Founding Developer Relations Lead

Runway ML
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 270,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Collaboration","Public speaking","Problem-solving"]

Lead the developer relations program for Runway ML, owning the end-to-end developer funnel from awareness to activation, and building a thriving community of creative technologists around generative video and image models. You’ll design onboarding, drive API adoption, produce developer content, run events, and serve as the primary external advocate while feeding insights back to product and engineering.

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Runway ML
Runway ML
3 months ago

Founding Developer Relations Lead

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Job Summary

Lead the developer relations program for Runway ML, owning the end-to-end developer funnel from awareness to activation, and building a thriving community of creative technologists around generative video and image models. You’ll design onboarding, drive API adoption, produce developer content, run events, and serve as the primary external advocate while feeding insights back to product and engineering.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own and optimize the Developer Funnel from awareness to activation, driving adoption and engagement across the API user base using a data-informed engagement strategy
  • •Design onboarding experiences to accelerate zero-to-first API build success for creative developers
  • •Manage the transition from self-serve to enterprise API relationships, identifying high-potential developers and routing them to appropriate engagement tracks
  • •Track, analyze, and report developer funnel metrics and API engagement using BI tools and data
  • •Lead hackathons, sponsorships, and developer events end-to-end and build a thriving community of creative technologists and developers

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 270,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a highly technical, community-facing role – ideally within AI/ML, creative tech, or a research-adjacent organization
  • •Deep, hands-on familiarity with generative video and image models; you've built with them, you experiment constantly, and you follow this space closely
  • •Comfort operating in a 0-to-1 environment – you've built programs, communities, or developer motions from scratch and know how to create structure and momentum without a playbook to follow
  • •Strong engineering fundamentals – you can write code, build demos independently, debug API integrations, and speak credibly with technical audiences
  • •A genuine creative sensibility – you understand the needs of designers, filmmakers, and creative technologists, not just traditional software engineers, and you move fluidly between those worlds
Experience:5+ yearsGenerative AIAI/MLCreative techDeveloper relations
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipCollaborationPublic speakingProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:APIsBI toolsDemos

Company Brief

Runway ML
Provides generative AI tools and a creative platform for creators and studios to generate, edit, and collaborate on images, video, and other media using state-of-the-art machine learning models.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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