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Salary: USD 180,000 - 220,000 / annual
You.com is building AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems, combining proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval to serve AI agents, applications, and enterprises with real-time, accurate, citation-backed information.
As Developer Community Manager, you will own You.com's developer community strategy and programming across San Francisco and New York City, two of the world's most important AI ecosystems. You will create meaningful engagement opportunities through events, workshops, hackathons, partnerships, online communities, and ongoing programming that drive product adoption, advocacy, and long-term affinity.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establish consistent presence and build relationships with AI engineers, founders, researchers, technical leaders, developer groups, startups, and universities in SF and NYC
- Develop regular high-quality community programming (meetups, technical workshops, hackathons, builder dinners, office hours) that developers genuinely want to attend
- Turn You.com's SF and NYC hubs into destinations for the AI builder community
- Partner with DevRel and Product to create hands-on experiences that reduce friction from community event to first API call
- Identify and cultivate community champions, power users, advocates, and speakers
- Build relationships with complementary developer platforms, AI communities, accelerators, open-source projects, and ecosystem partners
- Maintain authentic presence in online communities where AI developers congregate (X, LinkedIn, GitHub, Discord, Hacker News, emerging platforms)
- Create feedback loops between developer community and Product/Engineering teams, surfacing questions, friction points, use cases, and opportunities
- Partner with Marketing to amplify community stories, projects, and demos
- Develop scalable community programs supporting builders beyond individual events
- Establish clear goals and measurement across community growth, event participation, API signups, activation, product usage, advocacy, and pipeline
- Represent You.com at developer conferences, meetups, hackathons, and technical events
Requirements:
- Experience building or managing a developer, technical, startup, or AI community
- Strong existing relationships within 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
- Technical fluency sufficient 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; ability to engage developers without sounding like traditional corporate marketing
- Experience collaborating across DevRel, Product, Marketing, Partnerships, and Sales
- Highly proactive; comfortable building programs from scratch rather than inheriting established playbooks
- Data-driven approach to community building, understanding how community engagement translates to 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
