Event/Field Marketing Manager (AI)

Location: SF Bay Area, California, United States; on-site at the downtown San Francisco office. Must be based in or willing to relocate to the SF Bay Area. Willingness to travel for conferences and events and work some evenings and weekends is required.

Company

hirify.global is an AI evaluation platform founded by researchers from UC Berkeley's SkyLab, helping researchers, enterprises, and independent developers understand how AI models perform in real-world workflows.

What you will do

• Own the event and field marketing strategy, including the annual calendar, budget, goals, and performance reporting.
• Plan and run community meetups, model-launch gatherings, researcher and developer dinners, workshops, VIP experiences, and conference programs end to end.
• Lead sponsorships, booths, side events, speaking slots, and on-site coordination at AI research and industry conferences.
• Build repeatable playbooks for planning, vendor and venue selection, run-of-show, staffing, follow-up, and program scalability.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Community, Research, Comms, Partnerships, and Sales to align events with launches, campaigns, target accounts, and relationship development.
• Manage budgets, contracts, vendors, venues, swag, travel logistics, event content, and success metrics including attendance quality, user activation, influenced pipeline, and sentiment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in event marketing, field marketing, or experiential marketing, ideally at a technology company in AI, developer tools, SaaS, or data-driven products.
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to the SF Bay Area and work on-site at the downtown office.
• Track record of planning and executing events of different sizes, from intimate VIP dinners to large conference programs, on time and within budget.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, venues, contracts, and detailed event logistics.
• Experience marketing to technical audiences such as researchers, engineers, and developers.
• Ability to measure event performance and connect it to community growth, user activation, and pipeline.
• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills and comfort representing hirify.global in person.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, iterate quickly, work proactively and independently, and demonstrate strong ownership, prioritization, organization, and attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel, work some evenings and weekends, and independently handle on-site freight, shipment receiving, sponsorship setup, and other hands-on logistics.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or machine learning conferences, research communities, or developer events.
• Background in communities, platforms, or products with network effects.
• Experience hosting enterprise or executive events with Sales or Partnerships teams.
• Familiarity with event attribution, lead capture, and follow-up workflows.
• Experience explaining scientific methodology and complex systems to target audiences.
• Familiarity with Notion, Google Drive, Luma, Figma, or similar tools.
• Prior startup experience.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site role in a small, mission-driven team working on cutting-edge AI.
• Health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
• Culture emphasizing transparency, trust, craftsmanship, curiosity, and community impact.
• Equal employment opportunity and commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
• Competitive compensation aligned with the candidate's market, experience, and work location.