Goodfire
Strategic Events Lead
San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago
Machine LearningProject ManagementResearch
About the role
- You won't be optimizing a legacy events calendar
- Our audience is selective and highly technical.
Responsibilities
- Own the events strategy and calendar: identify the moments, formats, audiences, and geographies where Goodfire should show up
- Design high-signal experiences: create events that feel substantive to AI researchers, ML engineers, CTOs, Heads of AI, and other deeply technical buyers
- Execute with precision: manage vendors, budgets, run-of-show, speaker prep, attendee experience, follow-up, and every operational detail that determines quality
- Build targeted invite and attendance strategy: partner with GTM, demand gen, and field teams to reach the right accounts and convert attendance into relationship momentum
- Scrappiness, urgency, and comfort building a function from scratch in a fast-moving environment
Requirements
- Experience planning and executing high-quality B2B events, field marketing programs, community programs, or executive gatherings.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to run many operational details without losing sight of strategy.
- you know how to make an event feel substantive, polished, and not generic.
- Required experience
Nice to have
- Experience creating events for technical audiences, developer communities, AI/ML teams, infrastructure buyers, or research organizations.
- Background as an early events, field marketing, community, or demand generation hire at a high-growth startup.
- Experience with conference strategy, speaker programming, executive dinners, private roundtables, or partner events.
- Ability to translate event outcomes into account insights, pipeline reporting, and next-step GTM actions
- Put mission and team first
- We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
- Improve constantly
- We proactively critique ourselves and others in a kind and thoughtful way that translates to practical improvements in the organization.
Compensation
- This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
Benefits
- This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
- Measure and improve the motion: connect events to pipeline, account engagement, market learning, and repeatable playbooks for future programs
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