Developer Relations Community Manager at Runpod, Inc. | USA | $130K/yr – $170K/yr

Developer Relations Community Manager

USA (Remote)

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

Posted 5 months ago

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