Field Marketing Manager (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA, United States — on-site

Compensation: Competitive base salary and meaningful equity; amount determined based on background, skills, and experience.

Company

hirify.global was founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM to make AI inference cheaper and faster and accelerate AI progress.

What you will do

• Own the global event engine for vLLM and hirify.global, including major conferences, flagship vLLM events, developer meetups, and partner activations.
• Manage event strategy, venues, sponsorships, budgets, speakers, registration, CRM capture, vendors, on-site operations, and post-event follow-up.
• Lead vLLM Conference US and vLLM Conference China, including venue planning, sponsorship packages, program committees, speakers, branding, vendors, and registration.
• Run the global vLLM meetup program and hirify.global-hosted events across the US, Europe, and APAC.
• Build event registration systems, landing pages, automated communications, check-in workflows, and CRM data flows.
• Develop scalable event playbooks and ecosystem partnerships with hardware vendors, cloud providers, model labs, and open-source foundations.

Requirements

• Proven ownership of conferences, enterprise events, or developer meetups with 500+ attendees from planning through on-site execution and follow-up.
• Hands-on experience with venue selection, sponsorships, budgets, vendors, speakers, registration, attendee communications, and on-site logistics.
• Experience setting up event registration, landing pages, and automated CRM lead capture using HubSpot, Marketo, Luma, or comparable tools.
• Experience measuring attendance, engagement, lead capture, pipeline influence, or partner outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent events and workstreams with strong attention to detail and urgency.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with sales, partnerships, engineering, executives, design, agencies, and external vendors.

Nice to have

• Experience with developer, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or open-source events.
• Experience managing global event portfolios across the US, Europe, and APAC.
• Experience designing sponsorship packages, building event playbooks, and developing scalable operating systems.
• Experience with PyTorch, AI infrastructure, developer tools, cloud, GPUs, or open-source communities.
• Existing relationships with cloud providers, hardware vendors, model labs, or open-source foundations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site role in San Francisco.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) company match.
• Visa sponsorship is available on a case-by-case basis.
• Meaningful equity included in offers.