Developer Programs Lead

Render; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Life insurance

401K

Medical coverage

Dental & vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Cell phone stipend

Internet subsidy

Commuter benefits

Home office stipend

Learning benefits

Job summary

Render in the United States is seeking a Developer Programs Lead to own our social presence, developer community, and developer programs.

You will set the strategy across four areas, decide hiring needs, and build a team to engage with thousands of developers.

Reporting to the Head of Developer Experience, you’ll partner with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to shape Render’s developer voice in public channels and run events, AMAs, and content programs to accelerate growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years across social, community, developer marketing or brand.
• Experience hiring and leading a team or building a function.
• Hands-on ownership of company social channels.
• Experience building a developer community or program.
• Experience shaping a brand voice.
• Fluency with developer audiences and technical content.
• Ability to work without a playbook across multiple teams.
• Steady judgment when things go wrong in public.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the team for social, community, developer programs, and developer brand.
• Set strategy and goals for social, community, developer programs, and brand.
• Decide what to build first, what to hand to agencies, and when to hire; manage the team.
• Report on progress to leadership and adjust strategies as needed.
• Own social channels: write posts, engage developers, and drive conversations.
• Grow Render's developer community on platforms like Discord and Reddit.
• Run AMAs, livestreams, and community events with the DX team.
• Develop and run developer programs including creators, ambassadors, and referrals.
• Define Render's developer voice and ensure cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Social strategy

Community building

Developer marketing

Brand voice

Team leadership

Tools

Discord

Reddit

AMAs

Livestreams

Job description

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you're building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 7 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $260M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.

Applying to Render

We’re seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role

More than 7 million developers use Render, and most of them found us through other developers. We're building a team to further drive this developer led growth. As our first Developer Programs Lead, you'll own Render's social presence, developer community, developer programs, and developer voice.

You’ll set the strategy across all four areas, decide where to hire, where to use agencies or creators, and in what order.

You’ll report to Raph Terrier, Head of Developer Experience. The DX team owns content: tutorials, videos, docs, and articles. Your team owns how Render sounds, how that content reaches developers, and the programs and community around it. You’ll also work closely with our VP of Marketing, product marketing, and product.

What You’ll Do

• Build and lead the team
  • Set the strategy and goals for social, community, developer programs, and developer brand.
  • Decide what to build first, what to hand to agencies or contractors, and when to hire. Then hire and manage the team.
  • Report on what's working to Developer Experience and Marketing leadership, and change course when something isn't.

Own Social

• Run Render's accounts on X, LinkedIn, and Reddit yourself at first. Write the posts, reply to developers, and join the conversations where Render has something useful to say.
• Set the channel strategy: where we show up, how often, and what we measure.
• Handle the hard moments in public, including outages, pricing changes, and sharp criticism, with the right people inside Render.

Grow our Developer Community

• Build Render's presence in Discord, Reddit, and the other places developers gather, with the DX team.
• Run AMAs, livestreams, and community events with DX.
• Bring what you hear from developers back to Product and Engineering.

Run developer programs

• Build programs that grow Render's reach through other people: developer creators, ambassadors, referrals, speaking, and employee advocacy.

Own the developer voice

• Define Render's voice and style for developers, and write it down so engineers, product managers, and marketers sound like Render when they write or post.
• Work with the VP of Marketing and product marketing on Render's external narrative and how each launch shows up in public.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years across social, community, developer marketing, or brand, including time building or leading a function at a growing company.
• Experience hiring and leading a team, or building a function from early stage with a clear plan for who to add and when.
• Recent hands‑on ownership of a company's social channels. You can show us accounts you ran and copy you wrote.
• Experience building a developer community or program, with results you can explain.
• Experience shaping a brand voice, and examples of how it changed the way a company sounded.
• Fluency with developer audiences and enough technical comfort to write accurately about infrastructure, with the judgment to check with an engineer first.
• You work without a playbook and with little direction across Marketing, Product, and Engineering.
• Steady judgment when something goes wrong in public.

Nice‑to‑Haves

• Experience at a developer tools, cloud, or infrastructure company.
• You've run a creator, influencer, or ambassador program.
• An active personal presence on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, or another platform developers use.
• Comfort on camera or behind a mic.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child. We will also work with you to create a supportive plan of return.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent. FSAs and HSAs are available as well.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.

This position is generally not eligible for new visa sponsorship. At Render's discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

Render is an equal-opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy‑related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

We encourage all who are interested to apply. We can't wait to hear from you!

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