Developer Relations Evangelist

About the role:

We're hiring a Developer Relations Evangelist with a focus on community to be the connective tissue between AssemblyAI and the developer ecosystem building with voice AI. You'll maintain a strong presence in SF while also being on the road - sponsoring meetups, live demoing the API constantly, and proselytizing the product directly to developers in the field.

This person is technical by nature, lives and breathes the SF Bay Area developer scene, and turns relationships, content, and events into a steady drumbeat of momentum for AssemblyAI. This is a high-visibility, high-ownership role that reports into Marketing and works closely with our founding team, growth engineering, field marketing, and product.

What You'll Do:

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

What You'll Need:

• 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.

Bonus Points

• 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.

Pay Transparency:

AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage, and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefit, and other reward opportunities we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level, qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

The provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range which will be communicated to candidates throughout the interview process.

Salary range: $130,000 - $190,000