Senior AI Community Engineer

About the role

This role is based in San Francisco. You are Deepgram's in-person presence in the Bay Area at meetups, hack nights, AI conferences, and the local builder community. You also execute Deepgram's broader event strategy and execution across the US, with ~25% travel.

Responsibilities

• Run Events End-to-End: Own the full lifecycle of DevRel events — first-party programs (builders nights, hack nights, virtual dev days), community developer conferences (CFP support, on-site activation), and DevRel's role at partner and industry events.
• Build the SF Presence: Establish and maintain a regular cadence of in-person programming in the Bay Area that makes Deepgram the default gathering point for voice AI builders.
• Design for Activation: Every event you run has a clear activation goal. Design hands-on workshop formats that get developers to a first API call during the session. Maintain workshop-ready demo infrastructure — facilitator guides, environment setup, and scaffolding that works for 40 people simultaneously.
• Own Community Health: Manage the health and growth of Deepgram's developer community across Discord, GitHub, Reddit, and social platforms. Run engagement rhythms — office hours, developer spotlights, social listening — and ship monthly friction reports that surface community-sourced issues to Product and Engineering.
• Build the Champions Pipeline: Identify, cultivate, and activate the most engaged developers in the community. Build the data and relationships needed to launch a formal Champions program — you know who your best builders are because you've worked with them, not because they're names on a spreadsheet.
• Measure What Matters: Track event-to-activation conversion as your primary success metric. What percentage of attendees make their first API call within 14 days? Connect your work to developer outcomes — sign-ups, activations, community growth, Champion pipeline — and report on impact, not just activity.
• Scale the Playbook: Document repeatable event playbooks, community engagement patterns, and workshop formats so the team can scale this work beyond one person and one geography.
• Coordinate Across the Business: Work with Field Marketing on trade shows, with Partnerships on co-hosted events, and with the Advocacy team to ensure the content and demos they produce land in front of real developers at your events.

  Requirements

  Experience: 3–5 years in Developer Relations, Community Management, Technical Event Production, or a related field. You've run developer-facing events and community programs — not just attended them.

  • Event Execution: A track record of producing technical events — meetups, hack nights, workshops, conference activations — from concept through post-event measurement. You know the difference between an event that generates buzz and one that generates activations.
  • Community Building: Experience growing and sustaining a developer community. You understand engagement loops, community health metrics, and when to lead vs. when to step back and let the community help itself.
  • Technical Credibility: You don't need to be a Staff engineer, but you need to be technical enough to triage developer questions live, run a workshop on API integrations, and maintain demo infrastructure. Comfortable with JavaScript or Python and familiar with API-first development.
  • AI-First Mindset: You use AI tools in your daily workflow — for planning, content, research, automation. You're building with AI, not just talking about it.
  • Local Presence: Based in San Francisco with the ability to be Deepgram's consistent in-person presence in the Bay Area. ~25% travel beyond the region for conferences and team gatherings.
  • High Autonomy: You find the gaps, design the format, and drive to outcomes without waiting to be handed a plan.

  Preferred / Nice-to-Have

  • Developer Event Production at Scale: Experience producing events for 50–200+ developers, including logistics, A/V, catering coordination, and venue management. Bonus if you've produced hybrid or virtual events.
  • Workshop Design: A portfolio of hands-on technical workshops you've designed and facilitated — ideally with measurable activation or completion outcomes.
  • Community Tooling: Experience with community platforms (Discord, Discourse, Orbit, Common Room) and community analytics. Bonus if you've built custom community tooling or automation.
  • Media & Real-time Protocols: Familiarity with WebSockets, WebRTC, or real-time audio — enough to understand how Deepgram's technology works and explain it to developers in a workshop setting.
  • Partnership Coordination: Experience working across organizational boundaries to co-produce events or programs with external partners.
  • Champions / Ambassador Programs: Experience designing or running a developer champions, MVP, or ambassador program.
  • Content as a Complement: While content isn't your primary output, the ability to produce event recaps, community spotlights, or short-form social content is a plus.