Developer Community Manager

About HeyGen

At HeyGen our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade visual content has become the preferred method of information creation consumption and retention. But the ability to create such content in particular videos continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach captivate and inspire audiences.
Learn more at. Visit our Mission and Culture doc here.

The role

Were hiring a Developer Community Manager to build and run the Hyperframes and HeyGen for Developers community across hackathons online communities and meetups. You will be the connective tissue between the developers building on HeyGen and the team building HeyGens APIs and Hyperframes (which passed 20K stars on GitHub in 2 months).

Youll set up the programs playbooks and culture of our developer community. Youll build in our high-growth fast-moving environment figuring out the right mix of formats and where to put energy.

What youll do

• Build a hackathon playbook. Own HeyGen-hosted co-hosted virtual and sponsored hackathons end to end.
• Plan and run meetups. Organizing the format venue speakers partners logistics promotion and follow-up.
• Own our community channels. Keep Discord and Reddit active welcoming and high-signal.
• Build a Developer advocacy program. Identify emerging advocates to build relationships with them highlight their builds and design the framework for a developer Ambassador program.
• Feed insights back to the team. Capture pain points feature requests and docs gaps and get them to Product and Engineering.
• Measure what matters. Track and report on community health so we know whats working.

What youll bring

• 3 years in developer community DevRel developer marketing or technical community management for a developer-facing or API-first product
• A track record of running successful Hackathons and meetups
• Experience growing online communities (Discord Reddit GitHub)
• Enough technical fluency to earn developers trust. You can read API docs make an API call build a small demo and hold your own in a conversation about SDKs webhooks and rate limits.
• A strong operators instinct you run logistics flawlessly and sweat the details that make events and communities feel good.
• Ability to be on-site and travel for events
• A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and a fast-moving early-stage environment and is comfortable owning outcomes without a playbook

Bonus points

• You have existing relationships in the AI / builder / hackathon scene in SF or beyond.
• Familiarity with AI video avatars or generative media.
• Comfortable on a mic hosting MCing or speaking at events.