Own the SF community and run the events. Host a ZenML meetup every two weeks - real rooms, great speakers, the kind of event people actually show up for and keep talking after. Build it from zero into the room the SF ML-infra crowd doesn't want to miss. This is the heartbeat of the role.

Be everywhere. Work the AI-infra meetups, hackathons, and conferences that matter. Be the connector - the person who knows everyone and introduces them to each other. When someone says "MLOps" or "ML pipelines" at a dinner in SoMa, we want your name to come up.

Evangelize, loudly and credibly. Talks, blog posts, social, short demo videos - content that comes from what you're seeing in the community, not a calendar handed to you. You're the voice of ZenML in the US.

Demo the product for real. You can run ZenML live in front of a technical audience, answer real questions, and read code well enough to know what's going on. You don't ship features - our engineers do that - but you're never the person hiding behind slides.

Engineer the motion underneath it all. This is what makes you different from a classic community hire. You don't just run events and hope - you instrument them. Who showed up, who's now running pipelines, which GitHub repos lit up, which accounts are ramping. You wire product and community signals (Mixpanel, GitHub, Attio, Clay) into an automated flow - enrichment, scoring, follow-up - so every conversation you start in a room turns into traceable pipeline instead of a business card in a drawer.

Be our eyes and ears in the Valley. What people are building, what frustrates them, who's evaluating what - it flows straight back into product and GTM. Direct impact from day one.

ZenML is a known name in the SF AI-infra scene - a thriving bi-weekly meetup series with real, growing attendance, and a community that knows you and us.

A measurable stream of pipeline and signups traceable to the community and events you built - the proof that the motion works.

A system, not a hustle: product and community signals reliably feeding qualified, followed-up conversations, so it compounds instead of resetting every month.

A content and social presence that pulls all of the above together.

Ambitious and high-energy - drive counts more than your CV. This is an early-career role, and we'd take raw hunger, hustle, and talent over a longer résumé any day. If you're the person who makes things happen and can't sit still, the exact line count of your experience matters far less to us.

Some real reps in DevRel, community, growth, or developer-facing GTM - ideally somewhere smaller and scrappier than a FAANG. Whether that's a year or a few, what counts is that you've gotten people in a room and followed up so it turned into something.

A natural connector and host. Ambitious, high-energy, genuinely likes people and brings them together. You send the slightly audacious DM, you make the "small ask," you remember names, and people leave your events wanting to come back.

Technical enough for a developer product. You can demo a Python framework live, read code, work with APIs, and hold your own with ML engineers. You know when to pull in an engineer for the deep stuff.

Systems-minded. You instinctively turn a manual, one-off hustle into something repeatable and measurable. Comfortable in the modern GTM stack (a CRM, enrichment, Clay or similar, light automation and LLM workflows) - or hungry to learn it fast.

Self-directed to a fault. You'll run the US presence largely solo. Nobody tells you what to do on a Tuesday morning - that excites you rather than terrifies you. And you won't be totally alone: the founders are in SF regularly, so you'll get real in-person strategy time even though HQ is nine time zones away in Munich.

In San Francisco, or moving there. This job does not work remotely. The whole point is presence.

Existing network in the SF AI / ML / infra community

A visible personal brand - talks you've given, events you've run that people remember, a following

Experience running GTM off product-usage or open-source signals (PLG / usage-based motions)

Experience with open-source communities (GitHub-native audiences behave differently)

Familiarity with the MLOps / LLMOps / agent-infrastructure landscape

Attractive incentivization package including stock options - you're employee #1 in the US, and the package reflects that

Real budget for events, travel, and tooling - hosting things and building the motion both cost money, and we know it

Direct line to the founders, who you'll see in SF regularly; no layers, no politics

The chance to build ZenML's entire US presence and go-to-market with your fingerprints on it

Your LinkedIn or CV

Tell us what you'd do in your first month - the more concrete, the better

Optional: one event you've run or community you've grown, with numbers