Founding Developer Relations

About the job

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain runnable demos, sample applications, integrations, and reference architectures for LiteLLM use cases.
• Create technical guides, videos, workshops, and deep dives to explain complex capabilities.
• Engage directly with developers through GitHub, community channels, livestreams, meetups, and conferences.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams on launches to ensure strong examples, documentation, and technical narratives.
• Identify and address recurring developer questions and friction points by improving documentation, examples, and product feedback.
• Explore the AI developer ecosystem and build examples with relevant models, frameworks, and tools.
• Utilize developer feedback and adoption data to prioritize educational resources and community initiatives.
• Represent LiteLLM publicly through technical talks, workshops, videos, podcasts, and community conversations.
• Create high-quality tutorials, demos, sample applications, reference architectures, videos, and technical deep dives.
• Develop educational resources focused on problems developers are actively solving.
• Explain LiteLLM capabilities such as model routing, fallbacks, cost controls, observability, authentication, guardrails, MCP, and production deployment.
• Keep examples and technical content accurate as LiteLLM and the AI ecosystem evolve.
• Improve the user experience from learning about a capability to successfully implementing it.
• Build genuine relationships with developers using, evaluating, and contributing to LiteLLM.
• Participate in GitHub discussions, community channels, technical forums, and open-source conversations.
• Help developers overcome challenges and identify patterns for durable resources or product improvements.
• Support contributors and power users, creating opportunities for them to showcase their work.
• Represent LiteLLM at relevant conferences, meetups, workshops, livestreams, podcasts, and community events.
• Establish a structured feedback loop between the developer community and LiteLLM’s Product and Engineering teams.
• Identify recurring points of confusion, missing integrations, documentation gaps, and product friction.
• Reproduce technical issues and differentiate between documentation, usability, and product problems.
• Translate developer feedback into clear product recommendations, issues, examples, and documentation improvements.
• Contribute technical fixes within scope and partner with Engineering on larger product changes.
• Own the developer-facing execution for major product and open-source launches.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand product releases, target audiences, and significance.
• Produce necessary demos, sample code, tutorials, documentation, and technical explanations for new capabilities.
• Ensure launches demonstrate working implementations, not just feature announcements.
• Evaluate launches for their impact on developer understanding and adoption.
• Establish LiteLLM’s initial Developer Relations priorities and operating rhythm.

Requirements

• Hands-on technical individual-contributor experience.
• Comfortable opening a code editor.
• Ability to explain infrastructure concepts.
• Skilled in talking with developers about their challenges.
• Experience building demos, sample applications, integrations, and reference architectures.
• Experience creating technical guides, videos, workshops, and deep dives.
• Experience engaging directly with developers through various technical forums.
• Experience partnering with Product and Engineering teams on launches.
• Ability to identify and address recurring questions and friction points.
• Experience exploring the wider AI developer ecosystem and building examples.
• Ability to use developer feedback and adoption data to inform decisions.
• Experience representing a company publicly through technical talks, workshops, videos, podcasts, and community conversations.
• Experience creating high-quality tutorials, demos, sample applications, reference architectures, videos, and technical deep dives.
• Experience developing educational resources around developer problems.
• Ability to explain complex AI capabilities.
• Ability to keep technical content accurate and up-to-date.
• Ability to improve the developer experience from learning to implementation.
• Ability to build genuine relationships with developers.
• Experience participating in GitHub discussions, community channels, technical forums, and open-source conversations.
• Ability to help developers get unstuck and identify patterns for improvement.
• Ability to support contributors and power users.
• Experience representing a company at conferences, meetups, workshops, livestreams, podcasts, and community events.
• Ability to establish a structured feedback loop between the developer community and Product/Engineering teams.
• Ability to identify points of confusion, missing integrations, documentation gaps, and product friction.
• Ability to reproduce technical issues and distinguish problem types.
• Ability to translate developer feedback into actionable recommendations, issues, examples, and documentation improvements.
• Ability to contribute technical fixes and partner with Engineering on larger changes.
• Experience owning developer-facing execution for product and open-source launches.
• Ability to collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand product releases.
• Ability to produce necessary launch materials like demos, sample code, tutorials, and documentation.
• Ability to ensure launches demonstrate working implementations.
• Ability to evaluate launch success based on developer understanding and adoption.
• Ability to establish Developer Relations priorities and operating rhythm.