--- title: 'Social Media Lead at SkyPilot' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/social-media-lead-skypilot-san-mateo-qcgwm291pkys' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Social Media Lead at SkyPilot - **Company:** SkyPilot - **Location:** San Mateo, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot/am9icG9zdDpLt7l5V3FzakrCDmkSrKnV ## Job description ## About SkyPilot [SkyPilot](https://skypilot.ai/) accelerates the world's most ambitious AI teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute across clusters into one optimized, highly available and easy-to-use pool: a single AI supercomputer. SkyPilot (10k+ GitHub stars, 18M+ downloads) manages the GPU fleets of 100s of companies, from Fortune 500s to top AI-natives like Abridge, Applied Compute, Mistral, Unconventional AI, H Company, and Nubank, with usage growing exponentially. Born in the UC Berkeley lab behind Spark and Databricks, our growing team includes top-tier talent from Databricks, Google, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, and Cornell. To date, SkyPilot has raised over $20M in seed funding from top investors (incl. Lux, Coatue, Amplify) and operators (incl. Ali Ghodsi, Jeff Dean, Guillermo Rauch, Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Aaron Levie). ## The role We're hiring a Social Media Lead to own SkyPilot’s public voice end to end. You'll decide what we sound like, what each channel is for, and which moments are worth putting our weight behind. You'll get our engineers and founders posting credibly about their own work. This is a hands-on role. You will set the strategy and you will write most of the posts. If you want to direct contractors and approve calendars, this isn't it. Developers dislike marketing that sounds like marketing. That’s part of the fun! ## What you'll do - Own the strategy and content. Decide where SkyPilot shows up, what each channel is for, and what goes there. We’d rather post four things a week that land than twenty that don’t. - Write the posts. Turn blogs, feature announcements and customer stories into posts worth reading. - Run launches. Own social for every launch, release and conference — teasers, day-of, demo clips, follow-up — alongside product marketing, devrel, and design. - Get the team posting. Help our engineers and founders post credibly about their own work, amplify the strongest of it, and build the scorecard that tells us what landed. ## What we're looking for - 2+ years leading social or a related marketing function at a company with a technical audience. Bonus if it was infrastructure or open source. We care more about the work you can show us than the years behind it. - Excellent taste in writing and design. You know what makes a post land, and you can tell which graphic or clip is great. - You love experimenting. You like trying new formats, odd angles, topics adjacent to our own. Some of it won't work. Some of it will. Experimentation is key. - You’re obsessed about high-impact posts. You are analytical about the reach, traffic, etc. You know what metrics matter and how to move them. - Editorial judgment per platform — knowing the tone and style for each, and what content is worth posting where. - Enough technical/AI literacy to read a blog post, a benchmark or a pull request and write about it. ## What we offer - Competitive compensation and equity. - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage for you and your dependents. - Company 401(k) plan. - The chance to work with some of the best minds in cloud, distributed, and AI systems — with significant autonomy and ownership. - A front-row seat at the latest open-source infra startup from Berkeley. - Gourmet lunch & dinner for the team to do their best work. Location: San Mateo, CA. Remote will be considered for exceptional candidates. ## About SkyPilot ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: SkyPilot provides a unified AI compute platform that turns fragmented GPU clusters across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and on-premises resources into a single, manageable “AI supercomputer.” - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $20M) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA - **Founded**: Not publicly available (company launched from stealth in July 2026; technology originated from UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab) - **Founders**: Zongheng Yang (CEO), Zhanghao Wu, Romil Bhardwaj, alongside Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and networking pioneer Scott Shenker (both Berkeley professors) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / cloud computing orchestration - **Target customers**: Frontier AI teams – including research labs, foundation model builders, healthcare, financial services, and large enterprises – that need to manage large-scale GPU fleets across multiple providers. - **Mission / Purpose**: “Turn fragmented compute into one AI supercomputer” so that AI teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building intelligence. ## Products & Services - **[SkyPilot Platform (Managed)](https://skypilot.ai)**: A managed control plane that abstracts heterogeneous compute (Kubernetes, Slurm, VMs, hyperscalers, neoclouds) into a single pool. Supports interactive development, pre‑training at scale, sandboxes for RL/agents, multi‑cluster serving, and production workloads. Includes GPU health monitoring, auto‑remediation, HA, quota management, SSO, RBAC, and SOC 2 compliance. Customers have seen up to 20x performance improvements over the open‑source version. - **[SkyPilot Open Source](https://skypilot.ai)**: Free, community‑driven project with 14M+ downloads and 280+ contributors. Used by hundreds of organizations to unify compute across 20+ clouds. Provides CLI, intelligent scheduler, GPU monitoring, and multi‑cluster support. