Technical Community & Programs Lead

Reflection is a research lab making intelligence open and accessible for everyone to use customize and build on. We build open models that let anyone control their intelligence and help shape the future of AI. Our mission: make intelligence open and accessible to all.

Reflection is building open-weight AI systems that researchers developers and enterprises are looking to as the foundational intelligence layer for their technology. Researchers and developers are our earliest adopters our most credible validators and a core distribution channel through which frontier AI reaches the world. We are hiring a Technical Community & Programs Lead to build and own Reflections presence within the communities that matter most: researchers developers and the builders who will shape what the open source AI ecosystem becomes.

We are looking for someone who has a deep background in this world already a point of view on whats worth attending and whats worth building and can represent Reflection with the kind of authenticity that comes from being a passionate active participant in the AI community.

Cultivate Reflections presence with developer and research communities

• Foster and maintain trusted relationships with the researchers engineers and community figures who shape opinion and direction in open AI development.

• Represent Reflection externally and build alongside the community creating demos tutorials and contributing to the open source ecosystem.

• Help build our presence in the developer and research spaces where real technical discourse happens including at industry and hosted events on X YouTube and Hugging Face etc. as a credible distinct voice with a perspective.

• Identify and engage the tastemakers contributors and builders who are doing interesting work with open models and help Reflection show up as a genuine collaborator.

Build and oversee our community programs and event strategy

• Own ambassador and developer programs end-to-end: strategy structure recruiting activation and ongoing relationship management.

• Develop the community content and channel strategy that gives developers and researchers a reason to engage with Reflection beyond launches. This includes tutorials discussions technical explainers community spotlights.

• Build and manage university and researcher partnership programs that give Reflection a presence in the institutions training the next generation of AI builders.

• Help organize and run hackathons meetups and webinars that developers and researchers actually want to attend.

Partner closely with Comms and GTM

• Partner closely with Communications Product Research Go-To-Market teams in developing the strategy and content for social events launches and more.

• Build the operational infrastructure that ties our external community programming together: timelines logistics partner coordination and follow-through.

• Bring community signal back to our team to shape how Reflection builds and communicates with customers partners and the broader AI ecosystem.

• Someone who is genuinely embedded in the developer and research community. You stay close to and are part of the conversations trends events and programming that developers and researchers engage with. You have your own presence your own relationships and your own read on whats interesting and whats noise. Having a personal brand or meaningful community presence in the AI ML or developer ecosystem is a big plus.

• Experience running community programs developer relations or technical marketing at an AI company open-source project or developer-focused technology company.

• The operational rigor and attention to detail to own an events calendar and programs portfolio in a fast-moving environmentand the technical writing chops to produce content that earns attention in technical communities.

We believe that to make intelligence open and accessible to all you need to start at the foundation. Joining Reflection means building from the ground up as part of a talent-dense team. You will help define our future as a company and help define the future of open foundational models.

We want you to do the most impactful work of your career with the confidence that you and the people you care about most are supported.

• Top-tier compensation: Salary and equity structured to recognize and retain our talent globally.

• Stock options: Everyone who joins and contributes to Reflections success gets to share in the upside through stock options.

• Health & wellness: Comprehensive medical dental vision and life with an annual wellness allowance.

• Meals: Lunch and dinner are provided in the office daily.

• Life & family: 22 weeks paid parental leave for all new birthing and non-birthing parents including adoptive and surrogate journeys.

• Vacation days: Unlimited paid time off in the U.S. and 30 days in the U.K.

• Sponsorship support: We sponsor visas to help exceptional talent join our team and support long-term immigration pathways where applicable.

• Team building: We have regular off-sites happy hours and team celebrations.

Export Control Notice: This position may require access to technology or source code subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Any offer of employment for this role may be conditioned on the Companys ability to provide the candidate with access to such technology or source code in compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws which may require the Company to seek government authorization.