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Community Lead, Developer Relations

OpenRouter· Engineering
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Hybrid (Remote (US))$200k - $240kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

OpenRouter is seeking a Community Lead to become the heartbeat of its developer community, owning Discord, expanding presence across social channels, and shaping scalable community programs. This is a hands-on, founding role focused on presence, trust, and enabling developers to engage with OpenRouter.

Responsibilities

  • Discord Stewardship: Own and run OpenRouter's Discord end to end. Design and run Discord-specific events, giveaways, and challenges that keep the community engaged and growing.
  • Community Programs: Own and scale recognition programs for contributors and helpers, including special Discord roles and new programs as the community grows.
  • Moderation & Mod Team: Recruit, onboard, and support a team of community moderators. Design non-monetary recognition and benefits for moderators.
  • Community Pulse: Act as the full-time ears of the company, listening to community sentiment and reporting back continuously.
  • Community Automations: Build and maintain automations that surface sentiment, trends, and signals at scale.
  • In-Person Community Events: Partner with events team to scale community events by creating playbooks and resources for local launches.
  • Social Presence: Extend community energy to Twitter/X and other platforms, engaging developers where they are.
  • Product Feedback Loop: Synthesize community feedback into actionable insights for engineering, product, and design, and close the loop with the community when input ships.
  • Collaboration: Partner with marketing and DevRel on campaigns, launches, and content.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in community management, developer community, or related role.
  • Experience running Discord communities at meaningful scale, including events, programs, and moderation.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs and their APIs; able to discuss model tradeoffs and techniques with developers.
  • Personable, humble, and highly accessible.
  • Terminally online with knowledge of current AI developer spaces and mood.
  • Strong written communication across Discord, Twitter/X, and Reddit.
  • Background designing contributor, ambassador, or moderator programs.
  • Experience running online events, hackathons, giveaways, or community challenges.
  • 1:n mindset to scale programs and systems.
  • Self-directed and entrepreneurial; able to work independently.
  • Comfortable being publicly visible as a company representative.
  • Ideally based in the Bay Area or able to travel for events.

Skills

Required:Discord community managementLLM experience and API usageCommunity program design

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including base salary and equity.
  • Fully remote team with a culture of autonomy and trust.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The Unified Interface For LLMs

A router for LLMs and other AI models

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