Developer Relations & Ecosystem Growth Lead

Sentient • San Francisco, CA

93d

About The Position

As our first Developer Relations & Ecosystem Growth Lead, you’ll own and grow our developer community and experience from the ground up. If you’re excited about being the bridge between breakthrough AI infrastructure and the developers building the next generation of LLM agents, open-source tooling, and decentralized AI systems, this is your role. You’ll wear multiple hats: advocate, educator, community architect, content creator, and ecosystem strategist. You’ll inspire and empower developers to build with Sentient’s platform, while ensuring their feedback and needs are tightly looped into our product, research, and protocol design. This is a zero-to-one role, ideally suited for someone who’s technical, entrepreneurial, and passionate about working in the open, someone who wants to define how AI devs interact with an entirely new stack.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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).

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees