AI Developer Community Lead

youcom; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

You.com in San Francisco and New York invites a passionate community builder to lead developer relations and events. You will design and run programs that engage AI engineers, researchers, startups, and universities, turning communities into productive developer ecosystems.

Work closely with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to create hands-on experiences, drive API adoption, and gather feedback that informs product direction.

Qualifications

• Experience building or managing a developer, technical, startup, or AI community.
• Strong existing relationships within the AI and developer ecosystem, particularly in SF and/or NY.
• Demonstrated ability to create events and programs that technical audiences choose to participate in repeatedly.
• Strong understanding of how developers discover, evaluate, adopt, and advocate for developer tools and APIs.
• Technically fluent enough to have credible conversations with engineers about APIs, AI agents, LLMs, developer infrastructure, and modern AI application development.
• Comfortable getting hands-on with developer products and learning enough to demonstrate and discuss them authentically.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage developers without sounding like traditional corporate marketing.
• Experience collaborating across DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales.
• Highly proactive and comfortable building programs from scratch rather than inheriting an established community playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own You.com's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York City, establishing a consistent presence in two of the world's most important AI ecosystems.
• Build relationships with AI engineers, founders, researchers, technical leaders, developer groups, startups, universities, and other influential members of the local developer ecosystem.
• Develop a regular cadence of high-quality community programming, including meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours, and other formats that developers genuinely want to attend.
• Turn You.com's SF and NYC hubs into destinations for the AI builder community, creating recurring opportunities for developers to learn, build, and connect.
• Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands-on experiences that get developers building with You.com's APIs, reducing the distance between attending a community event and making a first API call.
• Identify and cultivate community champions and power users who can become advocates, contributors, speakers, and long-term partners for You.com
• Build relationships with complementary developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners to expand our reach.
• Maintain an authentic presence in the online communities where AI developers spend their time, including X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, and emerging communities
• Create feedback loops between the developer community and our Product and Engineering teams, surfacing recurring questions, friction points, use cases, and product opportunities
• Partner with Marketing to amplify the people, projects, demos, and stories emerging from our community
• Develop scalable community programs that allow You.com to support builders beyond individual events
• Establish clear goals and measurement across community growth, event participation, API signups, activation, product usage, advocacy, and community-sourced pipeline
• Represent You.com at developer conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other technical community events

Skills

Community management

DevRel experience

Event planning

API knowledge

Technical conversations

Cross-functional collaboration

Public speaking

Written communication

Job description

You.com in San Francisco and New York invites a passionate community builder to lead developer relations and events. You will design and run programs that engage AI engineers, researchers, startups, and universities, turning communities into productive developer ecosystems.

Work closely with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to create hands-on experiences, drive API adoption, and gather feedback that informs product direction.