Senior Manager, Field/Event Marketing
Within the United States /
Product /
Full Time
We are expanding our team! You can be anywhere in the U.S. and in the Pacific time zone outside of the U.S., and in other various countries as noted for specified positions.
At Temporal, we are on a mission to remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud. If you want to solve hard distributed system problems, have a passion for open source software and building a strong developer community, then come join us in our mission. Temporal enables developers to focus on writing important business logic, and not on managing state or worrying about the underlying infrastructure. The Temporal platform is being trusted by top-tier companies as a core technology in their mission critical systems. Our active open source community of developers, who are also our users, provide us with real-time feedback and contributions. We're backed by top VC firms, have closed Series B and have a team of professionals from start-ups and larger companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, Apple, Cisco and more.
You will drive the strategy, execution, and return on investment of trade shows/conferences, local field events, company conferences, and internal events. You'll work very closely with demand generation, product marketing, sales, solution architecture, and developer advocacy teams.
This opportunity requires someone with excellent organization and planning skills who can work autonomously with minimal supervision but can also work effectively with others collaborating within a team environment. Someone who thrives in a very fast-growing, high-energy corporate environment that demands and rewards leadership, initiative, resourcefulness, and individual contribution.
What you'll do
* Lead the strategic planning of the annual and quarterly events calendar and budget
* Plan, execute, and handle all aspects of conference sponsorships, including coordination of logistics such as equipment, catering, marketing collateral, promotional giveaways, and company travel requirements
* Lead and execute planning bi-annual internal company-wide events
* Work with the marketing demand generation team to plan and execute engagement and nurture programs before, during, and after each conference
* Handle individual event budgets, with a focus on delivering high-quality leads and generating pipeline, while maximizing the return on investment of each event
* Manage external vendor relationships, including negotiating budgets and contracts
* Work closely with internal teams to ensure each event meets the overall goals of the company
* Act as the primary organizer of Replay, Temporal’s annual developer conference
* Up to 50% travel during peak conference season, averaging roughly 25-30% travel annually
What you bring to us
* Min 5 years of successful field marketing experience for B2B high tech, SaaS, and/or Cloud industry
* Experience using Eventbrite, Lu.ma, and/or other event management platforms
* Experience leading and executing event sponsorship efforts, including evaluating sponsorship contracts and fulfilling deliverables (booth selection, lead retrieval, swag, etc.)
* Experience organizing the multi-channel event experience to boost event engagement and return on investment, including email, web, and social marketing programs
* Experience organizing and managing large-scale, multi-day events
* Able to work in a complex, highly collaborative team environment
* Excellent written and spoken communication with the ability to write marketing collateral in multiple tones/voices as appropriate
* Superb organization skills, ability to track deliverables across multiple events to ensure we don’t miss key deadlines
* Experience using Marketo and Salesforce is a plus
Additional perks
*A new category of software
*Collaborative, productive, and fun team
*Competitive salary
*Equity
*Unlimited time-off
*Medical, dental (including ortho), & vision benefits (premiums paid by company)
*AD&D, long and short - term disability, life insurance (standard and supplemental)
*HSA + employer contribution
*Employee Assistance Program
*Wellness allowance ($) per month
*401K plan
*$1000 annually for home office setup in addition to company issued hardware
What team members bring to the table
First principles and critical thinking skills, good design sensibilities, experience working in or with distributed systems and the challenges they bring, and a passion for advancing the state of the art along with the potential to change the way developers everywhere write distributed applications.
What team members are doing at Temporal
Collaborating daily with highly technical and truly brilliant leaders in the field, drawing pictures and writing words around architecture, design and implementation of innovative systems and software. Writing clean code either building on or utilizing Temporal to make the world a better place by providing value to developers through world-class open source and hosted software.
We're currently investing in our
*Developer Community
*Infra, Open Source Server platform and Open Source Client Runtime/SDK to support many programming languages
*SaaS offering
*Best in-class Frontend
Technology we enjoy
*The right tool for the job
*Entirely cloud-based infrastructure
*A variety of programming languages
*CNCF projects and cloud native tooling
*Managed services with clean APIs
*Open Source Software
*Hashicorp Software
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate difference and diversity.
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