Twilio Champions

Anyone aged 18 or older is welcome to apply, and you should be comfortable communicating in English.

We encourage diversity and welcome applicants from different industries, career paths, regions, and cultural backgrounds.

There’s no single ideal Champion profile. We encourage you to apply regardless of your job title, industry background, or years of experience.

What sets a strong candidate apart is alignment with our core community values: Connect, Share, and Empower. We look for an authentic curiosity for technology and a genuine desire to help fellow developers succeed.

Whether you channel that energy into building technical projects and guides (Builder Track) or bringing local developers together through meetups (Community Leader Track), what matters most is your commitment to lifting up the developer community around you.

We are mindful of your commitments in work and daily life. To help you stay active and choose the option that best fits your strengths, we ask that you select only one track so you can stay focused and contribute in the way you enjoy most.

If you are highly active and interested in contributing across both tracks, we encourage you to start the track you prefer, and we can explore additional opportunities together after onboarding.

If you apply for the Builder Track, we strongly encourage you to share a Twilio project that demonstrates your hands-on experience.

If you haven’t built with Twilio yet, you can share a GitHub repository, technical article, demo, or other personal projects to showcase how you build and learn.

A qualified Twilio project must be a complete, functional build that tackles real-world implementation realities. You can submit your project in various formats, ranging from a detailed technical blog post, a comprehensive GitHub README, or a video walkthrough. We look for authentic content that showcases your technical capabilities and creativity as a builder. 

Not at all. We care more about the quality and authenticity of your work than audience size or formal titles. Strong evidence of past projects, content, or community involvement can help us understand your experience and fit.

We welcome applicants globally. If you opt for the Builder Track, you can participate fully remote from anywhere.

For the Community Leader Track, while we aim for global reach, we are initially prioritizing applicants from the following key hub locations to build focused local communities: New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Manchester, Dublin, Berlin, Munich, Singapore, India, Sydney, and Melbourne.

If you live outside these regions, you are still encouraged to apply, as we continue to grow and expand our Champion network.

Our team reviews each application based on program fit, past work, and examples of contribution.

You’ll hear from us within 15 business days, whether or not your application moves forward. Response times may be slightly longer during major holiday periods. Selected candidates will be invited to a short screening call before the final decision.

There’s no fixed hourly commitment, but we expect you to stay actively involved and contribute consistently over time. As a general guideline, we recommend at least one meaningful contribution every quarter.

Contributions can take many forms. Builders might share projects, tutorials, demos, reviews, or other technical content that they’ve made, while Community Champion Leaders might host or co-host meetups, workshops, coffee chats, or run other local developer activities.

As a Champion, we’ll feature your profile (photo, region, and job title) on our landing page. We will collect this info during onboarding, but please let us know if you prefer to opt out. We completely respect your privacy. That means, if you are uncomfortable using your real photo, feel free to use an AI-generated avatar instead.

Due to editorial limits, we cannot feature every project you submit. That being said, we want our selection process to be fair and transparent. That’s why we are actively building a structured review framework to elevate your contributions. We aim to keep you properly informed and seek your feedback and consent every step of the way.

No. Champion participation is voluntary and unpaid. Program benefits may include Champion swag, event support, API credits, networking, and other forms of recognition.

We support our Champions with meaningful resources, including Twilio API credits to power your builds, official program swag, potential conference speaking opportunities, and event travel & expense (T&E) support.

To ensure fairness and sustainability, these resources are unlocked through active contributions (such as publishing tutorials, releasing open-source demos and personal builds, or hosting local meetups), rather than an automatic program sign-up package.

Please note: The Champions Program does not serve as an enterprise customer service channel or internal ticket escalation route. All account, billing, and technical inquiries must continue through standard Twilio Support.

Your Champion membership is evaluated annually and remains active as long as you participate and contribute. To keep things lightweight, contributions are collected at the end of each quarter and reviewed toward the end of your annual membership cycle.  

We completely understand that work and life priorities shift, and we fully respect your choice if you need to step away from the program. To help sustain an engaged community, we will reach out for a quick check-in if you haven't been active for six months. If an entire year passes without any contributions, we will gently transition you out of the program with a formal offboarding notice. 

Absolutely! Current Twilio employees, Twilio alumni, and current Champions can nominate candidates. Simply share the application link with them and ask them to mention your name when applying.

The distinction comes down to commercial acceleration vs. community contribution:

Twilio AI Searchlight is our startup program offering enterprise product credits and commercial resources to help early-stage companies scale. Twilio Champions Program is our developer ambassador program focused on community contributions, technical sharing, and developer community mentorship.

Because Champions Program is a non-commercial, contribution-driven program, Champions cannot apply for or nominate themselves or their affiliated startups for the Twilio AI Searchlight Startup program, a policy that applies to all co-founders and employees.

However, applicants already enrolled in the AI Searchlight program are warmly invited to apply for Champions if they wish to give back to the community in an individual capacity.