Events Lead (Fintech)

Location: Remote - United States; candidates must maintain a home base in the country where they are hired. Regular international travel is required.

Salary: $155,000–$215,000 estimated annual base salary, plus equity.

Company

Sardine provides an agentic risk platform that helps organizations prevent fraud, AI-driven attacks, and financial crime while automating fraud and AML operations.

What you will do

• Own the global events calendar, including conferences, tradeshows, SardineCon, executive dinners, happy hours, and partner events.
• Lead end-to-end planning and execution, including sponsorships, budgets, venues, vendors, logistics, production, staffing, and on-site delivery.
• Evaluate event opportunities across industries, audiences, regions, and formats, prioritizing measurable business impact.
• Develop pre-event playbooks and coordinate sales, marketing, product, executives, agencies, and vendors.
• Track attendance, target-account engagement, meetings, pipeline, influenced revenue, and ROI; lead post-event retrospectives.
• Manage the events budget and external partners while building an internal events team and scalable operating processes.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading B2B events or field marketing programs, ideally in enterprise SaaS, fraud prevention, AML, fintech, cybersecurity, or a related industry.
• Experience managing a high volume of events across multiple regions and formats.
• Strong understanding of event-driven pipeline and revenue generation, including ROI measurement and sales partnership.
• Excellent project management, operational, cross-functional leadership, negotiation, and vendor-management skills.
• Experience with CRM, marketing automation, and event management tools.
• Willingness to travel regularly, including internationally, and to work remotely from the United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with flexible working practices and no office attendance requirement.
• Performance-focused environment emphasizing ownership and sustainable work-life balance.
• Equity, early exercise for options, flexible paid time off, and a year-end break.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Home-office setup, meal, social meet-up, health and wellness, and learning stipends.
• US and Canada employees receive 401(k) or RRSP matching and a company-provided MacBook Pro.