General Manager, AI Dev

career • Mountain View, CA

8d • Onsite

About The Position

AI is the new electricity, transforming every aspect of our lives. DeepLearning.AI is on a mission to empower everyone to build with AI. We offer world-class education, hands-on training, access to AI news, a collaborative community and global in-person conferences.

We’re seeking an entrepreneurial and AI-passionate General Manager for our AI Dev line of global conferences to build and scale DeepLearning.AI’s AI events business into a flagship brand for the global AI developer community.
|You are our ideal candidate if you have a deep passion for AI, strong instincts for what developers care about, and a track record of building new business lines or programs from the ground up.
Reporting directly to Andrew Ng, you will own the end-to-end strategy and execution of large-scale AI events - from content and speaker curation to sponsorships, partnerships, logistics, and revenue.
This is a high-ownership role for a builder who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast across functions, and is excited about creating world-class experiences that bring the AI community together.
This role is 5 days/week in our Mountain View office with ability to travel domestically and internationally for a total of a few weeks every year.

Requirements

• Understand the AI developer community deeply - what developers care about, what motivates them, and how they prefer to learn and connect. If you are a member of the developer community yourself, that would be ideal.
• Comfortable coding with AI and working with AI tools, and hunger to continue learning, to accelerate your own and the team’s productivity.
• Take an initiative from concept to execution, working cross-functionally and navigating ambiguity with a bias toward action.
• Build and optimize operational systems for large-scale events, including logistics, vendor management, and cross-functional coordination.
• Develop and execute revenue strategies across sponsorships, ticketing, content partnerships, and new event formats.
• Curate compelling event content and speaker lineups that deliver practical, hands-on value to technical audiences.
• Recruit, develop, and lead high-performing teams while fostering a culture of ownership and collaboration.
• Strong entrepreneurial mindset - comfortable building from scratch, wearing multiple hats, and iterating quickly based on feedback and traction.
• At least 7 years of professional experience.
• Including 3+ years in operations, general management, business building, or event leadership, event production, sponsorships, partnerships, or monetization models (AI/tech events strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated experience taking new initiatives from concept to execution in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.

Nice To Haves

• Deep familiarity with the AI event and conference landscape (e.g., academic conferences like NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR, Google I/O, Hugging Face events).
• Experience building a new business line or revenue stream from the ground up.
• Background in developer marketing, developer relations, or technical community building.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI events business strategy - develop and execute the vision for DeepLearning.AI’s events business, including product direction, event formats, content, revenue goals, and a roadmap for scaling into a standalone business line.
• Lead planning and delivery of flagship events - drive end-to-end execution of large-scale AI developer events, from concept and speaker curation to logistics, marketing, and post-event follow-through.
• Build and optimize cross-functional workflows - coordinate work with marketing, sponsor and speaker partnerships, event production logistics, finance, and content teams to deliver seamless events. Establish repeatable processes that scale.
• Drive revenue and growth opportunities - identify and pursue monetization models including sponsorships, ticketing, content partnerships, and new event formats.
• Curate world-class content and speakers - develop event agendas that deliver deep, practical, hands-on technical learning experiences that AI developers genuinely value. Leverage and nurture DeepLearning.AI’s brand and network to attract top speakers and thought leaders.
• Manage vendors, partners, and operational capacity - work with internal and external partners to scale event operations. Own vendor relationships, budgets, and the operational infrastructure needed to grow the business.
• Build and lead the events team - recruit and develop a high-performing team as the business grows. Define team structure, roles, and metrics to support long-term scaling.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed