Developer Community Manager

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

You.com seeks a leader to own and execute the developer community strategy across San Francisco and New York City. You will cultivate relationships with AI engineers, startups, researchers, and academic groups, shaping programs that engage technical audiences and drive API adoption.

Collaborate with DevRel, Product, and Marketing to create hands-on experiences using You.com APIs, coordinate events, and grow a scalable community ecosystem with measurable impact.

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.
• Ability to create events and programs that technical audiences repeatedly participate in.
• Understanding of how developers discover, evaluate, adopt, and advocate for developer tools and APIs.
• Credible conversations with engineers about APIs, AI agents, LLMs, developer infrastructure, and modern AI app 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 ecosystem members.
• Develop recurring meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours, and other community programming.
• Turn You.com's SF and NYC hubs into destinations for the AI builder community.
• Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands-on experiences using You.com's APIs.
• Identify and cultivate community champions and power users as advocates, contributors, speakers, and partners.
• Build relationships with developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners.
• Maintain an authentic presence on X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, and emerging communities.
• Create feedback loops with Product and Engineering around questions, friction points, use cases, and opportunities.
• Partner with Marketing to amplify community people, projects, demos, and stories.
• Develop scalable community programs beyond individual events.
• Establish goals and measurement for community growth, event participation, API signups, activation, product usage, advocacy, and pipeline.
• Represent You.com at developer conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other technical community events.

Skills

Community Building

Event Management

API Understanding

AI Infrastructure Experience

Strong Communication Skills

Tools

You.com APIs

X

LinkedIn

GitHub

Discord

Hacker News

Job description

• 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 local ecosystem members


• Develop recurring meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours, and other community programming


• Turn You.com's San Francisco and New York hubs into destinations for the AI builder community


• Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands‑on experiences using You.com's APIs


• Identify and cultivate community champions and power users as advocates, contributors, speakers, and partners


• Build relationships with developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners


• Maintain an authentic presence on X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, and emerging communities


• Create feedback loops with Product and Engineering teams around questions, friction points, use cases, and opportunities


• Partner with Marketing to amplify community people, projects, demos, and stories


• Develop scalable community programs beyond individual events


• Establish goals and measurement for 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

Requirements

• 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

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and managing developer communities, with a strong focus on AI and technical ecosystems. Capable of creating engaging events and programs that drive community participation and product adoption.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Community Building


• Event Management


• API Understanding


• AI Infrastructure Experience


• Strong Communication Skills

Hard Skills

• Community Strategy


• Event Creation


• Technical Workshops


• Hackathons


• API Knowledge


• AI Application Development


• Data-Driven Community Building


• Developer Tools Familiarity


• Open-Source Community Engagement


• Technical Program Development

Soft Skills

• Relationship Building


• Proactivity


• Collaboration


• Authentic Communication


• Engagement Skills

Industry Keywords

• AI Community


• Developer Ecosystem


• Startup Community


• Technical Audience Engagement


• Community Advocacy

Tools & Technologies

• You.com APIs


• X


• LinkedIn


• GitHub


• Discord


• Hacker News