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Manager of Events (Remote)
Marketing – Marketing
remote: San Francisco, CA
added Tue Oct 24, 2023
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Reporting to the Head of Demand Generation, the Manager of Events will be responsible for planning and executing our global events strategy.
The Manager of Events will partner closely with the Head of Demand Generation, manage two direct reports, and collaborate with the entire Growth team as well as external partners to organize flagship events with commercial motions. They’ll also partner closely with our CRO and GTM leadership to establish a tight loop between Growth and Sales, both pre- and post-event. This person is expected both to execute event strategy and the tactics for major events in the US and EMEA.

Responsibilities

  • Strategize, plan, and coordinate major company events (e.g. user conference, trade shows, field events) to include venue selection, contract negotiation, speakers, sponsors, invitees, logistics, AV & webinar setup, registration, email blasts, direct mailers, budget reconciliation, e-marketing systems management, swag requests, etc.
  • As part of the demand generation team be accountable for a pipeline goal
  • Build out the annual events plan to support our community and sales motions
  • Manage budget development and setting of income targets for each event
  • Responsible for the entire event from promotion, attendance to follow-up with lead-pipeline capture. Work closely with the sales and sales development teams on pre-event communications and event lead follow-up
  • Solicit internal and external feedback and manage post-event program evaluations to ensure learnings, results, ROI, and areas for improvement are effectively captured
  • Create unique event experiences that communicate the company’s ethos in service of its value proposition and GTM motions
  • Project management of materials creation, staffing, on-site set-up, and logistics, working with a range of stakeholders, including agency partners, product and field marketing teams, and executive staff

Requirements

  • +7-10 years of experience in program/event marketing role in a fast-paced SaaS environment
  • Experience in managing a team while being very hands-on
  • Organized, detail-oriented, and highly motivated with project management experience in a deadline-driven environment
  • Executive presence: knows how to interact with senior leaders (VP-level, CxO, MD) at public & private companies, venture firms, key customers, key prospects
  • Ability to travel in North America and potentially EMEA to attend highly strategic events
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Why join us?

  • Top-tier machine learning teams rely on our tools for their daily work at companies including OpenAI, Toyota Research Institute, Lyft, Samsung, and Pandora.
  • You'll never stop learning. This role gives you first-hand experience talking with leading researchers in the field, understanding their problems, and directly shaping the product direction.
  • Our experienced founding team has successfully built and sold ML tools in the past at Figure Eight, and their deep knowledge of our industry, empathy for our users, and skillful management is driving W&B to success.
  • Customers genuinely benefit from our tool. Here's a quote from Wojciech Zaremba, Cofounder and Robotics Lead, OpenAI: "W&B allows to scale up insights from a single researcher to the entire team, and from a single machine to hundreds of them."

Our benefits

  • 🏝️ Flexible time off
  • 🩺 Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and Family Coverage
  • 🏠 Remote first culture with in-office flexibility in San Francisco
  • 💵 Home office budget with a new high-powered laptop
  • 🥇 Truly competitive salary and equity
  • 🚼 12 weeks of Parental leave (U.S. specific)
  • 📈 401(k) (U.S. specific)
  • Supplemental benefits may be available depending on your location
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We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description as we seek out diverse and creative perspectives. Team members who love to learn and collaborate in an inclusive environment will flourish with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process, reach out at careers@wandb.com.
At Weights & Biases, our mission is to build the best developer tools for machine learning. Weights & Biases is a series C company with $200 million in funding and a rapidly growing user base. Our platform is an essential piece of the daily work for machine learning engineers, from academic research institutions like FAIR and UC Berkeley to massive enterprise teams including iRobot, OpenAI, Toyota Research Institute, Samsung, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Lyft, and more.