Head of Developer Relations

Lightsprint; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightsprint, the YC-backed collaborative product-development platform, is hiring its first community and developer relations lead in San Francisco. You’ll be the voice between our users and engineers, building a thriving community of non-technical builders and production-minded developers who trust what our agents produce.

Every demo, doc, or talk you create will come from hands-on use of the product in an AI-cloud-agent workflow, turning everyday usage into clear, teachable content.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of DevRel or community education in developer tools or technical products.
• Ability to ship demos, docs, talks, and tutorials.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication for PMs and engineers alike.

Responsibilities

• Build the community from zero across Discord/Slack and events.
• Ship content that teaches, not markets, including demos and tutorials.
• Synthesize community feedback into sharp product input.
• Represent Lightsprint in public through talks, podcasts, and launches.
• Own launches and coordinate across channels for momentum.

Skills

DevRel

Community building

Content creation

Technical communication

Tools

Discord

Slack

Community platforms

Job description

Lightsprint (YC P26) is the collaborative product-development platform for the AI era. Think of the code-aware task board, the cloud coding agents, and the per-task preview environment as one system: every task on the board is a real agent session with its own environment, preview URL, and context.

AI made software engineering dramatically faster, and so the software design lifecycle, used in teams, is due an update. We believe human collaboration is here to stay: for taste, for ownership, for the simple fact that great products aren't made alone.

The role

This is our first community and developer relations hire. Lightsprint sits at an unusual intersection: our most enthusiastic users are non-technical builders shipping to production for the first time, and the people they work with are engineers who need to trust what agents produce. You'll be the voice between us and both audiences, building the community where they learn from each other, and making sure what we hear from them shapes what we build.

Everything you make (demos, docs, talks, threads) comes from actually using the product, every day, in an AI-cloud-agent workflow.

What you'll do

• Build the community from zero. Own our Discord/Slack, spin up rituals that make people want to show up (demo days, build-in-public showcases, office hours) and turn early users into evangelists.
• Ship content that teaches, not markets. Demo videos, tutorials, templates, and technical deep-dives that show what spec-driven delivery looks like in practice, for PMs and engineers alike.
• Be the feedback loop. Synthesize what the community is saying into sharp product input for the founders. You'll know before anyone else where the product delights and where it confuses.
• Represent Lightsprint in public. Talks, podcasts, meetups, launch posts, and the ongoing conversation about how AI changes how teams ship software.
• Own launches. Coordinate Product Hunt, Hacker News, X, and community channels so every release lands with momentum.

Requirements

• You've done DevRel, community, or developer education at a developer tool or technical product, ideally early-stage, where you built the motion rather than inherited it. 3+ years of relevant experience.
• You can use the product for real. You don't need to be a professional engineer, but you can ship something with AI coding tools, read a PR, and explain a preview environment without notes.
• Exceptional written and spoken communication. You make complex, technical things feel simple and exciting, to a PM and to a staff engineer, in the same piece.
• You're a builder of audiences. You have evidence: a community you grew, a following, a channel, a newsletter, something that shows people choose to listen to you.

Nice-to-have

• An existing audience or credibility in the AI coding / agent tooling space.
• Experience creating video content (demos, tutorials, short-form) end to end.
• Prior experience as an engineer, PM, or founder.
• Experience with community platforms and tooling (Discord, Circle, Luma, Common Room or similar).