Community Programs Manager

Cast AI

3d • Remote

About The Position

Cast AI is seeking a Community Programs Manager to own the programs that turn their community into a real movement. The role involves supporting two products: Cast AI for cloud-native infrastructure and Kimchi, an agentic AI coding product. The ideal candidate will be responsible for scaling programs, running effective events, and making practitioners feel recognized and connected. This is a hands-on operations role requiring program design, relationship building with community members, logistics management, budget handling, and cross-regional coordination. The position reports into the Ecosystem Growth team and collaborates closely with Community, DevRel, Demand Gen, and the wider growth function.

Requirements

• 3 to 5 years in a community, DevRel, Event, or field marketing role.
• Hands-on experience organizing trade shows, conferences, or community events, including booth management, vendor coordination, and on-site execution.
• Experience running community programs such as advocacy, ambassador, or certification.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to run multiple events and programs at once.
• Comfortable working with vendors, negotiating contracts, and managing logistics across regions.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• A self-starter who thrives on ownership and works well in a distributed, fast-moving team.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Agentic AI or Cloud-Native industries.
• AI-Native approach: building workflows, automations, and using agentic tooling in their work daily.

Responsibilities

• Community advocacy and recognition: Supporting and driving programs that celebrate the practitioners who show up for our community, and keep them engaged over time.
• Ambassador and certification: The path for community members to go deeper with us through content, advocacy, and certification, across both internal and external tracks.
• Community events: Our presence at third-party conferences and community events like KCD, DevOpsDays, SREcon, CloudNativeCon, and similar, end-to-end.
• Regional meetups and socials: Community meetups and social events across EMEA, APAC, AMER, and LATAM, in a repeatable format that keeps our key cities' calendars full.
• Community Experience & Customer swag: A program that gets the right thing to customers at the right moment in their journey.
• New programs as we grow: As Kimchi scales, you'll help launch new community programs for it. Expect this to expand, and expect to shape it.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Flexible, remote-first global environment
• Equity options
• 10% of work time on personal projects or self-improvement
• Learning budget for professional and personal development - including access to international conferences and courses that elevate your skills.
• Team-building budget and company events to connect with your colleagues.
• Equipment budget to ensure you have everything you need.
• Extra days off to help maintain a healthy work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed