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About Joy

October 8, 2026

Technical Marketing, Communications, GTM and Community Leadership for Frontier AI Labs and Neolabs

I enjoy leading teams that help AI researchers and frontier AI labs bring safe superintelligence to global markets.

What I'm looking for in 2026:
A marketing, communications, GTM or community leadership role inside a frontier AI lab or neolab. I spend most of my time observing how labs explain their models and research, how they reach the developers and AI researchers who matter, and how their communities grow. I publish what I track as public resources, including the Frontier AI Lab Tracker, the Neolab and Emerging AI Lab Tracker, the AI Coding Landscape, and the AI Research & AI Safety Programs Map, which AI researchers, investors, and others in the community use as references.

Previously, I dedicated over 16 years to marketing leadership at venture-backed startups, leading high-performance teams and bringing category-defining products to millions of users, developers, and enterprises across artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and B2B SaaS. As a marketing and communications leader, I collaborated closely with visionary founders, VCs, engineering teams, and practitioners to build exceptional 0-to-1 early-stage and growth-stage companies — contributing to 3x exits.

I believe passion and curiosity make me a valued member of any technical executive team researching and currently building frontier AI.

2026 focus areas:
◦ Technical Product Marketing: Models, Platforms, and APIs
◦ Model and Research Launches
◦ AI Safety and Mechanistic Interpretability Communications
◦ AI Researcher and AI Practitioner Community Programs
◦ AI Go-To-Market Strategy


For my 2026 speaking engagements, please visit: https://cleverhack.com/speaking

To view my LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joylarkin

If you're hiring at a frontier AI lab or neolab, I'd love to talk.

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