Event Marketing Manager – EMEA

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement Coder’s EMEA event initiatives, encompassing trade shows, conferences, summits, and partner activations.

• Oversee event schedules, budgets, vendor management, contracts, staffing strategies, registration, logistics, shipping, and on-site execution.

• Collaborate with DevRel and Product Marketing to design event experiences tailored for developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and technical buyers.

• Ensure event strategy aligns with Sales account objectives, including meeting targets, pipeline development, and follow-up activities.

• Generate pre-event and post-event communications, which include outreach to attendees, internal briefings, speaker preparation, staff guides, and follow-up strategies.

• Manage Coder’s participation in open-source, developer, AI infrastructure, cloud, and platform engineering events.

• Determine which events Coder should attend, sponsor, host, or forgo based on audience suitability, business objectives, and community relevance.

• Cultivate relationships with agencies, production teams, venues, event organizers, swag vendors, and various external partners.

• Monitor event performance metrics such as attendance, engagement, meetings, leads, pipeline influence, sourced pipeline, and qualitative feedback.

• Travel as necessary to assist with on-site event execution and ensure seamless program operations.

• Work closely with Marketing, Sales, Developer Relations, Product Marketing, and partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must reside in the UK.

• 4–7 years of experience in event marketing positions.

• Proven expertise in planning and executing events comprehensively, including logistics, communications, vendor management, timelines, budgets, and on-site details.

• Exceptional program management capabilities.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Proficiency in creating event playbooks, briefing documents, run-of-show plans, staffing guides, and post-event reports.

• Experience in marketing to developers, DevOps teams, platform engineers, infrastructure teams, or other technical audiences is preferred.

• Background in open-source communities, developer ecosystems, or technical community programs is preferred.

• Familiarity with developer conferences and communities such as KubeCon, GitHub Universe, Open Source Summit, DevOpsDays, HashiConf, or similar events is preferred.

• Experience with account-based marketing and sales-aligned event strategies is preferred.

• Familiarity with event technology and marketing systems like Cvent, Luma, HubSpot, Salesforce, or 6sense is preferred.

• Proficient with tools such as Asana, Salesforce, HubSpot or Marketo, event platforms, ABM tools, shared content systems, and internal planning documents.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity offerings.

• Bonus opportunities.

• Remote work flexibility.

• Travel assistance as needed for event execution.