user-specific tasks that utilize Neo4j features and tools. You should be comfortable expressing complex subject matter clearly, simply, and engaging.

You should be comfortable in front of a camera.

If this sounds like you, we should talk. We strongly encourage under-represented groups to apply.

As a Curriculum Developer, you are excited about educating new learners about cutting-edge technologies. You will work with users and teams across the organization to identify gaps in the course catalog and develop courses to cover these gaps. You will work closely with a distributed Developer Relations team. You will work collaboratively with the broader Marketing team and other groups such as Product Management, Solutions Engineering, and R&D.

Your tasks include:

• Creating technical content to educate and empower developers; this can include videos, sample applications, presentations, blog posts, and other materials.
• Using the existing Neo4j Documentation to produce courses that educate users of all levels.
• Creating accompanying materials to support the learner’s continuing education.
• Producing diagrams and animations to communicate concepts in an easy-to-understand way.
• Recording video and audio lessons to accompany text-based lessons.
• Provide feedback on Neo4j managed services offerings, course catalog, and database capabilities to help improve the feedback loop between what users need and what Neo4j delivers.
• Build learning paths for different graph use cases so that developers can take a series of courses that build on each other and prepare them for developing graph applications.

We measure the success of this role by the increasing number of Certified Neo4j Professionals and overall and course-specific completion rates.

In a few months, you will have learned how to use graph technology to improve community education and developed and published your first course.

A few months later, you will have worked on several programs in front of our community; helping them succeed with Neo4j and developing several hands-on, interactive courses. By the end of the year, you will have contributed significantly to the course catalog and supporting materials.

Must Haves:

• A background in developer education or technical writing.
• Ability to research and develop training materials for users of all ability levels.
• An empathy for users and their learning experience.
• A strong command of the English language - both writing and speaking.
• Experience working remotely.

Nice to have:

skills that are not required but that we can help you build upon

• Experience with graphs, graph databases, or Neo4j.
• Experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models and GenAI frameworks.
• Experience with software development, databases, data engineering, or machine learning.
• Experience authoring and publishing content with Asciidoc or Markdown.
• Experience in recording videos or giving online presentations.
• Experience in creating interactive experiences, designs, and tools

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

• Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
• Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
• 84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
• Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
• Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
• A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
• Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

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