Audience and Events Marketing Manager

USA (Remote)

$110K/yr – $130K/yrMid Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end Summit audience growth and lifecycle messaging with HubSpot at the center, coordinating high-touch outreach, strategic partnerships, and alumni networks to drive registrations and premium attendee experiences.

  • Audience ownership: relationship-driven growth through founder recruiting, partnerships, and alumni engagement.
  • Ops & data: HubSpot-centric workflows, registration ops, on-site readiness, and data-driven optimization.
  • Cross-functional execution: align with Sales, Partnerships, and operations to expand channels and improve lifecycle touchpoints.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and grow the Summit audience through relationship-driven outreach, founder recruiting, strategic partnerships, alumni engagement, and targeted marketing campaigns
  • Pull attendee history and lifecycle data from HubSpot, deduplicating across internal lists, and coordinating high-touch invite campaigns
  • Partner with the Sales and Partnership team to expand audience acquisition through referrals, ecosystem partnerships, and new growth channels
  • Cultivate year-round relationships with alumni, partners, referral sources, and ecosystem leaders, while serving as a trusted ambassador for WaitWhat’s experiences
  • Own the Summit marketing calendar, including registration campaigns, promotional pushes, partner activations, and audience growth initiatives
  • Develop integrated marketing campaigns across email, web, social, newsletters, and paid channels—from strategy and messaging through creative briefs, production, and execution
  • Manage the internal review and approval process for campaign materials, exercising judgment on when to escalate to senior leadership
  • Track campaign performance and conversion metrics, continuously optimizing messaging, segmentation, and audience acquisition strategies
  • Own attendee communications across the full event lifecycle, from registration confirmation through post-event follow-up, developing communication strategies that create a premium attendee experience
  • Serve as WaitWhat’s primary point of contact for Summit attendees, providing prompt, polished, and high-touch customer service to executives and founders
  • Coordinate communications across speakers, partners and operations. Gather attendee feedback through post-event surveys and translate insights into improvements for future experiences
  • Own HubSpot and registration operations, including workflows, automation, billing, reporting, discount codes, and attendee lifecycle management
  • Oversee data integrations between HubSpot and event platforms, including attendee data pushes, badge category assignments, and on-site check-in readiness
  • Triage escalated customer service inquiries from the contract support team, resolving registration and application issues through HubSpot due diligence
  • Build reporting dashboards and provide regular insights on audience composition, pipeline health, conversion rates, and registration trends
  • Continuously improve systems, workflows, and operational processes to support future growth

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in audience development, event marketing, growth marketing, or community building, with a demonstrated track record of building and growing communities for high-profile in-person events; background in media, content, or entertainment industries a plus
  • Strong relationship-building instincts and proven ability to drive event registration and attendance through a blend of high-touch outreach, strategic partnerships, and data-informed marketing campaigns
  • Expertise with HubSpot, CRM strategy, segmentation, workflow automation, and data-driven campaign optimization
  • Strong editorial and copywriting skills with the ability to craft compelling, audience-appropriate messaging across channels, from executive-facing invitations to broad promotional campaigns
  • Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects with competing deadlines and shifting priorities; you are exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable holding others accountable to timelines
  • Familiarity with event technology platforms and comfort managing data flows between CRM and event registration systems
  • Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with experience working alongside senior leaders, partners, and high-profile talent
  • Personal interest in entrepreneurship, business leadership, innovation, and emerging technologies
  • Comfort operating with a high degree of autonomy in a lean, distributed team; you know when to make the call and when to flag it
  • Creative problem-solving instincts; you are undeterred by ambiguity and energized by building processes where none exist

Benefits

  • wellness benefits to full-time employees, including Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, disability and life Insurance, and a flexible PTO policy among other perks
  • We are an anti-racist organization, committed to equity and diversity of all kinds — on our team, among our investors, and as represented on our media properties. Kindness and honesty are hallmarks of our culture and critical filters in our hiring process.
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WaitWhat produces podcasts, video, live events, and unique partnership experiences all aimed at elevating the boldest voices in business. Featuring iconic guests and industry leaders, our award-winning original properties include Masters of Scale (co-hosted by Silicon Valley visionary Reid Hoffman), Rapid Response (hosted by former Fast Company editor-in-chief Bob Safian), and Pioneers of AI (hosted by computer scientist and AI investor Dr. Rana el Kaliouby). We host regular live events in major cities across the country, culminating in our premier leadership conference — Masters of Scale Summit — hosted annually in San Francisco.Our mission is to provide people with the ideas, information, and inspiration they need to reach their full potential in their lives and careers.

Founded in 2017
46 employees (25 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
4.5K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~46

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (33% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$16.3M
Last Raise
$12M
Series B, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2021
    Series B • $12M
  • Feb 2019
    Series A • $4.3M