DevRel Lead for AI & Enterprise Platforms

Runlayer; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Paid time off

Professional development

Top-tier equipment

Health benefits

Customer interactions

Job summary

Runlayer is seeking a Developer Relations Lead to own the company’s footprint in developer and enterprise AI communities. You will manage sponsorships and booth presence at major conferences while building a community our customers want to be part of.

You will oversee conference strategy, DevRel programming, and end-to-end community engagement, collaborating with engineering and product to lend technical credibility at events and drive partner co-marketing activations with Cursor, 1Password,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in developer relations, technical community, or technical events at B2B SaaS, infra, or AI companies.
• Technical background: you can hold your own in a room with senior engineers and have written code at some point.
• Proven experience running major conference sponsorships and booth operations end-to-end.
• Strong taste for what makes events memorable vs forgettable (reference points: Vercel, Stripe, Linear).
• Comfortable on stage and in front of technical audiences; able to deliver demos and talks when needed.
• Network in the developer, AI, or infrastructure communities.

Responsibilities

• Own major conference presence: AWS re:Invent, AI Engineer World's Fair, MCP Dev Summit, RSA, and others.
• Run DevRel events: meetups, hackathons, dinners, and technical workshops for MCP developers and platform engineers.
• Manage booth strategy, speaking slots, side events, and customer dinners at conferences
• Build and nurture the technical community around Runlayer and the MCP ecosystem
• Create technical content and demos that can travel to events
• Partner with engineering and product to bring technical credibility to every event
• Drive partner co-marketing activations at events (Cursor, 1Password, Anthropic, etc.)

Skills

Developer relations

Technical community

Public speaking

Conference sponsorships

Networking

B2B SaaS

Job description

Runlayer is seeking a Developer Relations Lead to own the company’s footprint in developer and enterprise AI communities. You will manage sponsorships and booth presence at major conferences while building a community our customers want to be part of.

You will oversee conference strategy, DevRel programming, and end-to-end community engagement, collaborating with engineering and product to lend technical credibility at events and drive partner co-marketing activations with Cursor, 1Password,