Community Lead, Developer Relations

The role

You will own and run OpenRouter's Discord and grow the company's presence across Twitter/X, Reddit, and other community channels. You will build scalable community programs, manage a moderator team, and synthesize community feedback for product and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Own and run OpenRouter's Discord end to end.
• Design and run Discord-specific events, giveaways, and challenges.
• Own and scale recognition programs for contributors and helpers.
• Recruit, onboard, and support a team of community moderators.
• Actively listen to community sentiment and report it back to the team.
• Build and maintain automations for community sentiment and trends.
• Partner with the events team to build playbooks for in-person community events.
• Extend community energy to Twitter/X and other socials.
• Synthesize community feedback and bug reports into actionable insights for product and engineering.
• Partner with marketing and DevRel on community-facing campaigns and launches.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in community management, developer community, or a closely related role.
• Experience running Discord communities (or similar) at meaningful scale, including events, programs, and moderation.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs and their APIs.
• Can read and write example code.
• Can credibly discuss model tradeoffs, harnesses, and techniques with working developers.
• Personable, humble, and highly accessible.
• Terminally online in the spaces where AI developers hang out.
• Strong written communication with a natural, human voice across Discord, Twitter/X, and Reddit.
• Background designing contributor, ambassador, or moderator programs.
• Experience running online events, hackathons, giveaways, or community challenges.
• A 1:n mindset.
• Self-directed and entrepreneurial.

Nice to have

• Experience building automations or lightweight tooling for community listening and sentiment tracking.
• Experience running or scaling in-person community events and meetups across cities or regions.
• Familiarity with OpenRouter as a user.
• Experience creating light content (threads, clips, memes, recaps) that resonates with developer audiences.

Benefits

• Work at the center of the AI infrastructure stack.
• High ownership and autonomy.
• Opportunity to shape a foundational function at a fast-growing company.
• Fully remote team with a culture of autonomy and trust.
• Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.

About the company

OpenRouter is the open AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers. They power advanced AI teams by providing flexibility to move fast and scale confidently.