Events Manager, Experiential Marketing

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About the Opportunity

The organization is growing its team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. The platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, the organization empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join the team!

Bringing users together through events is core to the organization's marketing strategy, from educational livestreams and product office hours to community meetups and a global user conference.

As the Experiential Marketing team continues to grow, the organization is hiring a seasoned Events Manager to help scale how programs are planned, executed, and operationalized. This is a newly created role focused on building the systems, processes, and infrastructure that power events and the team.

This role is approximately 60% event operations and systems-building, and 40% event production, with travel required at least once per quarter.

As an Events Manager, you’ll play a critical role in enabling Tier 1 conferences, including the annual user conference, by owning end-to-end event technology and establishing strong operational foundations for the team. You’ll also contribute to the execution of smaller community events and third-party sponsorships, helping ensure consistency and quality across every touchpoint.

This is a full-time role that can be held from one of the organization's US hubs or remotely in the United States.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale operational systems and processes to support the organization’s growing experiential marketing team
• Own and manage end-to-end event technology for Tier 1 events, including registration platforms and reporting
• Establish best practices for event planning, execution, and post-event analysis to improve efficiency and consistency across programs
• Develop and track key event metrics (e.g., attendance, engagement, pipeline impact), and partner cross-functionally to measure success

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• Own relationships with event technology and production vendors, ensuring seamless execution and continuous optimization
• Own planning and execution of key workstreams, like registration framework and strategy, for the annual user conference
• Support in developing strategy and executing smaller-scale community events, developer events, and third-party sponsorships
• Support on-site execution, including logistics, run-of-show management, and post-event retrospectives

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in event production, event technology, event marketing, or related fields
• Strong experience building or improving event operations, systems and processes
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills with marketing, partnerships, and brand teams
• Familiarity with the organization's platform and a strategic mindset with a hands-on approach; you’re comfortable switching between high-level planning and detailed execution
• A passion for creating meaningful attendee experiences and a deep familiarity with event tech stack optimization and integrations

The organization values "Grow as you go." The belief is in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in the organization’s San Francisco or New York hub offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

The organization offers equity to employees, as well a competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave & reproductive or family planning support, mental health & wellness benefits, generous PTO, company recharge days, a learning & development stipend, a work from home stipend, and cell phone reimbursement. The organization also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Annual Base Salary Range:

$115,000—$269,000 USD

The organization celebrates and supports differences. It is known that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows employees, the product, and the community to flourish. The organization is an equal opportunity workplace - dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants are also considered regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

The organization will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If accommodation is required, please reach out to the appropriate contact. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.

Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Holding interviews in an accessible location
• Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing
• Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers
• Changing the mode or format of interviews

To ensure the integrity of the hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, candidates are required to keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired, you will be required to attend in person onboarding.

By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with the organization's Candidate Privacy Notice.