Developer Relations Community Manager

San Francisco, CA (Remote)

$130K/yr – $170K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Runpod's developer relations program to educate, engage, and grow adoption among AI/ML developers across inference, training, and deployment.

  • Own the developer relations program, content, and events to boost adoption and advocacy.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in developer relations with production Python experience.
  • Standout: Proven content creation and conference talks with measurable reach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own Runpod's developer relations strategy: define the programs, content, and engagement motions that drive developer adoption, education, and advocacy
  • Create high-quality technical content: tutorials, guides, sample applications, benchmarks, integration walkthroughs, and video demos that help developers succeed on the Runpod platform
  • Build and maintain reference architectures, sample repos, and integration examples that demonstrate Runpod's capabilities across inference, training, fine-tuning, and agent workloads
  • Represent Runpod at developer conferences, meetups, and community events (AI/ML conferences, KubeCon, NVIDIA GTC, PyCon, etc.); deliver technical talks and workshops
  • Engage actively in the open-source AI ecosystem: contribute to relevant projects, build integrations with popular frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, LangChain, etc.), and cultivate relationships with maintainers
  • Build relationships with AI/ML influencers, YouTubers, technical bloggers, and educators who reach Runpod's target audience; support and enable their content creation efforts
  • Collaborate with Content and Marketing to align technical content with product launches, campaigns, and positioning
  • Contribute to Runpod's documentation and developer experience by identifying gaps, writing docs, and working with Product to improve onboarding flows

Requirements

  • 5+ years of combined experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, community management, or a hybrid role at a developer-focused company
  • Strong technical skills: you can write production-quality code (Python required; Go, Rust, or TypeScript a plus), build demos, and debug developer issues in real time
  • Demonstrated ability to create compelling technical content: blog posts, tutorials, conference talks, video content, or open-source contributions with measurable reach
  • Deep familiarity with the AI/ML ecosystem: model training and inference workflows, popular frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM), containerized deployments, and GPU compute concepts
  • Deep fluency with Discord as a community platform, including bots, roles, channel architecture, and moderation tooling; experience managing communities of 10K+ members
  • Experience building community or developer programs from scratch (ambassador programs, hackathons, user groups, content pipelines) with measurable results
  • Strong public speaking skills with a track record of delivering technical talks at conferences, meetups, or webinars
  • Strong written communication with the ability to move between developer language and business context; equally comfortable writing a deployment tutorial and a product feedback summary
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams in a fast-moving environment
  • Comfort operating in a remote-first environment with minimal structure and high autonomy
  • Successful completion of a background check

Preferred

  • Experience at a cloud infrastructure, GPU compute, or developer tools company (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Lambda, CoreWeave, Modal, Replicate, Hugging Face, Vercel, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience deploying and optimizing ML models in production: inference optimization, cold start reduction, model serving, or distributed training
  • Existing presence and following in the AI/ML developer community (Twitter/X, YouTube, blog, GitHub)
  • Experience managing or contributing to open-source communities
  • Familiarity with serverless compute, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and cloud-native deployment patterns
  • Track record of building community-sourced content pipelines that feed into marketing or documentation efforts
  • Experience at a Series A through C stage company where you built DevRel or community from early stage

Benefits

  • Generous medical, dental & vision plans
  • Flexible PTO- take the time you need to recharge
  • Most roles are remote work first with an inclusive, collaborative teams utilizing slack as the main form of internal communication
  • Join a passionate team on the cutting edge of AI infrastructure — where culture, learning, and ownership are at the heart of how we scale.

Runpod

Runpod provides cost-effective GPU cloud computing services for training, deploying, and scaling AI models. With GPU Cloud, users can spin up an on-demand GPU instance in a few clicks. With Serverless, users can create autoscaling API endpoints for scaling inference on their models in production.Runpod was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New Jersey.

Founded in 2022
San Francisco, California, USA
84 employees (6 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.5M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.9%
Direct
55.2%
Referral
4.3%
Social
2.1%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~84

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
5 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$22M
Last Raise
Seed, 2 years ago