Community Lead, Developer Relations
Leads OpenRouter’s developer community across Discord and other channels, scaling moderation, recognition programs, events, automations, and product feedback loops. Requires 3+ years of community or developer-relations experience, hands-on LLM development, and strong communication with developer audiences.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own and operate OpenRouter’s Discord community, including events, giveaways, and challenges.
- Design and scale contributor, helper, recognition, and moderator programs.
- Recruit, onboard, and support community moderators.
- Monitor community sentiment, trends, and feedback about OpenRouter, models, and the broader AI ecosystem.
- Build and maintain automations for community listening and signal detection.
- Create playbooks and resources that enable members to organize OpenRouter events in different locations.
- Extend community engagement across Twitter/X, Reddit, and other social channels.
- Synthesize feedback, bug reports, and sentiment into actionable insights for engineering, product, and design, and communicate outcomes back to the community.
- Partner with marketing and Developer Relations on campaigns, launches, content, and events.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in community management, developer communities, or a related field.
- Experience operating Discord or similar communities at meaningful scale, including events, programs, and moderation.
- Hands-on experience building with large language models and their APIs, including shipping projects and discussing model tradeoffs, harnesses, and techniques with developers.
- Strong written communication across Discord, Twitter/X, and Reddit.
- Experience designing contributor, ambassador, or moderator programs.
- Experience running online events, hackathons, giveaways, or community challenges.
- Scalable, systems-oriented approach to community building.
- Self-directed, entrepreneurial, and comfortable executing independently.
- Comfortable representing OpenRouter publicly.
Nice to Have
- Experience building community-listening automations or lightweight sentiment-tracking tools.
- Experience running or scaling in-person events and meetups across cities or regions.
- Familiarity with OpenRouter as a user.
- Experience creating lightweight content such as threads, clips, memes, or recaps for developer audiences.
- Ability to travel regularly for events; Bay Area location is preferred.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.
- Fully remote team with a culture of autonomy and trust.
Skills
Discord, LLMs, LLM APIs, Twitter/X, Reddit, Community Moderation, Sentiment Analysis, Automation, Hackathons, Event Management, Product Feedback, Social Media
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