AI Community Manager

Snorkel AI•San Francisco, CA

8d•$100,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Snorkel AI is seeking a Frontier AI Community Manager to build genuine, recurring connections between Snorkel and individuals at the world's top labs who are building frontier AI, including researchers, post-training and evals leads, and data leaders. This is a strategic role focused on designing and executing formats that earn the audience's time and trust, such as small dinners, researcher-only working sessions, and hackathons. The Community Manager will cultivate an ongoing community surface to keep these individuals connected to Snorkel and each other between events. This role involves constant prototyping, writing the playbook as you go, and is based in San Francisco.

Requirements

3–5 years of experience in community, developer relations, technical event programming, experiential marketing, or similar roles targeting technical audiences (researchers, engineers, or sophisticated technical operators).
Prior experience running hackathons or technical jams.
Existing relationships in the SF AI/research community.
Technical fluency to read papers and structure programming around them.
A track record of building or growing a community/program from scratch (e.g., running a successful meetup, producing executive/researcher dinners, building a developer community, or running a hackathon series).
Strong understanding of what makes a technical event high-signal versus a sponsor-driven slog.
Comfort and credibility with researchers and AI lab employees, with the ability to read the room, recognize audience priorities, and earn trust quickly.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in 1:1 outreach (DMs and emails).
Self-direction and ownership, with comfort in building strategy as you go and managing programs end-to-end.
Familiarity with CRM tools (Salesforce or equivalent) and a habit of tracking program outcomes.
Genuine interest in AI and a desire to contribute to a company shaping AI development.

Nice To Haves

You're an AI insider with taste.
You're plugged into where the conversation actually happens — X, TBPN, technical Discords, the right group chats.
You can tell the difference between someone working on harnesses and someone working on environments.
You've been to enough bad vendor dinners to have strong views on what separates a high-signal gathering from a forgettable one.
You're comfortable being told 'we're not sure what works yet — go figure it out.'

Responsibilities

Design and run formats tailored for frontier-lab audiences, including topical dinners, paper discussions, researcher-to-researcher working sessions, and focused workshops on data development and post-training.
Develop discussion frames, agendas, pre-reads, and seating arrangements to ensure high-signal gatherings.
Identify and recruit the right individuals by understanding their work at various labs and reaching out through direct outreach, mutual connections, and presence in relevant communities.
Evaluate, design, and run hackathons, evals jams, or similar technical formats where Snorkel's work on data is naturally integrated.
Identify engaged researchers and lab operators, deepen relationships, and develop them into speakers, contributors, and trusted voices.
Represent Snorkel in community channels such as X, TBPN-adjacent internet corners, technical Substacks, Discords, and GitHub, amplifying community members' work.
Act as a feedback loop by bringing community debates, frustrations, and excitements back into product, research, and marketing.
Run programs as experiments, track key signals like return attendance, depth of conversation, follow-up meetings, and downstream relationships/pipeline, and retire underperforming formats.