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Runway

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Media

Runway is a company building foundational "Real-World Intelligence" — large models and systems that can understand, simulate and act in the visual world. It offers three main product platforms built on these models: Runway Creative, an all‑in‑one cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images and audio for individuals and teams; Runway Dev, an AI media platform and API for developers to run models, compose pipelines and trigger workflows; and Runway Robotics, a toolkit for photorealistic simulation, policy inference and synthetic data generation powered by their General World Model (GWM-1). Runway also publishes research (e. g. , GWM-1, Gen-4. 5 video model) and serves both individual creators and enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Own the Developer Funnel, End-to-End • Own the full developer funnel from awareness to activation; drive adoption and engagement across our API user base with a structured, data-informed engagement strategy • Design onboarding experiences that get creative developers from zero to their first successful API build as quickly as possible • Manage the motion from self-serve to enterprise API relationships – identify high-potential developers through usage and spend signals and route them into the right engagement track • Track, analyze, and report on developer funnel metrics and API engagement using BI tools and data • Build & Energize the Creative Developer Community • Own hackathons, sponsorships, and developer events end-to-end – from concept and logistics to execution and follow-through • Build and nurture a community of creative technologists, researchers, and developers pushing the boundaries of generative video and image • Represent Runway at conferences, meetups, and online communities; be a recognizable and trusted presence in the generative AI developer ecosystem • Surface developer sentiment, emerging use cases, and market signals back to internal teams to inform product direction • Produce high-quality tutorials, demos, sample repos, and technical walkthroughs that showcase what's possible with our models and API • Own social and X content strategy for the developer audience – rapid demos, creative experiments, prompting tips, and technical threads • Run regular developer communications including email newsletters, changelogs, and recurring developer office hours • Prototype creative, targeted content that meets developers where they are • Champion Developers Internally – and Runway Externally • Serve as the primary point of contact for the developer community; be genuinely accessible, responsive, and useful • Build a tight, structured feedback loop between developers and the Product and Engineering teams – surface trends, flag blockers, and advocate for developer needs • Partner with Marketing and GTM to create developer-focused activation campaigns that resonate with a technical, creative audience • Define and track success metrics tied to developer activation, API engagement, and community growth

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in developer relations, developer advocacy, or a highly technical, community-facing role – ideally within AI/ML, creative tech, or a research-adjacent organization • Deep, hands-on familiarity with generative video and image models; you've built with them, you experiment constantly, and you follow this space closely • Comfort operating in a 0-to-1 environment – you've built programs, communities, or developer motions from scratch and know how to create structure and momentum without a playbook to follow • Strong engineering fundamentals – you can write code, build demos independently, debug API integrations, and speak credibly with technical audiences • A genuine creative sensibility – you understand the needs of designers, filmmakers, and creative technologists, not just traditional software engineers, and you move fluidly between those worlds • Proven track record of driving developer community growth and API adoption with measurable outcomes • Experience producing developer-facing content across formats: documentation, video demos, short-form social, and live technical presentations • Experience running developer events end-to-end: hackathons, workshops, sponsorships, and office hours • Deep enthusiasm for generative AI; you stay close to the technology, build with it, and have a strong point of view on where it's going.

🏖️ Benefits

• Great teams • Equal opportunity to succeed