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Developer Community Manager

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-14
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), Technical Writer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 180000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 180000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Own 's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York City
  • Build relationships with AI engineers, founders, researchers, technical leaders, developer groups, startups, universities, and other influential local ecosystem members
  • Develop recurring meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours, and other community programming
  • Turn 's San Francisco and New York hubs into destinations for the AI builder community
  • Partner with Dev Rel and Product to create hands‑on experiences using 's APIs
  • Identify and cultivate community champions and power users as advocates, contributors, speakers, and partners
  • Build relationships with developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners
  • Maintain an authentic presence on X, Linked In, Git Hub, Discord, Hacker News, and emerging communities
  • Create feedback loops with Product and Engineering teams around questions, friction points, use cases, and opportunities
  • Partner with Marketing to amplify community people, projects, demos, and stories
  • Develop scalable community programs beyond individual events
  • Establish goals and measurement for community growth, event participation, API signups, activation, product usage, advocacy, and community‑sourced pipeline
  • Represent  at developer conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other technical community events
Requirements
  • Experience building or managing a developer, technical, startup, or AI community
  • Strong existing relationships within the AI and developer ecosystem, particularly in San Francisco and/or New York
  • Demonstrated ability to create events and programs that technical audiences choose to participate in repeatedly
  • Strong understanding of how developers discover, evaluate, adopt, and advocate for developer tools and APIs
  • Technically fluent enough to have credible conversations with engineers about APIs, AI agents, LLMs, developer infrastructure, and modern AI application development
  • Comfortable getting hands‑on with developer products and learning enough to demonstrate and discuss them authentically
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage developers without sounding like traditional corporate marketing
  • Experience collaborating across Dev Rel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales
  • Highly proactive and comfortable building programs from scratch rather than inheriting an established community playbook
  • Data‑driven approach to community building, with an understanding of how community engagement can translate into product adoption, retention, advocacy, and pipeline
  • Experience in AI infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, or open‑source communities strongly preferred
  • Active participation in developer or AI communities is a plus
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in building and managing developer communities, with a strong focus on AI and technical ecosystems. Capable of creating engaging events and programs that drive community participation and product adoption.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Community Building
  • Event Management
  • API Understanding
  • AI Infrastructure Experience
  • Strong Communication Skills
Hard Skills
  • Community Strategy
  • Event Creation
  • Technical Workshops
  • Hackathons
  • API Knowledge
  • AI Application Development
  • Data-Driven Community Building
  • Developer Tools Familiarity
  • Open-Source Community Engagement
  • Technical Program Development
Soft Skills
  • Relationship Building
  • Proactivity
  • Collaboration
  • Authentic Communication
  • Engagement Skills
Industry Keywords
  • AI Community
  • Developer Ecosystem
  • Startup Community
  • Technical Audience Engagement
  • Community Advocacy
Tools & Technologies
  • APIs
  • X
  • Linked In
  • Git Hub
  • Discord
  • Hacker News
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