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Job Summary:
Deepgram is the leading platform in the Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. As a Senior AI Community Engineer, you will create venues for developers to discover and engage with voice AI, manage events, and cultivate a vibrant developer community to enhance user activation and retention.
Responsibilities:
• Run Events End-to-End: Own the full lifecycle of DevRel events — first-party programs (builders nights, hack nights, virtual dev days), community developer conferences (CFP support, on-site activation), and DevRel's role at partner and industry events. You execute from planning through post-event follow-up and impact measurement.
• Build the SF Presence: Establish and maintain a regular cadence of in-person programming in the Bay Area that makes Deepgram the default gathering point for voice AI builders. Builders nights, workshop series, partner co-hosted events — you design the formats and run them.
• Design for Activation: Every event you run has a clear activation goal. Design hands-on workshop formats that get developers to a first API call during the session. Maintain workshop-ready demo infrastructure — facilitator guides, environment setup, and scaffolding that works for 40 people simultaneously.
• Own Community Health: Manage the health and growth of Deepgram's developer community across Discord, GitHub, Reddit, and social platforms. Run engagement rhythms — office hours, developer spotlights, social listening — and ship monthly friction reports that surface community-sourced issues to Product and Engineering.
• Build the Champions Pipeline: Identify, cultivate, and activate the most engaged developers in the community. Build the data and relationships needed to launch a formal Champions program — you know who your best builders are because you've worked with them, not because they're names on a spreadsheet.
• Measure What Matters: Track event-to-activation conversion as your primary success metric. What percentage of attendees make their first API call within 14 days? Connect your work to developer outcomes — sign-ups, activations, community growth, Champion pipeline — and report on impact, not just activity.
• Scale the Playbook: Document repeatable event playbooks, community engagement patterns, and workshop formats so the team can scale this work beyond one person and one geography.
• Coordinate Across the Business: Work with Field Marketing on trade shows, with Partnerships on co-hosted events, and with the Advocacy team to ensure the content and demos they produce land in front of real developers at your events.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 3–5 years in Developer Relations, Community Management, Technical Event Production, or a related field.
• Experience running developer-facing events and community programs.
• A track record of producing technical events — meetups, hack nights, workshops, conference activations — from concept through post-event measurement.
• Experience growing and sustaining a developer community.
• Understanding of engagement loops, community health metrics, and when to lead vs. when to step back and let the community help itself.
• Technical enough to triage developer questions live, run a workshop on API integrations, and maintain demo infrastructure.
• Comfortable with JavaScript or Python and familiar with API-first development.
• Use AI tools in your daily workflow — for planning, content, research, automation.
• Based in San Francisco with the ability to be Deepgram's consistent in-person presence in the Bay Area.
• ~25% travel beyond the region for conferences and team gatherings.
• Ability to find gaps, design formats, and drive to outcomes without waiting to be handed a plan.
Preferred:
• Experience producing events for 50–200+ developers, including logistics, A/V, catering coordination, and venue management.
• A portfolio of hands-on technical workshops you've designed and facilitated — ideally with measurable activation or completion outcomes.
• Experience with community platforms (Discord, Discourse, Orbit, Common Room) and community analytics.
• Familiarity with WebSockets, WebRTC, or real-time audio.
• Experience working across organizational boundaries to co-produce events or programs with external partners.
• Experience designing or running a developer champions, MVP, or ambassador program.
• Ability to produce event recaps, community spotlights, or short-form social content.
Company:
Deepgram provides a voice artificial intelligence platform for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice applications. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.