AI Developer Community Lead — Hybrid (SF/NY)

You.com; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hubs in SF&NYC

Flexible PTO

Health insurance

Parental leave

401k match

Work-from-home stipend

Technology stipend

Health & Wellness Allowance

Job summary

You.com in San Francisco and New York is seeking a developer community leader who loves bringing people together. You will create events, workshops, and ongoing programming that connect developers to You.com APIs and products, turning meetups into real product adoption and advocacy.

Collaborate with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to grow two vibrant hubs, measure growth, API signups, and activation, and represent You.com at conferences and meetups with authentic, hands-on

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.
• 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.
• Data-driven approach to community building, with an understanding of how community engagement can translate into product adoption, retention, advocacy, and pipeline.
• Experience in AI infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, or open-source communities strongly preferred
• Active participation in developer or AI communities is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own You.com's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York City.
• Build relationships with AI engineers, founders, researchers, and other influential members of the local developer ecosystem.
• Develop a regular cadence of high-quality community programming, including meetups, workshops, and hackathons.
• Turn SF and NYC hubs into destinations for the AI builder community, creating recurring opportunities to learn and build.
• Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands-on experiences that drive API usage.
• Identify and cultivate community champions and power users as advocates and partners.
• Build relationships with complementary platforms and ecosystem partners to expand reach.
• Maintain an authentic presence in online communities like X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, and Hacker News.
• Create feedback loops between the community and Product/Engineering to surface opportunities.
• Partner with Marketing to amplify people, projects, and stories from the community.
• Develop scalable programs that support builders beyond events.
• Establish goals and measure growth, API signups, activation, and pipeline.
• Represent You.com at conferences, meetups, and technical events

Skills

Community building

Event planning

Developer relations

APIs & AI

Public speaking

Job description

You.com in San Francisco and New York is seeking a developer community leader who loves bringing people together. You will create events, workshops, and ongoing programming that connect developers to You.com APIs and products, turning meetups into real product adoption and advocacy.

Collaborate with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to grow two vibrant hubs, measure growth, API signups, and activation, and represent You.com at conferences and meetups with authentic, hands-on