Head of Developer Relations

About the role

This is an experienced individual contributor role and our first dedicated developer-facing hire. You'll write the technical thought leadership content, developer documentation, and performance benchmarks that show how Parasail performs and why it's built the way it is. You'll grow our presence in the communities developers already inhabit and bring what you hear back into engineering, product, and GTM.

What You'll Do

• Own developer-facing education and build developer trust.
• Own developer documentation and educational content, including tutorials, guides, demos, and long-form technical content (deep dives, benchmarks, visual essays) that establishes Parasail as a thought leader in inference.
• Partner closely with engineering and product on in-product DX and activation.
• Grow a thriving developer community.
• Grow Parasail's developer community through consistent, high-quality touchpoints, including Discord, regular office hours, and an active presence in external communities (r/LocalLLaMA, Hacker News, target external Discords).
• Synthesize what you hear into a feedback loop that shapes engineering, product, and GTM priorities.
• Increase developer brand awareness through industry events. Host and represent Parasail at hackathons, conferences, meetups, and other developer events.

What you’ll bring

• 6+ years of combined software engineering, DevRel, and technical content experience; open to exceptional candidates with less experience if your portfolio is unusually strong
• Strong technical fluency in inference, model serving, or adjacent infrastructure
• Prior experience launching or growing a developer community
• You've built AI workflows into your craft and it shows up in what you ship
• Comfort working in ambiguity; you'd rather walk in with a thesis and adjust than wait for direction
• Nice to have:
• Relationships with AI builders, founders, and ML practitioners; you're already in the rooms (online and in person) where this audience lives
• A signature piece of public work that's traveled: a popular newsletter, a long-form series that gets cited, a book, talks at conferences or meetups, or comparable signal
• A track record of going deep on technically demanding problems through ML infra, backend or distributed systems work, open-source contributions, or a portfolio of technical writing, projects, and community work that demonstrates the same dept

What we offer

• Competitive base + meaningful equity
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• 401(k), Family Planning (Fertility)
• Opportunity to work at the frontier of AI infrastructure

Company Values

Parasail is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. Parasail is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Career Path

Parasail offers a competitive base salary and meaningful equity. We also provide comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, generous PTO and company holidays, and a 401(k) plan. We believe in offering opportunities to work at the frontier of AI infrastructure and support your professional growth.