Responsibilities

• Build and run the calendar across third-party conferences and tradeshows, hosted Blackthorn events, executive dinners, partner activations, and internal events all focused towards the goal of driving leads and generating pipeline.
• Facilitate the selection of the right events for our ICP and goals, working with event partners to secure sponsorships that maximize our presence and participation.
• Define and uphold how Blackthorn shows up at every event, ensuring brand presence, booth experience, and attendee-facing materials are consistent and on-brand.
• Maintain a single source of truth for upcoming events, status, and outcomes across the team.
• Lead end-to-end logistics for live events (hosted and sponsored) including venue sourcing, vendor management, booth experience, signage, swag, AV, catering, run-of-show, staffing, and travel.
• Develop pre-event, during-event, and post-event plans that maximize attendee engagement and follow-up to drive new business, expansion, upsells, and renewals.
• Brief and prepare Blackthorn staff attendees for each event.
• Partner with Demand Generation to plan promotion, registration, and follow-up motion for every event.
• Coordinate with Content on event messaging, speaker prep, and supporting assets.
• Align with Sales, Customer Success, and Alliances on event selection, attendee strategy, and post-event follow-up.
• Communicate event status, plans, and results to the marketing team and broader business stakeholders on a regular cadence.
• Support webinar and virtual event production.
• Partner with Content and Demand on topic selection, speaker recruitment, promotion, run-of-show, and follow-up.
• Act as stage manager/producer for each event to ensure smooth production for speakers and attendees.
• Manage event data in Salesforce, including campaigns, lists, and attribution.
• Track and report on event performance including registrations, attendance, leads, MQLs, opportunities, and pipeline.
• Deliver post-event reporting and recommendations to inform future investment.
• Own the field marketing budget and track spend against plan across event types.
• Make recommendations on event mix and investment levels based on ROI.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of B2B field marketing, event marketing, or integrated marketing experience, ideally in SaaS or tech.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute live and virtual events, and webinars end-to-end.
• Experience partnering with demand generation, content, and sales on integrated event campaigns.
• Strategic mindset: You think beyond logistics to how events drive brand, pipeline, and customer outcomes.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent events.
• Experience owning an event budget.
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, including campaigns, lists, and basic reporting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, globally distributed, remote-first environment.
• U.S.-based and eligible to work in the U.S.
• Willing to travel approximately 15–25% for events.

Preferred

• Familiarity with Blackthorn-adjacent verticals (higher education, non-profit, healthcare).
• Hands-on with event tech (Blackthorn, Cvent, Splash, Bizzabo) and webinar platforms (Zoom Webinars, Goldcast, ON24).
• Marketing automation experience (preferably Pardot).
• Partner or co-marketing experience.

Benefits

• An incredible team of smart and supportive people
• A deep feeling of satisfaction and completion
• Fully remote global team working from home
• Stock options for every employee
• Flexible work week
• $400 office stipend
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Student loan debt assistance
• Pledge 1% - time off during the year for helping nonprofits
• Health insurance contribution (if in the US)