Runpod, Inc.

Developer Relations Community Manager

USA (Remote)

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

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive Runpod's developer relations and community strategy to grow adoption, education, and advocacy across open-source ecosystems and conferences.

  • Own end-to-end DevRel and community programs across Discord, Reddit, GitHub, and events.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in developer relations or community management with measurable outcomes.
  • Standout: Deep technical chops and a track record building content, demos, and open-source collaborations.

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
  • Own end-to-end community strategy and day-to-day operations across Discord (primary), Reddit, GitHub Discussions, social channels, and any emerging platforms where Runpod developers congregate
  • Build and manage community programs that drive engagement, retention, and advocacy: ambassador/champions programs, power-user recognition, community challenges, template showcases, and office hours

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

  • The competitive base pay for this position ranges from $130,000- $170,000. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Runpod and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location
  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company- everyone on the team receives stock options — your impact drives our growth, and you share in the upside.
  • 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.
  • $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend- We set you up for success from day one with gear and support to create your ideal workspace

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