We're building something that shouldn't exist. A headless browser built from scratch, designed specifically for machines and AI.
We've thrown out the legacy approach of retrofitting desktop browsers for automation because Headless Chrome wasn't built for what's coming next.
The future of web traffic isn't humans clicking through pages. It’s AI agents taking actions on behalf of humans, LLM training pipelines, and automated workflows operating at massive scale.
We know this firsthand. Our founding team spent years crawling millions of web pages per day at our previous company, wrestling with the pain of building on top of Chrome's bloated memory footprint and sluggish performance. So we started over.
Lightpanda is written in Zig, a systems programming language optimized for performance. Our browser starts up instantly, is 10x faster than Chrome headless and uses 10x less RAM. We're open source, compatible with Puppeteer and Playwright, and backed by leading investors including the founders of Mistral, Hugging Face, and Dust.
We recently closed our pre-seed round and we're ready to grow. But growth for an open source project isn't about traditional marketing. It's about winning the hearts and minds of developers who care about performance, efficiency, and doing more with less.
We're hiring a Head of Developer Relations to be our champion in the developer community, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This isn't a role where you'll bounce from conference to conference delivering the same canned pitch. We need someone who genuinely understands what we're building and can speak authentically about why it matters.
You'll be our presence on the ground, attending meetups, running demos at hackathons, spending time building relationships with developers who are pushing the boundaries of web automation and AI from YC companies to fast-growing AI scaleups and large enterprises.
You'll help developers get unstuck, gather feedback from real users, and bring that intelligence back to our product and engineering teams.
This role is crucial because you'll be shaping how the developer community perceives and adopts Lightpanda during our critical early growth phase. The relationships you build and the feedback you gather will directly influence our product roadmap and market positioning.
You'll wear multiple hats in this role. Your work will span community engagement, content creation, technical support, and strategic feedback loops with our team.