SF AI Community Engineer & GTM Advocate

Salesatstartups; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Budget for events/travel/tools

Direct access to founders

Job summary

ZenML, the open-source framework for production ML, is looking for a proactive US-based Community/SDR-minded individual to establish and grow the San Francisco presence. You will own meetups, host events, and become the face of ZenML in the SF AI-infra scene.

You'll demo the Python framework, write content, and connect with ML engineers and open-source contributors, turning community signals into measurable product impact. This is an early-career role with strong growth potential.

Qualifications

• Experience in developer relations or tech community-building.
• Ability to demo a Python framework to technical audiences.
• Strong networking and event-management skills.
• Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and GTM concepts.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow the SF ZenML community and biweekly events.
• Attend AI/ML meetups, hackathons, and conferences to connect people.
• Create talks, blogs, demos and social content.
• Demo ZenML live to technical audiences and engage engineers.
• Instrument events with product signals and automate follow-ups.
• Provide feedback from community to product and GTM teams.

Skills

Public speaking

Community building

Developer relations

GTM strategy

Networking

Tools

Mixpanel

GitHub

Attio

Clay

Job description

The short version

ZenML is the open-source framework for production ML and agentic pipelines, built in Munich, used by thousands of engineering teams worldwide. We have the product, a large GitHub community, real usage signals, and paying customers.

What we don't have is a face in San Francisco - someone who brings the SF AI community together around ZenML, and engineers that energy into pipeline.

That's this role. You'll be our first US hire - a one-person outpost in SF, reporting directly to the founders. You'll build the community, host the events, be the person everyone in the scene knows - and you'll run it all like an engineer: instrumented, signal-driven, and measurable. Bringing people together is the job. Turning that into revenue is how we both know it's working.

What you'll actually do

• Own the SF community and run the events. Host a ZenML meetup every two weeks - real rooms, great speakers, the kind of event people actually show up for and keep talking after. Build it from zero into the room the SF ML-infra crowd doesn't want to miss. This is the heartbeat of the role.
• Be everywhere. Work the AI-infra meetups, hackathons, and conferences that matter. Be the connector - the person who knows everyone and introduces them to each other. When someone says "MLOps" or "ML pipelines" at a dinner in SoMa, we want your name to come up.
• Evangelize, loudly and credibly. Talks, blog posts, social, short demo videos - content that comes from what you're seeing in the community, not a calendar handed to you. You're the voice of ZenML in the US.
• Demo the product for real. You can run ZenML live in front of a technical audience, answer real questions, and read code well enough to know what's going on. You don't ship features - our engineers do that - but you're never the person hiding behind slides.
• Engineer the motion underneath it all. This is what makes you different from a classic community hire. You don't just run events and hope - you instrument them. Who showed up, who's now running pipelines, which GitHub repos lit up, which accounts are ramping. You wire product and community signals (Mixpanel, GitHub, Attio, Clay) into an automated flow - enrichment, scoring, follow-up - so every conversation you start in a room turns into traceable pipeline instead of a business card in a drawer.
• Be our eyes and ears in the Valley. What people are building, what frustrates them, who's evaluating what - it flows straight back into product and GTM. Direct impact from day one.

What success looks like at 6 months

1. ZenML is a known name in the SF AI-infra scene - a thriving bi-weekly meetup series with real, growing attendance, and a community that knows you and us.
2. A measurable stream of pipeline and signups traceable to the community and events you built - the proof that the motion works.
3. A system, not a hustle: product and community signals reliably feeding qualified, followed-up conversations, so it compounds instead of resetting every month.
4. A content and social presence that pulls all of the above together.

Reputation and community first, pipeline as proof, and an engineered motion so none of it depends on heroics.

Who you are

• Ambitious and high-energy - drive counts more than your CV. This is an early-career role, and we'd take raw hunger, hustle, and talent over a longer résumé any day. If you're the person who makes things happen and can't sit still, the exact line count of your experience matters far less to us.
• Some real reps in DevRel, community, growth, or developer-facing GTM - ideally somewhere smaller and scrappier than a FAANG. Whether that's a year or a few, what counts is that you've gotten people in a room and followed up so it turned into something.
• A natural connector and host. Ambitious, high-energy, genuinely likes people and brings them together. You send the slightly audacious DM, you make the "small ask," you remember names, and people leave your events wanting to come back.
• Technical enough for a developer product. You can demo a Python framework live, read code, work with APIs, and hold your own with ML engineers. You know when to pull in an engineer for the deep stuff.
• Systems-minded. You instinctively turn a manual, one-off hustle into something repeatable and measurable. Comfortable in the modern GTM stack (a CRM, enrichment, Clay or similar, light automation and LLM workflows) - or hungry to learn it fast.
• Self-directed to a fault. You'll run the US presence largely solo. Nobody tells you what to do on a Tuesday morning - that excites you rather than terrifies you. And you won't be totally alone: the founders are in SF regularly, so you'll get real in-person strategy time even though HQ is nine time zones away in Munich.
• In San Francisco, or moving there. This job does not work remotely. The whole point is presence.

Nice to have

• Existing network in the SF AI / ML / infra community
• A visible personal brand - talks you've given, events you've run that people remember, a following
• Experience running GTM off product-usage or open-source signals (PLG / usage-based motions)
• Experience with open-source communities (GitHub-native audiences behave differently)
• Familiarity with the MLOps / LLMOps / agent-infrastructure landscape

What we offer

• Attractive incentivization package including stock options - you're employee #1 in the US, and the package reflects that
• Real budget for events, travel, and tooling - hosting things and building the motion both cost money, and we know it
• Direct line to the founders, who you'll see in SF regularly; no layers, no politics
• The chance to build ZenML's entire US presence and go-to-market with your fingerprints on it

About Us

ZenML is more than a platform - it’s the next-generation framework making production AI accessible to every organization. From classical ML to autonomous agents, our open-source toolkit empowers teams to build robust internal AI platforms. We help data scientists and engineers ship reliably and at lightning speed.

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