Virtual Events Manager

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

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

Company

Perplexity develops products designed to help companies get work done more effectively.

What you will do

• Own virtual events end to end, from program strategy and calendar planning through speaker preparation, rehearsals, live production, follow-up, and retrospectives.
• Host, moderate, present, and demonstrate products through onboarding programs, launches, feature deep-dives, customer conversations, and use-case workshops.
• Build relationships with Product, Engineering, Research, Sales, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Marketing to identify and prepare subject-matter experts.
• Partner with Growth and go-to-market teams on promotion plans, audience development, registration growth, experimentation, and post-event nurture.
• Repurpose events into recordings, replays, clips, FAQs, demo flows, education materials, and sales follow-up.
• Build the operating system for the channel, including calendars, production checklists, run-of-show templates, readiness gates, contingency plans, scorecards, and reporting.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in virtual events, product marketing, customer education, demand generation, or a related field.
• Ability to learn technical products deeply and translate complex capabilities into clear, accurate live demonstrations.
• Polished on-camera presence and experience hosting, interviewing, moderating, or presenting to professional audiences.
• Strong cross-functional coordination skills, including recruiting and briefing busy subject-matter experts.
• Experience with full-funnel growth, audience segmentation, campaign testing, conversion, and post-event nurture.
• Analytical rigor, CRM and marketing automation experience, ROI measurement, and strong production judgment.

Culture & Benefits

• High-growth technology environment with complex products and high-velocity, ambiguous work.
• U.S. full-time benefits include equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter, and dependent care accounts.
• International full-time employees receive benefits tailored to their region of residence.
• Emphasis on rapid learning, continuous improvement, operational quality, and measurable business outcomes.