Design hands-on workshop formats that get developers to a first API call during the session.
Maintain workshop-ready demo infrastructure — facilitator guides, environment setup, and scaffolding that works for 40 people simultaneously. - Own Community Health: Manage the health and growth of Deepgram's developer community across Discord, GitHub, Reddit, and social platforms.
Run engagement rhythms — office hours, developer spotlights, social listening — and ship monthly friction reports that surface community-sourced issues to Product and Engineering. - Build the Champions Pipeline: Identify, cultivate, and activate the most engaged developers in the community.
Build the data and relationships needed to launch a formal Champions program — you know who your best builders are because you've worked with them, not because they're names on a spreadsheet. - Measure What Matters: Track event-to-activation conversion as your primary success metric.
- Coordinate Across the Business: Work with Field Marketing on trade shows, with Partnerships on co-hosted events, and with the Advocacy team to ensure the content and demos they produce land in front of real developers at your events.
Requirements
COMPANY OVERVIEW Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale.
COMPANY OPERATING RHYTHM At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.
Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work.
We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here.
Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.
Additionally, we move at the pace of AI.
ABOUT DEEPGRAM Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers; building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS), enterprise-grade, voice agent offerings.
Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving internal voice AI use cases.
ABOUT THE ROLE As a Senior AI Community Engineer, you are the person who creates the venues (physical and digital) where developers discover voice AI, try it for the first time, and connect with the builders around them.
You are Deepgram's in-person presence in the Bay Area at meetups, hack nights, AI conferences, and the local builder community.
You execute from planning through post-event follow-up and impact measurement. - Build the SF Presence: Establish and maintain a regular cadence of in-person programming in the Bay Area that makes Deepgram the default gathering point for voice AI builders.
Experience growing and sustaining a developer community.
You understand engagement loops, community health metrics, and when to lead vs. when to step back and let the community help itself. - Technical Credibility: You don't need to be a Staff engineer, but you need to be technical enough to triage developer questions live, run a workshop on API integrations, and maintain demo infrastructure.
Comfortable with JavaScript or Python and familiar with API-first development. - AI-First Mindset: You use AI tools in your daily workflow — for planning, content, research, automation.
You're building with AI, not just talking about it. - Local Presence: Based in San Francisco with the ability to be Deepgram's consistent in-person presence in the Bay Area. ~25% travel beyond the region for conferences and team gatherings. - High Autonomy: You find the gaps, design the format, and drive to outcomes without waiting to be handed a plan.
Experience with community platforms (Discord, Discourse, Orbit, Common Room) and community analytics.
Experience working across organizational boundaries to co-produce events or programs with external partners. - Champions / Ambassador Programs:
Experience designing or running a developer champions, MVP, or ambassador program. - Content as a Complement: While content isn't your primary output, the ability to produce event recaps, community spotlights, or short-form social content is a plus.
The Bay Area is home to the densest concentration of AI builders and voice AI startups in the world.
If you're looking to work on cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in the AI industry, we'd love to hear from you! Deepgram is an equal opportunity employer.
Benefits
Bonus if you've produced hybrid or virtual events. - Workshop Design: A portfolio of hands-on technical workshops you've designed and facilitated — ideally with measurable activation or completion outcomes. - Community Tooling:
Bonus if you've built custom community tooling or automation. - Media & Real-time Protocols: Familiarity with WebSockets, WebRTC, or real-time audio — enough to understand how Deepgram's technology works and explain it to developers in a workshop setting. - Partnership Coordination:
experience where they prove it to themselves. BENEFITS & PERKS
HOLISTIC HEALTH - Medical, dental, vision
benefits - Annual wellness stipend - Mental health support - Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans WORK/LIFE BLEND - Unlimited PTO - Parental leave - Flexible schedule - 12 Paid US company holidays - Quarterly personal productivity stipend - One-time stipend for home office upgrades - 401(k) plan with company match - Tax Savings Programs CONTINUOUS LEARNING - Learning / Education stipend - Participation in talks and conferences - Employee Resource Groups - AI enablement workshops / sessions *For candidates
Backed by prominent investors including Y Combinator, Madrona, Tiger Global, Wing VC and NVIDIA, Deepgram has raised over $215M in total funding.
Additional details
More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box.
Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency.
Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words.
There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.
Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly.
This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.
Over 200,000 developers build with Deepgram's voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs, well known partners or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing.
The company ended 2024 cash-flow positive with 400+ enterprise customers, 3.3x annual usage growth across the past 4 years, over 50,000 years of audio processed and over 1 trillion words transcribed.
Where Developer Advocates prove what's possible through code and content, you prove it by putting a keyboard in a developer's hands.
You run the builders night where 40 developers make their first API call.