Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of meetups, conferences, customer receptions, and partner programs from concept to close-out.
• Build and run a monthly technical meetup program in the Bay Area and other cities, drawing speakers and co-hosts from the StarRocks community, customers, and partners, in close coordination with DevRel.
• Plan and host quarterly executive receptions for key customers in partnership with Sales and Customer Success, focused on relationship depth, expansion, and advocacy.
• Lead PhoenixAI's presence at major industry conferences and partner events (e.g., AWS re:Invent) — sponsorship selection, booth, speaking opportunities, and on-site execution.
• Leverage the open-source data ecosystem — community members, other project communities, local meetup organizers — to source speakers, co-hosts, and venues for our events.
• Define the specific objective for each event before it happens — e.g., lead generation, pipeline influence, brand awareness, or customer engagement — and design the event and its metrics around that goal.
• Handle venue selection, sponsorship arrangements, vendor relationships, catering, booth setup, signage, promotional items, shipping, and travel logistics.
• Develop event schedules and keep colleagues, speakers, partners, and vendors aligned and on track.
• Produce landing pages, invites, social content, email outreach, and other materials to promote events.
• Work with speakers on presentations, demos, and run-of-show planning.

Requirements

• 5+ years of field or event marketing experience at a fast-growing tech startup, ideally in the data, infrastructure, or SaaS space.
• Proven experience organizing events for an open-source or developer community — running meetups, community days, contributor gatherings, or community tracks at conferences. This is required.
• Track record of running events end-to-end in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment, from large conference sponsorships to small executive hospitality events.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with internal technical stakeholders such as Solutions Architects, Product Managers, and DevRel.
• Strong vendor and budget management skills.
• Familiarity with event and community tooling (e.g., Luma, Bevy, Splash) and marketing automation / CRM systems (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce).
• Comfortable engaging with technical speakers, partners, prospective customers, sales, and executive leadership.
• Willingness to travel for events and work evenings/weekends as needed around event schedules.
• Must currently be based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred

• An existing network in the open-source data ecosystem (e.g., StarRocks, Apache projects, Linux Foundation events, or the broader data engineering community) that you can draw on for speakers, co-hosts, and venues is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package featuring premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and a 401(k) retirement plan. Employees enjoy at least 16 days of PTO, parental leave, health savings options, and access to our employee assistance program.