Developer Advocate
AssemblyAIPosted 2/26/2025
Developer Advocate
AssemblyAI
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Job Summary
AssemblyAI is seeking a Developer Advocate to bridge the gap between their Speech AI models and developer community. The role involves connecting with developers across social channels, fostering innovation, and driving engagement. As a remote team, AssemblyAI values integrity, curiosity, and ambition. They offer competitive salary ranges ($149,000 - $166,000) and benefits, as well as opportunities for growth and development in the AI space.
Job Description
About AssemblyAI
At AssemblyAI, we’re building at the forefront of Speech AI, creating powerful models for speech-to-text and speech understanding available through a straightforward API. With more than 200,000 developers building on our API and over 5,000 paying customers, AssemblyAI is helping unlock and support the next generation of powerful, meaningful products built with AI.
Progress in AI is moving at an unprecedented pace– and our team is made up of experts in AI research that are focused on making sure that our customers are able to stay on the cutting edge, with production-ready AI models that are constantly updating and improving as our team continues to improve accuracy, latency, and what’s possible with Speech AI. Our models consistently rank highest in industry benchmarks for accuracy, outperforming models from Google and Amazon, and up to 30% fewer hallucinations than OpenAI’s Whisper. Our models power more than 2 billion end-user experiences each day, helping companies better understand customer feedback, run more productive meetings with automated meeting notes, and helping improve childhood literacy via ed tech tools.
We’ve raised funding by leading investors including Accel, Insight Partners, Y Combinator’s AI Fund, Patrick and John Collision, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross. We’re a remote team looking to build one of the next great AI companies, and are looking for driven, talented people to help us get there!
About the Role
AssemblyAI is seeking a passionate Developer Advocate to help developers find AssemblyAI, get inspired about what they can build with our Speech AI models, and start building on our API. In this role, you'll bridge the gap between AssemblyAI and our developer community by connecting with them directly across social and community channels, build relationships with our users and partnerships across the ecosystem to collaborate on innovative ideas, drive engagement and virality with our developer audience, and help AssemblyAI become a household name with the developer audience.
As a Developer Advocate at AssemblyAI, you'll play a crucial role in further establishing us with our developer audience. You'll be the voice of AssemblyAI to our developer audience on our social channels, foster community relationships via hackathons, online forums, and IRL meetups, and put a spotlight on the incredible developers building on our API. This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of developer relations, community, and AI technology.
What You’ll Do:
- Own our voice and strategy across social and community channels for our developer audience (Twitter, Reddit, Discord, etc)
- Amplify the projects and products being built on AssemblyAI’s API to the broader AI community and developer space
- Foster innovation from current and prospective developers building on our API and give them opportunities to connect with one another
- Find opportunities to connect with other developer relations teams from our ecosystem for comarketing to help broaden our reach with our developer audience
- Represent AssemblyAI at industry events, meetups, and conferences
- Keep your finger on the pulse of what developers are talking about and focused on within the AI space to help our social and content strategy stay ahead of the curve
- Host and attend hackathons in the AI space to help developers discover and build with AssemblyAI
- Create technical social content including tutorials, code samples, and videos that are helpful, shareable, and engaging for our audience
- Develop and deliver engaging presentations and workshops at developer conferences and community events
- Act as the voice of the developer within AssemblyAI, providing feedback to product and engineering teams
- Collaborate with product and research teams to help amplify the innovation coming out of AssemblyAI
What You’ll Need:
Required
- 3+ years of software development, developer relations, or developer community experience
- Proven network and experience building community with a developer audience across channels like Twitter, YouTube, Discord, Reddit, etc.
- Experience helping developers be successful, whether it be demos, presentations, videos, or blogs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience speaking at technical conferences or meetups
- Passion for developer education and community building
Preferred
- Experience with speech recognition, audio processing, or machine learning technologies
- Existing network or following from the developer community (Twitter, YouTube, Blog)
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience building and maintaining developer communities
- Background in creating video content or technical demonstrations
Pay Transparency:
AssemblyAI strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size, stage, and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefit, and other reward opportunities we provide.
There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level, qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.
The provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range which will be communicated to candidates throughout the interview process.
Salary range: $149,00 - $166,000
Working at AssemblyAI
We are a small but mighty group of startup veterans and experienced AI researchers with over 20 years of expertise in Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, and NLP. As a fully remote team, we’re looking for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and lead with integrity. We’re still in the early days of AI and of AssemblyAI’s journey, and are looking for teammates who won’t just fit in, but will help us define and build our company culture.
We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. No matter your race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!
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