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title: 'Developer Relations at Phonic'
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# Developer Relations at Phonic

- **Company:** Phonic
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/phonic/b330b997-0c29-421f-a4a1-2438a0086c06

## Job description

## About Phonic

Phonic is a voice AI model company focused on powering the most realistic, human-like voice AI conversations. We've re-thought the entire stack in pursuit of this goal, from models to product, to create voice agents that feel like they truly understand you, respond emotionally and perform agentic tasks with frontier intelligence. Our team includes top-tier AI researchers, international olympiad medalists, and former founders. Our customers include companies that are building voice-native AI products in industries such as customer support, healthcare, and logistics.

## About the Team

Phonic has a very talent dense and close-knit team. We collaborate with high trust and are constantly trying to improve how we work to deliver world-class research and product. Everyone takes ownership in what they do and they aren’t afraid to dive in headfirst into new problems. We are fully in-person in our San Francisco office.

## The Role

As our first Developer Relations hire, you'll single handedly own technical content marketing, product marketing, and brand marketing at Phonic. You won't be one spoke in a big marketing org, you'll be the whole wheel. A typical day might start with editing a technical blog post the team drafted, tightening it into something sharp enough to publish that week, and then move into crafting product demos for our social accounts.

## What You'll Do

- Write and edit technical blog posts turning drafts from the team (engineers, founders) into clean, publishable content for a technical audience
- Own product marketing translating what we're building into positioning and messaging that customers and prospects immediately understand
- Write and post witty, sharp content for our company social media accounts
- If there's interest, you can support the sales pipeline taking on deal next steps (follow-ups, materials, coordination) to keep every deal moving with velocity

## What You'll Bring

- Clean, coherent writing: You can take a rough draft, technical or not, and make it tight and clear
- A wit and voice for social media: You write posts that are sharp and memorable, not corporate-bland
- Storytelling ability: You can turn "what we built" into a compelling, coherent vision of where we're going
- A degree from a top school
- 2-5 years of relevant experience in technical marketing

## Nice to Have

- Interest in sales/ops — comfortable taking deal next steps and helping close
- Prior Developer Relations experience elsewhere (agencies, other startups, or larger dev-tool companies)
- You don't need to be deeply technical to succeed in this role

## Benefits

- 💸 Top-tier compensation: in order to get the best talent, we provide salary and equity that recognize your skillset
- 🥗 Meals: free breakfast, lunch, and dinner provided in the office
- 🩺 Healthcare: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision
- 🤝 We have regular off-sites and team celebrations

## About Phonic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Phonic builds a speech-to-speech voice agent platform for enterprises, powered by proprietary audio foundation models to deliver natural, reliable conversations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Moin Nadeem, Nikhil Murthy

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Voice AI, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Enterprises deploying voice agents for customer support, operations, and high-trust interactions (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To make talking to voice AIs as simple and reliable as talking to humans.”

## Products & Services
- **[Phonic Platform]**: An end-to-end speech-to-speech platform for building, evaluating, and deploying voice agents. Features include real-time intelligence, observability, searchable interaction records, and containerized deployment within the customer’s environment. Leverages proprietary audio foundation models for low-latency (under 300ms) conversational voices.
- **[Maven Voice]**: An enterprise-grade AI voice agent built on Phonic’s platform, announced in August 2025 for chaotic, noisy, and unpredictable real-world situations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: $4M (Seed round, April 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investor: Lux Capital
  - Angel investors include: Clement Delangue (Hugging Face CEO), Erik Bernhardsson (Modal), Michele Catasta, Douwe Kiela, Amjad Masad, Qasar Younis
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Seed round of $4M closed in April 2025 with strong investor backing from AI infrastructure leaders.
  - Employee count grew from founding team to ~18 as of April 2026 (estimated 18 from Tracxn; LinkedIn reported 6 in early 2026 before recent hires).
  - Launched Maven Voice in partnership with Maven AGI in August 2025, demonstrating enterprise traction.
  - Active hiring (engineering, research) indicates scaling phase.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary audio foundation models** that enable speech-to-speech within 300ms, achieving a natural conversational flow that rivals human interaction.
- **Full observability and evaluation stack** — built right into the platform so enterprises can monitor, debug, and improve agent conversations over time.
- **Secure, containerized deployment** — runs completely in the customer’s environment, addressing enterprise security and compliance requirements.
- **Real-time insights and failure analysis** across millions of agents, providing a system of record for voice interactions.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the most reliable speech-to-speech platform for enterprise-grade voice agents.
- Expand use cases beyond customer support into high-trust verticals such as healthcare, finance, and insurance.
- Grow the engineering and research team, particularly researchers experienced in audio modeling and production engineers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: In-person, collaborative team in San Francisco (onsite workspace). The company emphasizes doing meaningful work in a fun environment.
- **Team**: Small, high-caliber team of researchers and engineers from top backgrounds (MIT, Jane Street, Robinhood, Hugging Face). Flat hierarchy with direct impact.
- **Mission**: Opportunity to define how humans interact with voice AI at scale, tackling reliability and naturalness challenges.
- **Perks**: Not publicly detailed, but typical early-stage startup benefits include equity, flexible PTO, and the chance to shape product and culture.
- **Growth**: Rapidly growing after a well‑funded seed round; new hires can expect high ownership and accelerated career development.

## Sources
1. [phonic.co](https://phonic.co/)
2. [phonic.co/company](https://phonic.co/company)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/phonic)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/phonic-co)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/phonic/__4TPVIPNDFpbV6xRNF8_OeUI3ZQMO-qYLkT5bm53BIx0)

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