Marketing & Events Lead

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$100K/yr – $150K/yrManagerFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and scale event programs and community engagement from sponsorships to pipeline, with a strong focus on cross-partner collaborations and storytelling.

  • Event strategy and sponsorships: identify high-impact opportunities and secure logistics and partnerships.
  • End-to-end event delivery: plan, source venues, run ops, and execute on the day.
  • Lead generation and community storytelling: turn event presence into measurable pipeline and publish customer success stories.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identify events, conferences, and hackathons worth attending or sponsoring, and secure the sponsorships and logistics to get us there.
  • Plan and run high-quality events and hackathons end-to-end: scheduling, venue and location sourcing, ops, and on-the-day execution.
  • Reach out to other companies to co-host and co-sponsor, and coordinate the organizational work across partners.
  • Drive lead generation from events and turn our presence into measurable pipeline.
  • Set up and grow our newsletter, and own ongoing engagement with the community.
  • Collect and publish customer success stories that show what teams build on Manufact.
  • Support the founders and team with event presence, talks, and logistics.

Requirements

  • Experience planning and running events, meetups, or community programs end-to-end.
  • Strong organizational skills. You can own multiple workstreams in parallel without being managed.
  • Exceptional writing. You can turn a technical product and a customer win into a clear, compelling story.
  • Startup speed. You work fast with little process.
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
  • You've used the mcp-use SDK / tried Manufact before applying.

Nice to have

  • A network within the AI, MCP, or developer-tools communities.
  • A track record growing social accounts, newsletters, or company brand.
  • Experience marketing dev tools or technical platforms.
  • Experience negotiating and contracting event sponsorships.
  • Familiarity with analytics and growth tactics for content and events.

Benefits

  • Burn a lot of tokens
  • Above market equity
  • Premium medical + dependent coverage
  • Small, trusting team of senior + staff engineers
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401k + company match
  • Relocation assistance
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Helping dev teams build and deploy MCP agents and MCP servers.mcp-use is building open-source dev tools and infrastructure for MCP.

San Francisco, California, USA
2 employees

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
18.4%
Direct
48.6%
Referral
25%
Social
6.8%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3

Marketing Team

Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$6.8M
Last Raise
$6.3M
Seed, 1 months ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Seed • $6.3M
  • Sep 2025
    Pre Seed • $500K