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# Developer Relations Lead

- **Company:** RONALD LAYER
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Next.js, RSA (Cryptosystem), Stripe
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/developer-relations-lead-runlayer-8352238

## About the Role

* 5+ years in developer relations, technical community, or technical events at B2B SaaS, infra, or AI companies
 * Technical background. You can hold your own in a room with senior engineers and have written code at some point in your career.
 * Proven experience running major conference sponsorships and booth operations end-to-end
 * Strong taste for what makes events memorable vs forgettable (Vercel, Stripe, Linear as reference points)
 * Comfortable on stage and in front of technical audiences; able to deliver demos and talks when needed
 * Network in the developer, AI, or infrastructure communities, * Direct experience with MCP, AI agents, or LLM tooling
 * Background as an engineer before moving into DevRel
 * Track record of building technical communities from scratch
 * Experience running hackathons or technical workshops

## Description

We're a team of 35, mostly engineers, shipping fast. Agent operators on Runlayer grew 5x in four weeks while human operators stayed flat. The shift to agentic work is already showing up in our own usage., As our Developer Relations Lead, you'll own Runlayer's physical presence in the developer and enterprise AI communities. You'll manage our sponsorships and booth presence at major conferences while building a community that our customers want to be part of., * Impact: Own how Runlayer shows up at every conference that matters in the AI and enterprise infrastructure space

 * Excellence: Work with a team that treats end user love & events as a core GTM motion
 * Ownership: Own conference strategy, DevRel programming, and community presence end-to-end, * Own major conference presence: AWS re:Invent, AI Engineer World's Fair, MCP Dev Summit, RSA, and others
 * Run DevRel events: meetups, hackathons, dinners, and technical workshops for MCP developers and platform engineers
 * Manage booth strategy, speaking slots, side events, and customer dinners at conferences
 * Build and nurture the technical community around Runlayer and the MCP ecosystem
 * Create technical content and demos that can travel to events
 * Partner with engineering and product to bring technical credibility to every event
 * Drive partner co-marketing activations at events (Cursor, 1Password, Anthropic, etc.)


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