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Own and grow OpenRouter’s developer community across Discord, Twitter/X, Reddit, and other channels. Lead moderation, contributor recognition, community programs, events, automations, and sentiment tracking. Build scalable playbooks and systems, recruit and support moderators, synthesize feedback for product and engineering, and represent OpenRouter publicly. The role is primarily digital with regular in-person event involvement and requires hands-on experience building with LLMs and their APIs.

The Forward Deployed Engineer will onboard customers, integrate OpenRouter into their systems, troubleshoot issues, and drive adoption of AI inference solutions.

Provides technical support for enterprise AI infrastructure customers, debugging code, APIs, logs, and upstream provider issues. Creates reproductions, assesses business impact, coordinates incident resolution, supports account reviews, communicates during outages, documents solutions, and feeds customer insights to Product and Engineering. The role requires 3–5+ years in external-facing B2B SaaS or API support, programming knowledge, observability tools, and SQL proficiency.

Develop and manage strategic enterprise accounts for OpenRouter’s AI routing and infrastructure platform. Own complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles from prospecting through activation, build executive relationships, create account strategies, lead demos and negotiations, and close large enterprise deals. Contribute to go-to-market strategy, monitor AI and competitive trends, maintain accurate CRM forecasting, and attend conferences and client meetings with up to 30% travel.

Qualify inbound leads, educate prospects on LLM optimization and OpenRouter offerings, route high-potential opportunities to Account Executives, maintain CRM hygiene, collaborate with sales and marketing, and meet monthly quotas for qualified opportunities and meetings.

Lead and execute a partner strategy to build platform, product, and ISV partnerships. Manage strategic partner relationships, negotiate complex agreements, drive technical integrations, track partner-influenced customer acquisition and usage, and coordinate cross-functionally to scale onboarding, co-marketing, and revenue growth.

Build and execute a global indirect sales and partner strategy across cloud marketplaces, GSIs, distributors, and resellers. Own partner recruitment, enablement, co-sell motions, deal support, executive relationships, partner programs, incentives, and joint marketing to drive partner-sourced revenue and scale the partner organization.

Lead self-serve growth for OpenRouter: run paid media, SEO/AEO, conversion optimization, measurement/attribution, and forecasting. Own multi-channel paid budgets, manage agencies, run experimentation and incrementality tests, and partner with enterprise demand gen. Start hands-on and scale the growth team.

The role entails building relationships with enterprise clients, managing long sales cycles, and driving strategic sales in AI infrastructure. Responsibilities include generating leads, managing sales processes, collaborating with teams, and achieving revenue targets, with a focus on technical solutions for large organizations.

Build models, heuristics, and analytics that optimize model/provider routing and user experience for a large LLM marketplace. Partner with product and engineering to design user-facing data features, define product metrics, run deep analyses, and ship data-driven improvements tied to roadmap decisions. Scale analytical foundation in ClickHouse/dbt.