Sentient Labs · 3 months ago
Developer Relations & Ecosystem Growth Lead
US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expSentient is seeking a Developer Relations & Ecosystem Growth Lead to build and nurture their developer community and experience. This role involves advocating for developers, creating educational content, and shaping the developer journey while collaborating closely with product and engineering teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Content CreatorsSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and lead our developer relations strategy, from positioning to execution in partnership with founders and product leads
Build and engage a global developer community across GitHub, Discord, Twitter/X, Stack Overflow, and beyond
Foster an inclusive, curious, and ambitious builder culture around Sentient’s open-source initiatives and APIs
Own the developer journey: from first contact to successful integration and ongoing contribution
Respond to questions, troubleshoot issues, and guide early adopters through onboarding, SDKs, and technical integrations
Collect feedback from developers and relay it to product and engineering to shape roadmap decisions
Write clear, helpful technical documentation, tutorials, and API guides
Build sample projects and demos to showcase use cases and inspire innovation
Share insights through blog posts, livestreams, podcasts, talks, and community forums
Represent Sentient at conferences, meetups, online events, and hackathons
Grow Sentient’s developer voice and visibility by 'building in public' and contributing to the open-source AI conversation
Encourage and support contributions to our public repos and tools
Shape the foundations of DevRel at Sentient, including tooling, KPIs, and community architecture
As we scale, help hire and lead a growing DevRel team (e.g., advocates, community managers, technical writers)
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience in Developer Relations, Technical Advocacy, or developer-focused Product/Community roles
Strong technical fluency, you've worked with AI/ML tooling, trained models, or built with APIs and open-source systems
Solid coding ability (e.g. Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar); capable of building demos, debugging issues, and contributing to repos
Experience launching or scaling developer ecosystems, especially around APIs, SDKs, or platforms
A natural educator and communicator, you can write great docs, explain complex concepts, and make devs feel seen
Strong community instincts, you've been a forum moderator, GitHub maintainer, Discord admin, or just someone who shows up for the devs
High ownership and bias for action, you see a need, you build the solution
Deep belief in open-source AI and a decentralized future for intelligence
Preferred
Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects in the AI space
Background in LLM infrastructure, agent frameworks, or training/inference pipelines
Familiarity with modern AI stacks (e.g., LangChain, Transformers, Hugging Face, BentoML, etc.)
Prior experience launching ambassador programs, grants, or community onboarding pipelines
Public speaking experience or a history of creating dev-facing content that's actually useful
Company
Sentient Labs
Sentient's mission is to ensure that Artificial General Intelligence is open-source and not controlled by any single entity.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$85M2024-07-02Seed· $85M
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