Virtual Events Manager

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, United States

Salary: $125,000–$140,000 per year plus equity; USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions, while international salaries are set according to the local market.

Company

Perplexity develops products that help companies get work done and enables users to understand and apply those products.

What you will do

• Own virtual events end to end, including program strategy, calendar planning, briefs, speaker staffing, rehearsals, live production, follow-up, and retrospectives.
• Build onboarding programs, product launches, feature deep-dives, customer conversations, and use-case workshops.
• Host, moderate, present, and demonstrate products live, translating complex capabilities into clear and accurate stories.
• Identify, recruit, brief, and coordinate subject-matter experts across Product, Engineering, Research, Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Marketing.
• Partner with Growth, Lifecycle, Social, Communications, Sales, and Customer Success on promotion, audience development, experimentation, and post-event nurture.
• Measure registration, attendance, engagement, activation, qualified pipeline, revenue, costs, and channel ROI; create templates, checklists, readiness gates, contingency plans, scorecards, and reporting processes to scale the channel.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in virtual events, product marketing, customer education, demand generation, or a related role, ideally at a high-growth technology company, or demonstrable equivalent skills regardless of title.
• Ability to learn technical products deeply and translate complex capabilities into simple, specific, and accurate live demonstrations.
• Polished and credible on-camera presence, with experience hosting, interviewing, moderating, or presenting to professional audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to find, recruit, brief, and coordinate busy experts without formal authority.
• Full-funnel growth expertise, including registration strategy, audience segmentation, campaign testing, conversion, and post-event nurture.
• Analytical rigor, including defining channel metrics, working with CRM and marketing automation data, and calculating return on investment.
• Strong production judgment and attention to detail covering rehearsals, technical readiness, live moderation, and fallback planning.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar products and domains quickly and improve rapidly.
• Comfort delivering clarity in high-velocity, ambiguous environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in San Francisco or New York City.
• U.S. full-time employees receive equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care benefits.
• Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive benefits tailored to their region of residence.
• The role focuses on building a virtual events engine from the ground up in a high-growth technology environment.