AI Developer Community Lead

Content Creators; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hubs in SF & NY

Flexible PTO

Health insurance

Parental leave 12 weeks

401k 3% match

Work-from-home stipend

Technology stipend

Health & Wellness Allowance

AI research collaboration

Job summary

You.com is seeking a Developer Relations role to build and nurture vibrant developer communities in San Francisco and New York City. You will connect engineers, researchers, and startups with You.com products and APIs to drive adoption and advocacy.

Work closely with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to turn community engagement into meaningful product feedback and pipeline. A passion for technical communities and hands‑on engagement is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience building or managing a developer, technical, startup, or AI community.
• Strong existing relationships within the AI and developer ecosystem, particularly in San Francisco and/or New York.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own You.com's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York City.
• 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.
• 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.
• Identify and cultivate community champions and power users who can become advocates, contributors, speakers, and long‑term partners.
• Maintain an authentic presence in online communities like X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News.
• Create feedback loops between the developer community and our Product and Engineering teams, surfacing recurrent questions and product opportunities.

Skills

Community builder

Developer relations

Event planning

API awareness

Strategic partnerships

Communication skills

Job description

You.com is seeking a Developer Relations role to build and nurture vibrant developer communities in San Francisco and New York City. You will connect engineers, researchers, and startups with You.com products and APIs to drive adoption and advocacy.

Work closely with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to turn community engagement into meaningful product feedback and pipeline. A passion for technical communities and hands‑on engagement is essential.