Technical Community & Programs Lead

Visa Hunt; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier compensation

Stock options

Health & wellness

Meals provided

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

Visa sponsorship

Team off-sites

Job summary

Reflection is building open-weight AI systems and seeks a Technical Community & Programs Lead to cultivate our presence in research and developer communities. You will represent Reflection, create demos and tutorials, and contribute to the open-source ecosystem while shaping our events and partnership programs.

The role requires deeply embedded community involvement, strong program management, and compelling technical storytelling to drive engagement across events, platforms, and partnerships.

Qualifications

• Active participant in AI developer or research communities.
• Experience running community programs or technical marketing.
• Strong writing and communication skills for technical audiences.
• Ability to manage events calendars and partner programs.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate Reflection’s presence with developer and research communities.
• Foster trusted relationships with researchers, engineers, and community figures.
• Represent Reflection externally with demos, tutorials, and open-source contributions.
• Organize and run hackathons, meetups, and webinars for developers and researchers.
• Build ambassador and developer programs end-to-end; manage partnerships.
• Collaborate with Comms, Product, Research, and GTM for content strategy and events.
• Develop community content and channel strategy to engage developers beyond launches.
• Provide community feedback to shape Reflection's product and messaging.

Skills

Developer relations

Community building

Event planning

Technical writing

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

GitHub

YouTube

Hugging Face

X (Twitter)

Job description

Our Mission

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use, customize, and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

About the Role

Reflection is building open-weight AI systems that researchers, developers, and enterprises are looking to as the foundational intelligence layer for their technology. Researchers and developers are our earliest adopters, our most credible validators, and a core distribution channel through which frontier AI reaches the world. We are hiring a Technical Community & Programs Lead to build and own Reflection's presence within the communities that matter most: researchers, developers, and the builders who will shape what the open source AI ecosystem becomes.

We are looking for someone who has a deep background in this world already, a point of view on what's worth attending and what’s worth building, and can represent Reflection with the kind of authenticity that comes from being a passionate, active participant in the AI community.

What You'll Do

Cultivate Reflection’s presence with developer and research communities

• Foster and maintain trusted relationships with the researchers, engineers, and community figures who shape opinion and direction in open AI development.

• Represent Reflection externally and build alongside the community, creating demos, tutorials, and contributing to the open source ecosystem.

• Help build our presence in the developer and research spaces where real technical discourse happens – including at industry and hosted events, on X, YouTube, and Hugging Face, etc. – as a credible, distinct voice with a perspective.

• Identify and engage the tastemakers, contributors, and builders who are doing interesting work with open models, and help Reflection show up as a genuine collaborator.

Build and oversee our community programs and event strategy

• Own ambassador and developer programs end-to-end: strategy, structure, recruiting, activation, and ongoing relationship management.

• Develop the community content and channel strategy that gives developers and researchers a reason to engage with Reflection beyond launches. This includes tutorials, discussions, technical explainers, community spotlights.

• Build and manage university and researcher partnership programs that give Reflection a presence in the institutions training the next generation of AI builders.

• Help organize and run hackathons, meetups, and webinars that developers and researchers actually want to attend.

Partner closely with Comms and GTM

• Partner closely with Communications, Product, Research, Go-To-Market teams in developing the strategy and content for social, events, launches, and more.

• Build the operational infrastructure that ties our external community programming together: timelines, logistics, partner coordination, and follow-through.

• Bring community signal back to our team to shape how Reflection builds and communicates with customers, partners, and the broader AI ecosystem.

What We're Looking For

• Someone who is genuinely embedded in the developer and research community. You stay close to – and are part of – the conversations, trends, events, and programming that developers and researchers engage with. You have your own presence, your own relationships, and your own read on what's interesting and what's noise. Having a personal brand or meaningful community presence in the AI, ML, or developer ecosystem is a big plus.

• Experience running community programs, developer relations, or technical marketing at an AI company, open-source project, or developer-focused technology company.

• The operational rigor and attention to detail to own an events calendar and programs portfolio in a fast-moving environment--and the technical writing chops to produce content that earns attention in technical communities.

What We Offer:

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all, you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company, and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.

• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflection's success gets to share in the upside through stock options.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life, with an annual wellness allowance.

• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.

• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoptive and surrogate journeys.

• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

• Team building: We have regular off-sites, happy hours, and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Company's ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws, which may require the Company to seek government authorization.