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Founding DevRel

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 11 days ago

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Required skills

DevRel
developer relations
developer marketing
developer-tool
API
infrastructure
growth
public portfolio
posts
talks

Nice to have

network
devtool community
AI-agent community
early-stage startup experience

Role summary

Lightsage is seeking a Founding DevRel hire to establish its brand and community within the AI agent economy. This role involves shaping the company's narrative, growing the DevToolArena.com platform, managing events and launches, and optimizing website SEO. The ideal candidate will have experience in growth, developer relations, or developer marketing, with a strong technical aptitude for building demos and interacting with coding agents. Key responsibilities include measuring work and running experiments across content and channels to drive developer adoption and product integration. This is a full-time, on-site position in San Francisco.

Company Description

AI agents are becoming how software gets chosen. Developers ask Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and ChatGPT which tool to use, and more and more they let the agent pick and integrate it. If an agent doesn't recommend you, or loops trying to figure out how to use your product, it moves on to something else.

Lightsage gets companies ready for the agent economy: visible to agents, so they get recommended, and usable by agents, so integrations work the first time. We track how often coding agents and AI answer engines recommend a company against its competitors, run real coding agents against its APIs, CLIs and MCP servers to find where they fail, and tell the team exactly what to change.

We work with category leaders in AI and developer tools, including Firecrawl, Reducto, Scalekit, TinyFish, Daytona, Rime and Meetstream, and we run DevToolArena.com, a public benchmark that ranks developer tools by how well coding agents use them.

We've raised a $4M seed led by Nexus Venture Partners, and we're backed by growth leaders and founders of Postman, Apollo, Firecrawl, Resend, Daytona, TinyFish and others. Our goal is to be the default for any company that wants to win with agents.

Role Description

As the Founding DevRel hire, you'll own how developers and developer-tool companies discover Lightsage. Working directly with the founders, you'll build our brand, community and developer relations from the ground up: shaping how we tell our story, growing DevToolArena.com, running events and launches, and owning the website and SEO. You'll decide where we show up, and measure what works.

Requirements

Experience in growth, developer relations or developer marketing at a developer-tool, API or infrastructure company
Technical enough to build demos, read API docs and run coding agents yourself
Strong technical writing and a public portfolio (posts, talks, open-source work or videos)
Measures your work and runs experiments on content, channels and conversion
An existing network in the devtool or AI-agent community is a plus
Prior early-stage startup experience is a plus

This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, CA.

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