[Hiring] Community Lead, Developer Relations @OpenRouter

Role Description

We're looking for a Community Lead to become the heartbeat of OpenRouter's developer community. You will be the person our community knows by name and recognizes in person, the one who is always around, always listening, and always making the community a better place to be.

OpenRouter's Discord is already one of the largest AI communities anywhere, with over 50,000 members, hundreds of threads, and thousands of chats every week. It is THE place where people talk about models, harnesses, new techniques, and projects.

You are a community person first and a developer at heart. You've built with LLMs, understand what AI builders care about, and are fluent in the culture of the spaces where they gather. You will own this Discord and grow our presence across Twitter/X, Reddit, and other community channels.

This is a hands-on, founding community role. In the first 3 months, you will be the primary steward of the community, with the opportunity to shape how the function scales over time. You'll work closely with our DevRel and marketing teams as a complementary, community-focused counterpart.

Everything you do in this role should be 1:n. Instead of hosting one meetup, you create the event kit that lets a community member in any city run their own. Instead of answering the same question ten times, you build the automation that surfaces it once. Instead of personally moderating every channel, you recruit and equip a mod team that scales without you.

The focus is digital first, roughly an 80/20 split between online community work and in-person community events to start. This role is not about selling or broadcasting. It is about presence, trust, and making OpenRouter's community a place developers genuinely want to be.

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.
• Personable, humble, and highly accessible.
• Terminally online in the best way.
• 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.
• Comfortable being publicly visible as a representative of OpenRouter.
• The ideal candidate is based in the Bay Area, or has the ability to travel for events regularly.

Requirements

• 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 as enterprises define how they adopt LLMs.
• High ownership and autonomy to define how community scales at OpenRouter.
• 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.