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (seed round) - **Key Metric (Private)**: **Total Funding** – $20M seed (July 2026) - **Notable Investors & Partners**: - Lead: Lux Capital - Participants: Amplify Partners, Coatue Management, Foundation Capital, Race Capital, The House Fund - Angel operators: Ali Ghodsi (Databricks), Jeff Dean (Google), Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Amjad Masad (Replit), Clem Delangue (Hugging Face), Tristan Handy (dbt Labs) - Cloud partners: Nebius, CoreWeave, Lambda, AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, SageMaker Hyperpod) - **Growth Signals**: - 14M+ open‑source downloads (6M in last 3 months) - GPU hours consumed grew 35% MoM (6x in last 6 months) - Top deployments: 1,000+ nodes and 10,000+ GPUs - 280+ open‑source contributors - Adopted by Nubank, Abridge, Applied Compute, H Company, Archer, Hippocratic AI ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified abstraction** across 20+ clouds and any accelerator – customers are not locked into a single provider. - **AI‑native scheduling** (topology‑aware, priority queueing, GPU sharing, preemption) that maximizes fleet utilization. - **Proactive GPU health checks** with auto‑remediation – reduces downtime in large training runs. - **Enterprise‑grade security** (BYOC, BYOK, private VPCs, air‑gapped, SOC 2) combined with the agility of an open‑source ecosystem. - **World‑class founding team** – includes a Databricks co‑founder and UC Berkeley systems researchers. ## Strategic Focus - **Product development** – continue building out the managed platform (already 20x faster than OSS). - **Engineering expansion** – actively hiring in engineering and go‑to‑market roles. - **Go‑to‑market growth** – opening platform access to select new customers; scaling sales. - **Open‑source ecosystem** – deepen contributions and community engagement. ## Why Work Here - **Cutting‑edge mission**: Building the foundational infrastructure for the AI industry alongside top hyperscalers and neoclouds. - **Strong team**: Founded by renowned systems researchers and backed by elite investors and AI leaders. - **Traction & growth**: Explosive adoption (6x growth in GPU hours) and a clear product‑market fit with frontier AI teams. - **Autonomy & impact**: Small, fast‑moving startup where engineers can directly shape a control plane used by thousands of GPUs. - **Work policy** – not publicly specified, but typical for a stealth‑stage startup; likely offers flexibility. The team is headquartered in San Francisco. - **Careers**: Open roles in Engineering and GTM (see [SkyPilot on Gem](https://jobs.gem.com/skypilot)). ## Sources 1. [skypilot.ai (homepage)](https://skypilot.ai) 2. [skypilot.ai (about)](https://skypilot.ai/about) 3. [skypilot.ai (funding announcement blog)](https://skypilot.ai/blog/skypilot-the-company) 4. [fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/skypilot-from-databricks-cofounder-raises-20m-to-be-the-switzerland-of-ai-compute/) 5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skypilot-launches-with-20m-to-accelerate-custom-intelligence-for-frontier-ai-teams-302830808.html) ## Other roles at SkyPilot - [Design Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/design-lead-skypilot-san-mateo-nwvkxw12mmvp) — San Mateo, CA - [Motion Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/motion-designer-skypilot-san-mateo-fd8w8wjm0sqe) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-engineering-manager-skypilot-san-mateo-zdacj7x6ywt9) — San Mateo, CA - [GTM Specialist](https://feeny.ai/job/gtm-specialist-skypilot-san-mateo-c1js372pj0j0) — San Mateo, CA - [Product Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-skypilot-san-mateo-ac5fset49yp9) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Product](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-product-skypilot-san-mateo-3fvgs8gy6hqw) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, Platform](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-platform-skypilot-san-mateo-4efm1nkm0rsp) — San Mateo, CA - [Member of Technical Staff, GPU / ML Systems](https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-gpu-ml-systems-skypilot-san-mateo-cjcq4ysp96ka) — San Mateo, CA - [General Application](https://feeny.ai/job/general-application-skypilot-san-mateo-jht04k9gw4xr) — San Mateo, CA - [Founding Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-account-executive-skypilot-san-mateo-jxym4wpcxwb5) — San Mateo, CA