About the Role
The OpenClaw Foundation is seeking a Developer Relations & Community Manager based in APAC to build and scale the community behind one of the most ambitious open-source AI initiatives in the world. This is a founding role where you will define the Foundation's approach to developer engagement, contributor growth, ecosystem partnerships, education, events, and community governance. You will become a primary public face of the Foundation, cultivating a global community of developers, researchers, maintainers, enterprises, and AI enthusiasts.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute OpenClaw's developer community strategy
- Grow contributor participation across Foundation projects
- Create onboarding experiences for developers, researchers, and maintainers
- Establish community programs that encourage meaningful participation and long-term retention
- Foster an inclusive and welcoming contributor culture
- Develop recognition programs for contributors, ambassadors, and community leaders
- Support community governance initiatives as the Foundation grows
- Serve as a public advocate for OpenClaw and the broader open-agent ecosystem
- Build relationships with developers, researchers, AI practitioners, and ecosystem partners
- Collect community feedback and communicate insights to maintainers and Foundation leadership
- Help shape project priorities based on developer needs and ecosystem trends
- Represent OpenClaw at conferences, hackathons, podcasts, webinars, and industry events
- Produce high-quality content that helps developers successfully build with OpenClaw
- Collaborate with maintainers and researchers to translate complex technical concepts into accessible educational content
- Develop contributor guides and onboarding materials
- Help establish OpenClaw as the default platform for open AI agents
- Cultivate relationships with startups, enterprises, academic institutions, and open-source communities
- Support the development of interoperability standards and ecosystem initiatives
- Identify opportunities for partnerships and community-driven collaboration
- Work alongside sponsors, contributors, and industry stakeholders to strengthen the Foundation's impact
- Launch and manage ambassador programs, contributor programs, community grants, mentorship initiatives, hackathons, meetups, virtual events, and working groups
- Coordinate Foundation participation in major open-source, AI, and developer conferences
- Support the creation of local and global community chapters
- Track and improve key ecosystem metrics including active contributors, new contributor growth, contributor retention, community engagement, documentation adoption, event participation, developer satisfaction, ecosystem partnerships, and open-source project adoption
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Developer Relations, Developer Advocacy, Community Management, Open Source Program Management, or related roles
- Fluent in English and Mandarin, Japanese, or Korean
- Experience building and scaling technical communities
- Deep understanding of open-source development and contributor workflows
- Strong familiarity with GitHub-based collaboration models
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Experience creating technical content for developer audiences
- Proven ability to build trust with engineers, maintainers, researchers, and community leaders
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Experience in AI, developer tools, infrastructure, security, robotics, or adjacent technical domains (preferred)
- Previous experience working at an open-source foundation or standards body (preferred)
- Familiarity with governance models used by organizations such as the Linux Foundation, W3C, Apache, CNCF, or Mozilla (preferred)
- Experience managing large-scale developer programs, conferences, or hackathons (preferred)
- Technical background in software engineering or computer science (preferred)
- Experience supporting globally distributed communities (preferred)
Skills
- Developer Relations
- Developer Advocacy
- Community Management
- Open Source Program Management
- Technical Content Creation
- Community Building
- Developer Engagement
- Contributor Growth
- Ecosystem Partnerships
- Technical Education
- Open-Source Stewardship
- Community Organizing
- Storytelling
- Ecosystem Building
- Technical Communication
- GitHub Collaboration
- Project Management
- Open Source Development
- AI
- Developer Tools
- Infrastructure
- Security
- Robotics
Location
- APAC
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- The OpenClaw Foundation is the steward of the world's largest open source AI agent project.
- Its mission is grounded in a foundational conviction: that AI must be open, safe, and ultimately owned by the individuals and communities who use it.
- The Foundation operates across three core mandates: Advancing research into the human-agent relationship while continuously evolving the OpenClaw platform; Maintaining and hardening the codebase to ensure security, reliability, and long-term sustainability; Establishing interoperability standards for the emerging agent era, defining how agents configure, communicate, establish trust, transact, and represent user identity across ecosystems.
- Modeled after the governance structures that shaped the open web and modern computing infrastructure, the Foundation serves as a neutral, multi-stakeholder convening body — the equivalent of W3C or the Linux Foundation for the agentic AI era.
- Major laboratories and infrastructure providers collaborate under its umbrella on shared, vendor-neutral infrastructure, with no single organization controlling the roadmap or direction.
- The OpenClaw Foundation believes that individuals should have full sovereignty over their AI: their data, their interactions, and the behavior and personality of their agents.
- Open source is not incidental to this mission but central to it — code must remain free to use, modify, and build upon.
- The future of agentic AI will be defined by a broad, developer-driven community, not prescribed by any single commercial interest.
