Developer Community Manager

YOU.com · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · 3 weeks ago

Work mode: Hybrid
Category: Developer relations
Salary: USD 180,000 – 220,000 / year

Developer community manager who owns You.com's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York — running meetups, workshops, hackathons, and online engagement to drive adoption of its AI search APIs. Requires strong AI/dev-ecosystem relationships and technical fluency with APIs, LLMs, and developer tools.

About Us

At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.

Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows. We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.

Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact. Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.

About the Role

In this role, you will create meaningful reasons for developers to engage with You.com and with each other — through events, workshops, hackathons, partnerships, online communities, and ongoing programming. You will build strong local communities in San Francisco and New York while helping turn those relationships into product adoption, advocacy, and long-term affinity for You.com.

You will work closely with DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales to connect our developer community directly to the products we are building and the problems developers are trying to solve.

This role is for someone who genuinely enjoys being part of technical communities, knows how to bring the right people together, and understands that a great developer community isn't measured by how many people show up — it's measured by what they build, whether they come back, and whether they bring others with them.

Responsibilities

Own You.com's developer community strategy and programming in San Francisco and New York City, establishing a consistent presence in two of the world's most important AI ecosystems
Build relationships with AI engineers, founders, researchers, technical leaders, developer groups, startups, universities, and other influential members of the local developer ecosystem
Develop a regular cadence of high-quality community programming, including meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours, and other formats that developers genuinely want to attend
Turn You.com's SF and NYC hubs into destinations for the AI builder community, creating recurring opportunities for developers to learn, build, and connect
Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands-on experiences that get developers building with You.com's APIs, reducing the distance between attending a community event and making a first API call
Identify and cultivate community champions and power users who can become advocates, contributors, speakers, and long-term partners for You.com
Build relationships with complementary developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners to expand our reach
Maintain an authentic presence in the online communities where AI developers spend their time, including X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, and emerging communities
Create feedback loops between the developer community and our Product and Engineering teams, surfacing recurring questions, friction points, use cases, and product opportunities
Partner with Marketing to amplify the people, projects, demos, and stories emerging from our community
Develop scalable community programs that allow You.com to support builders beyond individual events
Establish clear goals and measurement across community growth, event participation, API signups, activation, product usage, advocacy, and community-sourced pipeline
Represent You.com at developer conferences, meetups, hackathons, and other technical community events

Qualifications

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 DevRel, 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

Our salary bands are structured based on a combination of geographic tiers and internal leveling. Compensation is determined by multiple factors assessed during the interview process, with the final offer reflecting these considerations.

Salary Band

$180,000—$220,000 USD

Company Perks:

Hubs in San Francisco and New York City offering regular in-person gatherings and co-working sessions
Flexible PTO with U.S. holidays observed and an end of year shutdown in December to rest and recharge*
A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for dependents*
Function Health membership
12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US*
401k program, 3% match - vested immediately!*
$500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date*
$600 technology stipend to support a portion of our hybrid/remote team's cell phone and internet expenses*
$1,200 per year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals*
The chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research

*Benefits eligibility varies by employment type and tenure.

You.com participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. (English/Spanish: E-Verify Participation/Right to Work) We are also an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. Please let us know if you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process.

Beware of Recruiting Scams:

You.com will only contact you through official @You.com email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

Use of AI Tools During Our Hiring Process:

At You.com, we're thoughtful about how we use AI throughout our business — including our hiring process.

During certain stages of the interview process, we may use AI-powered tools to assist with administrative tasks such as scheduling, note-taking, transcription, or summarizing interview discussions. These tools are intended to support our interviewers by improving accuracy and efficiency — they do not make hiring decisions or replace human judgment.

All employment decisions are made by our recruiting team and hiring managers based on a holistic review of each candidate and applicable evaluation criteria.

If AI-assisted note-taking or transcription may be used during your interview, we will notify you in advance. If you prefer not to participate in an interview that uses these tools, you may opt out by informing your recruiter before your scheduled interview. We will work with you to provide an alternative interview experience where reasonably practicable.