Event Marketing Manager (EMEA)

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Coder’s EMEA event programs, including trade shows, conferences, summits, and partner activations.
• Manage event timelines, budgets, vendors, contracts, staffing plans, registration, logistics, shipping, and on-site execution.
• Partner with DevRel and Product Marketing to create event experiences that resonate with developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and technical buyers.
• Work with Sales to align event strategy to account priorities, meeting goals, pipeline creation, and follow-up motions.
• Create pre-event and post-event communications, including attendee outreach, internal briefings, speaker prep, staff guides, and follow-up plans.
• Coordinate Coder’s presence at open-source, developer, ai infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering events.
• Help identify the right events for Coder to attend, sponsor, host, or skip based on audience fit, business goals, and community relevance.
• Manage relationships with agencies, production teams, venues, event organizers, swag vendors, and other external partners.
• Track event performance across attendance, engagement, meetings, leads, pipeline influence, sourced pipeline, and qualitative feedback.
• Travel as needed to support hands-on event execution and ensure every program runs smoothly.

Requirements

• Must be located in the UK
• 4–7 years of experience in event marketing roles.
• Strong experience planning and executing events from start to finish, including logistics, communications, vendors, timelines, budgets, and on-site details.
• Excellent program management skills. You can manage multiple moving parts, keep stakeholders aligned, and bring order to complex work.
• High attention to detail. You catch issues early, document clearly, and make sure the small things do not become big problems.
• Create event playbooks, briefing docs, run-of-show plans, staffing guides, and post-event reports.

Preferred

• Experience marketing to developers, DevOps teams, platform engineers, infrastructure teams, or other technical audiences.
• Experience working in or around open-source communities, developer ecosystems, or technical community programs.
• Experience supporting open-source projects, foundations, community events, or contributor programs.
• Familiarity with developer conferences and communities such as KubeCon, GitHub Universe, Open Source Summit, DevOpsDays, HashiConf, or similar events.
• Experience with account-based marketing and sales-aligned event motions.
• Experience with event technology and marketing systems such as, Cvent, Luma, HubSpot, Salesforce, or 6sense.