Open source self-improving layer for AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Make developers care about the open source : own the path from GitHub star to install to traces flowing in. Launches on Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, and X that land, and the follow-through that turns a spike into retained users.
What they're looking for
- You've marketed a developer product: you've grown an open-source project, a devtool, or an AI-infra product, and you can point at the launches, posts, docs, or pages that did it
- You can run a technical sales call: you're comfortable demoing to engineers, asking the uncomfortable qualifying questions, and following up until you get an answer either way
- Technically credible, not necessarily an engineer: you can install TraceRoot yourself with Claude Code, read a stack trace, and explain what it does without a hand-holder. You do not need to ship production code for this role
- Distribution-obsessed: you've built a launch, a content play, or an outbound motion that actually converted, and you get a genuine kick out of it
- Strong sense of ownership and bias for action: you own outcomes, not tasks, you move fast, make pragmatic decisions, and thrive in ambiguity without waiting for a roadmap
- DevRel / dev-tool marketing: you've done developer relations, developer-tools marketing, or GTM at a dev-tool / AI-infra company
More about this role
You'll be the founding GTM at TraceRoot — the person who makes developers care, and then goes and talks to them. This is both halves of the job: you'll run the launches, the writing, and the demos that put us in front of every team shipping agents into production, and you'll get on the calls, qualify the teams worth our time, and run the pipeline that comes out of it. It's not a marketing-ops job and it's not a pure content job. Our growth today comes from developers who found the repo, installed it, and told someone. Your job is to make that happen on purpose, at volume — and to turn the best of those developers into conversations, and those conversations into customers.
We move fast, debate hard, and execute even harder, shipping weekly and iterating live with users. You'll work in person with me at least 3 days a week. If you want to own both the story and the pipeline of a product developers already love, and see your work move real numbers within days, you'll fit right in.
Make developers care about the open source : own the path from GitHub star to install to traces flowing in. Launches on Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit, and X that land, and the follow-through that turns...
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