The Events Marketing Manager owns Protege's events strategy and growth marketing foundation, ensuring our team shows up at the right conferences, with the right people, at the right time. This role transforms our event opportunities into a disciplined, revenue-driving playbook that connects buyers and partners with Protege across our different verticals and AI communities.

The role requires a blend of operational excellence in event execution, marketing operations fundamentals, and startup growth mindset to test & build scalable systems from scratch. You'll be the connective tissue between commercial teams, partnerships, the Protege Data Lab, and Marketing—ensuring every touchpoint drives meaningful pipeline and brand visibility.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end execution of Protege's conference and events strategy across multiple verticals and customer/partner/relationship profiles
• Build and maintain our events playbook: prioritize conferences and events, coordinate logistics, manage budgets, and ensure calendars are stuffed with prospect meetings
• Partner with commercial and partnerships teams to execute pre-event demand generation and maximize on-site meeting pipeline
• Coordinate event presence, speaking opportunities, side events, and dinners that position Protege in the market
• Assist with marketing operations infrastructure: CRM integration, lead attribution, automated workflows, and reporting that connects events to revenue
• Support growth marketing initiatives including social media content, sales enablement materials, and vertical-specific collateral

About You

• You are a natural operations executor who thrives on coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• You love in-person events and the energy of conferences—meeting people energizes rather than drains you
• You are comfortable building systems from scratch with a bias toward testing, learning, and iterating rapidly
• You demonstrate scrappiness and resourcefulness in ambiguous startup environments
• You are a team player who can juggle competing priorities across sales, partnerships, and product teams
• You treat those around you with kindness

Required

• Prior experience planning and executing high-quality B2B conferences, events, or corporate dinners from start to finish
• Hands-on operator comfortable with logistics, vendor management, and being on-site at events
• Marketing operations fundamentals: experience with CRM systems (ie. HubSpot, Salesforce), basic attribution, and process automation
• Basic content creation skills (writing, design sensibility, video editing) to support campaigns
• AI tool fluency to create leverage for yourself and accelerate execution timelines
• Startup experience or an entrepreneurial equivalent
• Willingness to travel 2-3x per month to conferences and events

Bonus:

• Based in the SF Bay Area
• Experience in technical B2B marketing (ie. AI, data infrastructure, healthcare tech) or direct B2B sales
• Strong analytical skills (Excel, SQL, or analytics tools) for data-driven decision making
• Social media management experience with understanding of what resonates with technical audiences
• Product marketing or sales enablement experience creating vertical-specific collateral
• Track record understanding how marketing activities connect to revenue outcomes