Developer Relations Evangelist

AssemblyAI•San Francisco, CA

2d•$130,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

AssemblyAI is seeking a Developer Relations Evangelist with a focus on community to act as a liaison between the company and the developer ecosystem building with voice AI. This role requires a strong presence in San Francisco, with significant travel for sponsoring meetups, live API demonstrations, and engaging directly with developers. The ideal candidate is technically proficient, deeply familiar with the San Francisco Bay Area developer scene, and skilled at leveraging relationships, content, and events to drive momentum for AssemblyAI. This is a high-visibility, high-ownership position reporting to Marketing, with close collaboration with the founding team, growth engineering, field marketing, and product teams.

Requirements

2–3+ years of experience in developer relations, developer evangelism, developer marketing, technical community management, or a closely related role at a developer-first or API company.
A genuinely technical foundation — you can build a working demo with an API, debug a snippet on stage, and have credible conversations with engineers and AI builders. Prior hands-on engineering experience is a plus.
A demonstrated track record of growing a developer community or creator network: real numbers, real programs, real outputs you can point to.
Strong content instincts — you can write a tutorial, edit a demo video, post a thread that lands, and tell when a piece of content will actually move the needle vs. die quietly.
Comfort and enthusiasm being in front of people — speaking at meetups, hosting events, going to other people’s events, live demoing in front of a room, building relationships in real life. You’re energized by being on the road, not drained by it.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and excited to be a regular presence in our SF office, at events across the city, and traveling to where developers are.
Genuine excitement about voice AI, AI agents, and the surge of vibe coders and AI-native builders shipping products today.

Nice To Haves

Existing relationships in the SF AI builder, vibe coder, or voice AI ecosystem.
Prior experience running hackathons, developer conferences, or large-scale community programs.
A personal presence (technical YouTube, X, newsletter, GitHub) that shows you already build in public.
Experience working closely with founders and small, fast-moving marketing teams.

Responsibilities

Own the AssemblyAI developer community
Build, grow, and nurture our developer community across Reddit, social channels, and in-person touchpoints
Be the proactive face of AssemblyAI in conversations across X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Discord, Hacker News, and other surfaces where voice AI builders gather
Monitor competitor and category mentions, jump into relevant conversations, and surface insights back to product and marketing
Develop programs that turn developers into long-term advocates—ambassador programs, beta cohorts, recognition for great builds
Drive a creator and influencer engine
Co-create demos, tutorials, and short-form videos with creators and partners, with a particular focus on our Voice Agent API
Run hands-on builds yourself: ship demos, sample apps, and viral technical content that show what’s possible with AssemblyAI
Surface potential influencers to the growth team — and partner with technical content creators (YouTube, X, TikTok, newsletters) who can showcase how easy it is to build with our APIs
Live demo our realtime APIs in the field
Be on the road 40%+ of the time at meetups, hackathons, partner events, and developer gatherings — live demoing our realtime APIs in front of builders
Treat every event as a chance to show, not tell: get our models in front of developers’ eyes and ears so they can hear the quality of our transcription and voice agents firsthand
Build a rolling library of demo scenarios, sample apps, and “wow moments” you can pull off-the-shelf at any event with minimal setup
Power developer community events (in person)
Serve as boots-on-the-ground execution support for AssemblyAI’s SF developer event motion — meetups, hackathons, third-party event sponsorships, etc
Represent AssemblyAI at other meetups and developer events across the US — meeting builders, identifying partners, and bringing back intel
Help conceive and execute high-leverage community moments (e.g., vibe coding voice agent hackathons, partner collabs, launch-week activations)
Contribute to launches and campaigns
Partner with product marketing to amplify launches with creator content, community activations, and developer-first storytelling
Generate community signal that informs positioning, messaging, and roadmap decisions
Build relationships with adjacent ecosystem partners (LLM providers, voice frameworks, AI dev tool companies) to unlock co-marketing and collab content