About the job
Zyphra - Pioneering Artificial Intelligence Solutions
Located in the heart of San Francisco, California, Zyphra is a cutting-edge artificial intelligence company dedicated to developing innovative solutions that transform industries.
About the Role:
As the Developer Relations Lead, you will take charge of nurturing and expanding the developer community surrounding Zyphra's open-source models and our AI agent, Maia. You will serve as the primary ambassador of Zyphra to the global developer ecosystem, enhancing our presence on platforms like GitHub, Discord, and X, as well as at key industry events. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and community engagement; you will be the trusted figure that developers look to for guidance and collaboration.
With an emerging community already forming around our models, your mission is to identify, accelerate, and organize this community, establishing it as one of the most vibrant open-source AI communities in the industry. You will play a pivotal role on our Go-To-Market (GTM) team, collaborating closely with our research, engineering, and product teams to align our developer initiatives with our overall business strategy.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
Leading the development and growth of Zyphra’s developer community across all public channels, including Discord, GitHub, and Hugging Face, while enhancing our brand visibility on X, LinkedIn, and other technical platforms.
Representing Zyphra at major AI conferences, developer summits, open-source events, academic forums, and community meetups, where you will speak, demo, and forge relationships that broaden our influence and credibility.
Tracking and driving GitHub adoption metrics across our open-source repositories, focusing on stars, forks, issues, pull requests, and active contributor engagement to measure community health.
Serving as the primary conduit for feedback between our developer community and the research and product teams, synthesizing insights on developer experiences and obstacles to identify opportunities for enhanced adoption.
Creating and implementing a community growth strategy that transforms each model release into sustained developer engagement through launch activities, contributor programs, ambassador networks, and structured onboarding for newcomers.
Promoting API consumption and model utilization, ensuring developers understand the unique capabilities of Zyphra’s models and agent, and how to onboard effectively.
Generating and curating essential technical content for the community, such as integration guides, benchmark comparisons, use-case demos, and deployment walkthroughs.

