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Senior Event Operations Manager
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$102.2K - $146K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Event Operations Manager
Docker, Inc
• Own operational execution across the event portfolio - major conferences, developer roadshows, digital events, and community activations - managing timelines, project plans, and execution milestones across multiple concurrent events, and keeping them on schedule, on budget, and aligned to internal goals. • Maintain a master event calendar that coordinates timing, resourcing, and dependencies across programs. • Manage event registration, attendee experience, and lead capture and badging across the portfolio. • Build scalable event operations: repeatable planning templates, run-of-show frameworks, and operational playbooks, continuously simplifying and improving execution over time. • Own the event technology stack (registration, mobile apps, lead retrieval) and ensure data flows cleanly into marketing and sales systems. • Manage vendors and logistics: agencies, venues, production vendors, and internal teams, including contract execution, budget tracking, shipping, production schedules, and onsite readiness. • Own end-to-end event budgets, including purchase orders, invoicing, and post-event reconciliation. • Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Product Marketing, Developer Relations, Field Marketing, and Sales, translating program goals into clear operational plans. • Operationalize developer-focused programs - roadshows, community activations, and flagship conference experiences - and build frameworks that let them expand to additional markets over time. • Track event KPIs and pipeline/ROI, run post-event debriefs, and lead reconciliation and timely handoff to sales. • Provide operational and logistics support to Field Marketing across regional events, roadshows, and third-party/sponsored events, including sponsorship deliverables, booth and presence logistics, and lead retrieval.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years in event management, event operations, or experiential program management.
- Strong project management skills, with a track record coordinating complex programs across multiple stakeholders and concurrent events without losing attention to detail.
- Must have the ability to travel 35% of the time across North America, with potential for international travel
- Hands-on vendor, agency, and production-partner management, including contracts, budgets, and performance.
- Comfortable using AI to scale repeatable processes without sacrificing quality.
- Familiarity with event and marketing tech (registration platforms, lead retrieval, mobile apps) and how event data flows into Salesforce and Marketo and lead management workflows.
- Experience building operational frameworks or playbooks that let event programs scale.
- Developer, technical, or enterprise event experience is highly preferred; background in SaaS, developer platforms, cloud, or technology companies is an advantage.
- Comfort working in fast-moving environments where priorities can evolve.
Benefits
- Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life
- Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break
- Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work
- 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment)
- Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month
- PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy
- Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes
- Equity; we are a growing start-up and want all employees to have a share in the success of the company
- Docker Swag
- Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country
- Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris
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