Docker, Inc

Docker, Inc

Senior Event Operations Manager

United States · Senior · Full-time

No sponsorshipDetected 14 days ago
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About the role

  • Docker has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls.
  • As AI agents redefine software development, Docker is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that make autonomous workflows trustworthy by default.

Responsibilities

  • Own operational execution across the event portfolio - major conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - managing timelines, project plans, and execution milestones across multiple concurrent events, and keeping them on schedule, on budget, and aligned to internal goals.
  • Maintain a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies across programs.
  • Manage event registration, attendee experience, and lead capture and badging across the portfolio.
  • Build scalable event operations: repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks, continuously simplifying and improving execution over time.
  • Own the event technology stack (registration, mobile apps, lead retrieval) and ensure data flows cleanly into marketing and sales systems.
  • Own end-to-end event budgets, including purchase orders, invoicing, and post-event reconciliation.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Field Marketing, and Sales, translating program goals into clear operational plans.
  • Operationalize developer-focused programs - roadshows, community activations, and flagship conference experiences - and build frameworks that let them expand to additional markets over time.
  • Track event KPIs and pipeline/ROI, run post-event debriefs, and lead reconciliation and timely handoff to sales.
  • Provide operational and logistics support to Field Marketing across regional events, roadshows, and third-party/sponsored events, including sponsorship deliverables, booth and presence logistics, and lead retrieval.

Requirements

  • 6+ years in full-time, professional event management, event operations, and/or experiential program management.
  • Strong project management skills, with a track record coordinating complex programs across multiple stakeholders and concurrent events without losing attention to detail.
  • Must have the ability to travel 35% of the time across North America, with potential for international travel
  • Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve.
  • for this role, you must have the ability to travel 35% of the time across North America, along with international travel as-needed.
  • we want you comfortable while you work
  • Hands-on vendor, agency, and production-partner management, including contracts, budgets, and performance.
  • Comfortable using AI to scale repeatable processes without sacrificing quality.
  • Familiarity with event and marketing tech (registration platforms, lead retrieval, mobile apps) and how event data flows into Salesforce and Marketo and lead management workflows.
  • Experience building operational frameworks or playbooks that let event programs scale.
  • FIRST 30 DAYS
  • Immerse in Docker's event portfolio, the master calendar, the event tech stack, and current vendor and agency relationships.
  • Audit live programs and operational processes

Nice to have

  • Developer, technical, or enterprise event experience is highly preferred
  • background in SaaS, developer platforms, cloud, or technology companies is an advantage.
  • Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break

Skills

  • As the portfolio grows, operational excellence is what lets it scale without added risk or complexity.

Compensation

  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month

Benefits

  • Home office setup
  • 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
  • Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
  • PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
  • Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
  • Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
  • Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company

Company info

  • we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
  • The more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Provide operational and logistics support to Field Marketing across regional events, roadshows, and third-party/sponsored events, including sponsorship deliverables, booth and presence logistics, and lead retrieval.
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