Founding DevRel Lead - USA

Responsibilities

• Own the developer relations strategy end to end to grow the awareness and adoption of Inworld by new developers, and ensure every developer on Inworld has an incredible experience.
• Collaborate with product and GTM to engage new and existing customers on best practices and integrations, synthesize learnings and develop our technical surfaces
• Build and ship integration examples, reference architectures, and sample apps that demonstrate Inworld's TTS, STT, LLM Router, and Realtime API in real-world contexts
• Create technical content that resonates with developers: tutorials, blog posts, video walkthroughs, conference talks, live demos, quickstarts and guides
• Represent Inworld as a public figure in online forums, events, and leadership meetings, while developing organic growth of developer communities
• Represent Inworld at conferences, hackathons, and developer events including speaking, demoing, and running workshops
• Work closely with GTM and Product to surface developer feedback and advocate for the developer experience inside the company
• Define and track meaningful metrics: community engagement, content performance, time-to-first-integration, and other indicators you define.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a closely adjacent technical role
• Strong hands-on coding ability, you write and ship real integration code, not just demos
• Hands-on with AI native development. You build with coding agents and copilots, have opinions on which tools win for which tasks
• Deep familiarity with AI/ML APIs and the real workflows around LLMs, speech, and streaming
• Exceptional technical communication skills: you can write a clear tutorial, give a compelling conference talk, and explain a latency tradeoff on a live stream
• Bonus Qualifications
• Experience with voice AI, TTS, STT, or realtime audio
• Prior experience at a high-growth startup in a founding DevRel capacity
• Active presence in developer communities, open source contributions, a following, a newsletter, whatever form it takes
• In-office location: Mountain View, California, United States. Candidates must be based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate (you will be working on-site in our South Bay office a few days a week).
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $220,000 - $290,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Benefits

Additional Information

About Inworld Inworld is a research lab of top researchers and engineers, building the world's top-ranked realtime voice models. Today our models are the #1 ranked realtime voice models in the world. They are used to power the largest consumer-facing AI applications available, across categories like health, fitness, learning, therapy, companions, customer experience and media; representing 100s of millions of end users. Our work spans areas like research and development of state-of-the-art models, optimizing realtime inference, and creating best-in-class APIs and products that allow developers to engage their users. We've raised more than $125M from Lightspeed, Section 32, Kleiner Perkins, Microsoft's M12 venture fund, Founders Fund, Meta and Stanford, among others. Our technology has powered experiences from companies such as NVIDIA, Microsoft Xbox, Niantic, Logitech Streamlabs, Wishroll, Little Umbrella and Bible Chat. We've also been recognized by CB Insights as one of the 100 most promising AI companies globally and have been named one of LinkedIn's Top 10 Startups in the USA.

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