Community Manager
$150k - $200k/yr+ Bonus
Mid
Bachelor's
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
In PersonOnsite in Sunnyvale; travel up to 50%.
Social MediaCommunity Management
No H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- Experience building and sustaining developer or technical communities, with evidence of active participation, repeat engagement, and lasting member relationships.
- Experience delivering events, workshops, or hackathons from planning through execution and follow-up, with strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- A track record of developing productive partnerships with organizations such as universities, developer groups, accelerators, or open-source communities.
- Experience managing online communities, including moderation, member onboarding, discussions, and timely follow-up.
- A working understanding of artificial intelligence and the developer ecosystem, sufficient to engage credibly with builders, understand their interests, and recognize when technical expertise is needed.
- Clear written and verbal communication, sound interpersonal judgment, and the ability to coordinate programs independently across technical and non-technical teams.
- A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
Responsibilities
- Build ongoing relationships with developers, founders, researchers, and students, connecting them with IFM and with each other across its model portfolio.
- Plan and deliver meetups, workshops, and hackathons, owning audience development, format, logistics, and follow-up, with technical content provided by Developer Relations and researchers.
- Manage engagement across relevant online channels, welcoming members, encouraging useful discussions, and connecting questions with the appropriate people.
- Develop partnerships with universities, developer groups, accelerators, and local organizations to create sustained community programs.
- Make useful introductions, support member-led activities, and showcase community projects to maintain engagement between events.
- Work with Developer Relations, researchers, and Marketing to shape relevant programs, share community feedback, and connect interested builders with deeper technical support.
- Track active participation, repeat engagement, partner activity, and project follow-through, using feedback and results to improve community programs.
Desired Qualifications
- A technical background in computer science, engineering, artificial intelligence, or a related field is highly preferred, ideally with hands-on experience building software or working with AI models.
- Established relationships within the Silicon Valley developer, startup, or university ecosystem.
- Experience with AI or open-source communities, including programs that help participants continue building beyond an initial event.
- Experience coordinating community programs across locations and working with international teams.
About the company
IFM builds and studies foundation models—large AI models designed to learn broadly from diverse data and be used across many tasks. Its work centers on academic research to create open, fast, and practical models that address real-world societal needs, rather than narrow applications. The models are developed by a global team across Abu Dhabi, Paris, and Silicon Valley, with a strong emphasis on openness and collaboration to advance AI science and accessibility. Unlike typical private labs that lock models behind paywalls, IFM aims to provide publicly accessible, efficient models that can be used by researchers and developers to solve real problems. The overarching goal is to push the science of foundation models forward while ensuring their benefits reach society at large.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AWS, Cerebras, Nebius, Hugging Face, vLLM, and SGLang already distribute K2 Horizon.
- October 2026 benchmark chatter praises K2 Horizon's small models and 375B enterprise flagship.
- MBZUAI's October 2026 hiring surge supports rapid expansion across agents, world models, and infrastructure.
What critics are saying
- Open-sourcing K2 Horizon hands competitors reproducible recipes, shrinking IFM's moat by 2027.
- MBZUAI listed 45 IFM vacancies on October 2, 2026, signaling heavy execution strain.
- If K2 Horizon misses commercial adoption, IFM remains a prestige lab dependent on state capital.
What makes Institute of Foundation Models unique
- September 3, 2026 K2 Horizon shipped six fully open models with weights, code, and data.
- IFM offers Apache 2.0 frontier models, unlike closed labs protecting training recipes and checkpoints.
- MBZUAI-backed labs in Abu Dhabi, Silicon Valley, and Paris combine research depth with deployment access.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- Wellness Program
- Flexible Work Hours